In compassion He makes the horse to bear our burdens and the cow to supply the dairy; and He gives us the faithful hen.  He makes the fishes to scour the sea for food and then yield themselves up to the table; He sends the bee forth to gather sweets for man and birds to sing his cares away.  He paints the skies with the gray of the morning and the glow of the sunset; He sets His radiant bow in the clouds and copies its colours in myriad flowers.  He gives to the babe a mother’s love, to the child a father’s care, to parents the joy of children, to brothers and sisters the sweet association of the fireside, and He gives to all the friend.  Well may the Psalmist exclaim, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handywork.  Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”  Surely everything that hath breath should praise the Lord.

It would seem that a knowledge of nature would be sufficient to convince any unprejudiced mind that there is a designer back of the design, a Creator back of the creation, but, for a reason which I shall treat more fully in a future lecture, some of the scientists have become materialistic.  The doctrine of evolution has closed their hearts to the plainest of spiritual truths and opened their minds to the wildest guesses made in the name of science.  If they find a piece of pottery in a mound, supposed to be ancient, they will venture to estimate the degree of civilization of the designer from the rude scratches on its surface, and yet they cannot discern the evidences of design which the Creator has written upon every piece of His handiwork.  They can understand how an invisible force, like gravitation, can draw all matter down to the earth but they cannot comprehend an invisible God who draws all spirits upward to His throne.

The Bible’s proof of God becomes increasingly necessary to meet the agnosticism and atheism that are the outgrowth of modern mind-worship.  I shall speak of the Bible in my second lecture; I refer to it here merely for the purpose of pointing out the harmony between the spoken word and the evidence furnished by God’s handiwork throughout the universe.  The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

The Christ of whom the Bible tells furnishes the highest evidence of the power, the wisdom, and the love of Jehovah.  He is a living Christ, present to-day in the increasing influence that He exerts over the hearts of men and over the history of nations.

We not only have God in the Bible and God in nature but we have God in life and accessible to all.  It is not necessary to spend time in trying to comprehend God—­a task too great for the finite mind; we can “taste and see that the Lord is good.”  We can test His grace and prove His presence.  The negative arguments of the atheist and the indecision of the agnostic will not disturb the faith of one who daily communes with the Heavenly Father, and, by obedience, lays hold upon His promise.