BEAUTY IN GOD'S WORLD: THE CLOUDS 9 



and wonderful, and sometimes almost terrible, but 

 did you know that they were more important to us 

 than anything else except the sunlight? When you 

 saw them go merrily across the sky you did not 

 think that they were hurrying to do God's service. 

 You never thought of the clouds as servants of God. 

 Y'et that is just what they are, — servants of God. 

 They have helped Him make the great wonderful 

 world what it is and they are still helping Him. 



Think again of all those beautiful and wonderful 

 things you saw last summer, and then think what 

 they would be like if the clouds did not do God's 

 bidding and give us rain. Can you think of any- 

 thing that would be happier or better with no rain 

 at all? 



It will be even more interesting to watch the 

 clouds now that you know how useful they are to us. 

 When you see the thick, white clouds rolling up from 

 the horizon, piling themselves upon one another, you 

 will think of them as God's servants getting ready to 

 send us rain. And when you see the white, fleecy 

 little clouds making shadows skip over the grassy 

 fields while they play at hide and seek with the sun, 

 you will feel very happy, for you will know that those 

 very skipping and dancing shadows are bringing 

 comfort to the flowers and the trees, and all the little 

 insects and birds that live among them, — and you 

 will think, ''God's servants, the clouds, are very 

 busy trying to help us this hot day." 



