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heat or electricity or some other form of the 

 same chain of forces. Nothing- of all this is 

 now made or destroyed, not even wasted. 



These things are now the commonplace 

 facts of science. The natural effect of them 

 on human thought would be, >that whereas we 

 once thought God created light alone, we now 

 know he must have created a wider fact of 

 which light is only a part. And with scien- 

 tific Christians this was the only effect the 

 change produced.. Would that it had been 

 left to this! 



How this view of the truth could lessen 

 anyone's adoring reverence of the Infinite 

 Source of all this wider force and profounder 

 power is difficult to understand; that it should 

 carry with it a tendency to atheism is incredi- 

 ble, for somewhere in that long chain of se- 

 quences the Creator's power must come in. 

 The normal effect upon our belief would be 

 expressed by such a statement as this: "'I 

 once believed God created a small fact; I now 

 see he must have created a whole system of 

 facts at once." 



