188 nature'* Miracles. 



there was no human eye to see it, those of us 

 who believe that nature is not a thing of 

 chance, but that it was planned by an intelli- 

 gence infinitely superior to that of any man, 

 can easily imagine that the Great Architect 

 and beautifier of this same nature, not only 

 plans but enjoys the work of His own hand. 

 Why not? For ages the same sun, in his daily 

 round, has reflected that beautifully colored 

 rainbow, here the product of sunshine and mist. 

 The same water, through these successive ages, 

 has been lifted to the clouds by the power 

 of the sun's rays, and has been carried back 

 to the fountain-heads on the wings of the 

 wind, and there has been condensed into rain- 

 drops, that have fallen on land, lake and river, 

 and in turn has been carried over this same 

 waterfall in its onward course toward the sea, 

 only again to be caught up into the clouds; 

 and thus through an eternal round it has been 

 kept moving by that mighty engine of nature, 

 the sun. It is said that " the mill will never 

 grind with the water that has passed." This 

 is true only in poetry. As a matter of fact, 

 " the water that has passed " may often return 

 to help the mill to grind again. 



Water-powers have been utilized in a small 

 way for many years for the purpose of gen- 

 erating electricity through the medium of the 

 dynamo, but nowhere in the world has the ap- 

 plication of the force been made for this pur- 



