THE EXPLAINING GOD 



To come to God entirely through 

 nature is impossible. Nor can it be 

 done by the steam engine or pianola. 

 There are extremes where God is 

 never found. Extremes are of man's 

 invention. The happy mean is 

 Divine. Neither the natural nor the 

 artificial has more of God in it than 

 the man who sees the one or uses the 

 other. The godless man can read no 

 divine message on the page of nature. 

 Neither can the godless man make, 

 by a machine, anything suggestive 

 of, or instinct with, spiritual power. 



The man who goes to nature with- 

 out God to explain what he may see, 

 on fair shining days, receives a physi- 

 cal impression. He may misjudge 

 and miscall it a spiritual blessing. If 



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