THE BEGINNINGS. 
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To give it motion. Self-existing Force 
Without beginning, having power to make 
From nothing something which can change its form 
But can not be destroyed, is far beyond 
The reach of finite minds to comprehend. 
We read the perfect universal law 
Which rounds the dewdrop, rules the distant stars, 
And guides the earth unerringly through space. 
Therein to find an attribute of God, 
Appealing to our senses by the truth 
That He who made the law, reveals Himself 
Thereby to all mankind who read it well. 
The never-broken link between First Cause 
And the beginning of existing things. 
Is constant as to all effects produced. 
But silent when we look beyond 
Or seek to know more than the law reveals. 
James Goodwin Batterson. 
