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His gospel in the ears of every human being. He 

 might have given a tongue to every breathing of the 

 breeze, an articulate speech to every ray of light, and 

 sent them out with their ceaseless voices on the great 

 errand of His love. It was His power to do this. He 

 did not do it, because it was His will and pleasure to 

 put Himself under this law we have followed so far ; to 

 make men His co-workers in this new creation, and co- 

 heirs with Him in all its joy and glory. So completely 

 has He made this law His rule of action, that, for 

 eighteen hundred years, we have not a single instance 

 in which the life and immortality which He brought 

 to light have been revealed to a human soul without 

 the direct and active participation of a human instru- 

 mentality. So completely have His meekest servants 

 on earth put themselves under this law, that not one 

 of them dares to expect, hope, or pray that He will 

 reveal Himself to a single benighted heathen mind 

 without this human co-working. 



Thus, begin where you will, in the flower oi the 

 field or the hyssop by the wall, and ascend from sphere 

 to sphere, until there is no more space in things and 

 beings created to draw another circumferential line, 

 and you will see the action and result of this great law 

 of Co-operative Activities. When I first looked within 

 the lids of that hollyhock and was incited to read 

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