With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . bymeans of this vapor thatGod raises the moisture fromthe oceans and all bodies ofwater and from the earth,to fall again in gentle show-ers. But when this vaporhas been lifted up from theocean, you will see readily that if it were to descend again in rainupon the very places from which it had been lifted it would accom-plish no good. It is necessary that instead of falling back intothe ocean and into the lakes and rivers, it must be carried over theland. So you see that we might aptly compare the vapor t
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . bymeans of this vapor thatGod raises the moisture fromthe oceans and all bodies ofwater and from the earth,to fall again in gentle show-ers. But when this vaporhas been lifted up from theocean, you will see readily that if it were to descend again in rainupon the very places from which it had been lifted it would accom-plish no good. It is necessary that instead of falling back intothe ocean and into the lakes and rivers, it must be carried over theland. So you see that we might aptly compare the vapor to a greatpump, by means of which God lifts millions of gallons of waterevery hour from the sea into the atmosphere. Now just the same as men load grain and fruit and otherthings into the cars to ship them to some distant place, so God loadsthese vapors into the atmosphere or into the clouds. When theclouds are all loaded with vapor, or that which is to descend uponthe earth in the form of rain, God sends the winds, and thesewinds blow the clouds from over the ocean far inward over the. Steam Rising from Teakettle. RAIN. 165 land until they come to the place where God wants to pour themout in showers and rain, and in snow and blessing. But now, you will see that there is another difficulty. Whenall this vast quantity of water is held in the clouds, a mile or twoabove the earth, if it were to be poured out, it would come with such
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