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scend not only the wants of our little lives, but 

 the life of the globe itself. Yet each and all get 

 enough. The sun seems near to us, — is near by- 

 its power. The light that floods our houses, that 

 shines upon our fields, — how potent it is ! What 

 marvelous transformations it works! If the sun 

 did, indeed, shine for this world alone, and was 

 only just there behind the horizon as it seems, we 

 could not be better looked after. 



To all intents and purposes, God is and exists 

 for each one of us alone. His providence is exem- 

 plified in every movement of our lives. Out of 

 the abuse of this feeling or faith comes our arrogat- 

 ing to ourselves special providences, special inter- 

 ference in our petty afi'airs. But until the sun does 

 shoot some special ray for you, and the attraction 

 of gravity make some exception in your favor, 

 count not upon God's doing so. Our very life, the 

 beating of our very hearts, depend upon the sun, 

 not because the sun is special, but because the sun 

 is universal; not because it is adjusted and adapted 

 to us, but because we are adjusted and adapted to 

 it. Its bounty and power extend in every direction 

 alike; it shoots into the void myriads of rays as 

 vivifying as those that make our blood flow. The 

 same with this power we call God. In it we live 

 and move and have our being, but it is not an 

 attendant of our lives; we are an accident of it; it 

 is imminent to us, because it is imminent every- 

 where. Light was not made for the eye, but we 

 have eyes because there is light. The outwaid 



