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through such revelation as He may have made of 

 Himself to the human mind. 



2. In studying natural things we must keep before 

 our minds the certainty that the laws which we can 

 ascertain have no validity except as expressions of 

 the power behind nature. Consequently the reference 

 of any effect to a secondary cause or the ascertaining 

 of the law of operation of such cause in no respect dimi- 

 niJpTes the dependence of the whole on the Divine will. 



3. While we are justified in taking an anthropo 

 morphic view of the operations of God as being our 

 selves spiritually in His image, we must bear in mind 

 that in many important respects He must infinitely 

 transcend us and our modes of thought. To Him 

 time and space are not limitations as to us, and the 

 microscopically small may be relatively as great as 

 that which seems to us almost infinitely large. It is 

 sometimes represented as derogatory to God that He 

 should paint the petals of flowers ; but with Him this 

 is not painting. He deals with things invisible to the 

 human painter, with the individual cells, with the 

 pigment which they contain, with the arrangement of 

 the atoms and molecules that make the pigment. 

 To Him the arrangement of a multitude of atoms to 

 make a microscopic dot of pigment must be neither 

 a greater nor less work than the ordering of a system 

 of worlds. The immensity of the universe can in no 

 respect distract His attention from the humblest 

 atom, because He is present and efficient in all. 



