GOD'S WONDERFUL MOUNTAINS 



Do you remember about that mysterious force 

 which we called the force of God, and what it did to 

 the veins of quartz and gold that had been packed 

 away so carefully in God's underground store- 

 house? Would you like to hear more about that 

 mighty force? 



Of course not all the cracks and crevices in the 

 rocks are filled with quartz, and not all the veins of 

 quartz have Httle flakes of gold lying enclosed within 

 the crystalline mass. Neither does all the slate rock 

 have those pretty crystals of iron pyrites. Differ- 

 ent minerals are distributed in different places. 

 But in whatever rocks the minerals are, the under- 

 ground water finds them and carries them away to 

 be put in their proper places. 



There are many, many fissures throughout the 

 rocks which make up the world. Indeed, rocks 

 everywhere are full of them. Look and see for 

 yourselves how those that show above the surface 

 of the ground are crossed by cracks, small and large. 

 Those fissures that you see are empty except where 

 they are filled up by small pieces of rock, and by 

 earth and growing things. The surface water 

 enters the surface cracks and tends to make them 

 wider and deeper; but the underground water fills 

 up the deep-down fissures. 



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