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Christ taught. “ If ye can give good gifts, how much 
more your Heavenly Father.” He does not define 
the “ how much more ” simply because it is indefin¬ 
able. 
Let us hold to this then as the dearest fact of 
life; we are in the hands of a Supreme Love, we walk 
in the air of a Divine Fatherhood. But let us repeat 
our question. “ Is it true that creation involves love ? ” 
If so, can the love of the Creator be confined to 
human beings alone ? Is He not the Creator of all 
things “great and small.” Look and see. It is of 
the essence of God that He changeth not. But in 
the far-back geological periods there were ages upon 
ages when the earth was being slowly prepared for 
the highest forms of life, when the creeping thing 
was made after his kind, and the cattle after his kind, 
was God, through all these ages, think you, a love¬ 
less God — His love only evolved when man was 
created ? Can you watch the bird build its nest in 
such wonderful fashion, shaping it not only with beak 
and claw but with its breast, as all true homes are 
shaped, and not see that it does so because a God of 
love hath willed it so? Can you listen to the enrap¬ 
tured song as the young birds are nursed into life, 
and not feel that the ancient words are true, “ Thou,” 
O God of love, “ sendest forth Thy Spirit, they 
are created.” Can you see a devotion deeper 
and stronger than life itself, without finding in it a 
parable of a higher love ? 
Do you know the story of George Stephenson 
and a bird ? One day he went into a room to close 
a window which had been open for some time. In a 
day or two afterwards he noticed a bird dash itself 
repeatedly against the window-panes. Immediately 
he went to see why it did so, and opened the window. 
The bird flew past him with a worm in its mouth 
and went straight to a corner of the room. Stephen¬ 
son followed it with his eyes and saw that a nest had 
been bunt mere. The bird took one look into the 
