nt, by a train of causes and effects which reaches back to
the very creation of the universe. The grain of dust can no more go
from God's presence, or flee from God's Spirit, than you or I can.
If it go up to the physical heaven, and float (as it actually often
does) far above the clouds, in those higher strata of the atmosphere
which the aeronaut has never visited, whither the Alpine snow-peaks
do not rise, even there it will be obeying physical laws which we
term hastily laws of Nature, but which are really the laws of God:
and if it go down into the physical abyss; if it be buried fathoms,
miles, below the surface, and become an atom of some rock still in
the process of consolidation, has it escaped from God, even in the
bowels of the earth? Is it not there still obeying physical laws, of
pressure, heat, crystallisation, and so forth, which are laws of God-
-the will and mind of God concerning particles of matter? Only look
at all created things in this light--look at them as what they are,
the expressions of God's mind and will concerning this universe in
which we live--"the Word of God," as Bacon says, "revealed in facts"-
-and then you will not fear physical science; for you will be sure
that, the more you know of physical science, the more you will know
of the works and of the will of God. At least, you will be in
harmony with the teaching of the Psalmist: "The heavens," says he,
"declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.
There is neither speech nor language where their voices are not heard
among them." So held the Psalmist concerning astronomy, the
knowledge of the heavenly bodies; and what he says of sun and stars
is true likewise of the flowers around our feet, of which the
greatest Christian poet of modern times has said--

To me the meanest flower that grows may give
Thoughts that do lie too deep for tears.

So, again, you will be in harmony with the teaching of St. Paul, who
told the Romans "that the invisible things of God are clearly seen
from the creation of the-world, being understood by the things that
are made, even His eternal power and Godhead;" and who told the
savages of Lycaonia that "God had not left Himself without witness,
in that He did good and sent men rain from heaven, and fruitful
seasons, filling men's hearts with food and gladness." Rain and
fruitful seasons witnessed to all men of a Father in heaven. And he
who w