When the wild crabapple puts forth blossoms, Nature sermons presched, , Ill . s and mercy and love,however doubtful about personality and will,every man of sanity recognizes Jehovah. Itis this God, the Eternal Force, of whom I speakto-day. God is present everywhere and all the back through the ages, following thepaths which students have marked out in theirinvestigations in different fields, we everywherecome across the mighty Jehovah in His work-shop ; we find Him busy everywhere, He standsat the beginning of things. The fields are pro-ducing their harvests of corn and
When the wild crabapple puts forth blossoms, Nature sermons presched, , Ill . s and mercy and love,however doubtful about personality and will,every man of sanity recognizes Jehovah. Itis this God, the Eternal Force, of whom I speakto-day. God is present everywhere and all the back through the ages, following thepaths which students have marked out in theirinvestigations in different fields, we everywherecome across the mighty Jehovah in His work-shop ; we find Him busy everywhere, He standsat the beginning of things. The fields are pro-ducing their harvests of corn and wine and oil,and there would be no harvests if there wereno fields where the sun graciously shines andthe showers moisten the earth. But the fieldsrefuse to accept responsibility. There wouldbe no fields if continents had not been thrownup out of the water, and there would have been174 GOD THE ETERNAL FORCE no continent if there had been no earth, andthere had been no earth if there had been nosolar system, and there had been no sun andbrood of planets if there had been no star-dust. WORKSHOP OF THE MIGHTY JEHOVAH or space filled with surging atoms, and therehad been no surging atoms if there had beenno energy, and there had been no energy ifthere had been no God. We have reached theend and the beginning. We are standing bythe side of God the Eternal Force and look-175 GOD THE ETERNAL FORCE ing toward the future, and we follow the mar-vels of creation: star-dust and sun and planetand land and sea and field with waving grainand stalwart corn, because God was there andGod said that these things should be, and therecame to be what had not been. I walk out again into the presence of thepresent, the presence of things that are NOWbeing done. Here are trees on whose branchesSome One, a Mighty Force, is building fruit;here are gardens in which are being built vege-tables of many kinds by Some One not to becompared with or measured by any power ofman, the Omnipotent One; here are river
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