God speaks to us through his providential workings, and through the influence of his Spirit upon the heart. In our circumstances and surroundings, in the changes daily taking place around us, we may find precious lessons, if our hearts are but open to discern them.

So far as possible, let the child from his earliest years be placed where this wonderful lesson book of nature shall be open before him. Let him behold The glorious scenes painted by the Great Master artist upon the shifting canvas of the heavens.

In God's word only do we behold the power that laid the foundations of the earth, and that stretched out the heavens. In the word of God the mind finds subjects for the deepest thought, the loftiest aspirations. Here we may hold communion with patriarchs and prophets, and listen to the voice of the eternal as he speaks with men.

God never asks us to believe, without giving sufficient evidence upon which to base our faith. His existence, his character, the truthfulness of his word, are all established by testimony that appeals to our reason.

By his appointment, God has placed at his altar, an advocate clothed with our nature. Christ intercedes on behalf of those who have received him.

God's handiwork in nature is not God himself in nature. The things of nature are an expression of God's character and power but we are not to regard nature as god. I tell the story of Duke Reynald 111.

I saw the saints leaving the cities and villages, and associating in companies together, and living in the most solitary places. Angels provided them food and water.

It is not a single act by which we are saved or lost but the tenor of our life.

Holiness is not rapture it is an entire surrender to God.

Through a knowledge of God are given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness we need to study the revelations of himself that God has given.