8 THE VERY 'GARMENT OF GOD' 



contemplation of these structures filled with 

 wonder at their perfection and with reverence 

 for the Power that conceived and brought about 

 their construction. No one can believe that 

 such things were created accidentally or by 

 chance; law appears in every organism, care 

 and design in every detail. Here is something 

 more than a mere crystallisation of like particles 

 from a liquid of a specific composition, wonderful 

 though that process is. Here we have thou- 

 sands upon thousands of exquisite forms each 

 one accurately reproduced or modified to meet 

 slightly altered conditions and to fit into 

 slightly altered surroundings. We have dif- 

 ferent forms of living matter from plants and 

 animals, we have dead or inorganic matter 

 snatched from its dead mass and converted by 

 this living matter into wondrously beautiful 

 structures. Can we believe that behind all this 

 design there is no great designer that, in 

 fact, this is not the very ' garment of God ' ? 

 An honest attempt to get at the truth is never 

 to be feared. Truth is truth, and may always 

 be sought fearlessly. Truth can never turn out 



