198 THE EARTH MADE READY FOR MAN 



how to get it out of the bed of the stream, how to use 

 it and how to get more of it. But it was the rain 

 water that found it first, and that brought it to Ught. 

 After that, when men came to value gold so much, 

 they learned to dig deep down into the ground, among 

 the mountains where it w^as stored, and get it out for 

 themselves. 



So rain water is not only helping to make the sur- 

 face of the earth more and more as God wills it to be, 

 but it is filling the storehouses of the earth and then 

 opening them up, showing us the bounties that God 

 has provided. 



''No thing shall ye lack," said one who trusted in 

 God. 



''No thing shall ye lack," says nature to us. 

 "Only learn to use aright the bounties that God has 

 stored away for you." 



