220 LIFE IN NATURE. 



instrument? What is it shows us becoming as its 

 constant law ; the loss of each thing for the being 

 of each other ; all giving itself for all ; life dying 

 that other life may be ; dying, but in that very 

 death most truly living? 



What fact is imaged here ? What is the keynote 

 of this mingled harmony ? Do we not hear it in 

 one word Redemption ? Of death, and life raised 

 up from death ; of life bestowed by death, and 

 perfected through it ; of sacrifice, which is the law 

 of being and the root of joy ; of these things Nature 

 speaks to us. She points us to her Maker, in Him 

 who gave His Son. 



