are in a state of consciousness and nothing more.  They live, they breath, they have their being, but the great mysteries which surround them, the wonderful problems of life, are as nothing to them.  Then again there is the mind that has reached the height of reason, and to that mind what a vast world has opened before it.  The wonderful works of an all-wise Creator, the mysteries of nature that are so perplexing, are all open for the investigation of the reasoning thinking mind.

“The venomous insect beneath our feet, and the noblest and best of our domestic animals; the terrible forces of the earth, the tornado and volcano; the gently murmuring spring and the boisterous ocean; the forest monarch and the pale forget-me-not within its shade, are all witnesses of a creative power.”

From the animalculae up to Gods noblest work, man, there is the evidence of an all-ruling power and intelligence.  Interwoven and interlined through all nature’s great mysteries there is the mark of an invisible hand and all-seeing power, which rules and guides the universe.

     “That very law which moulds a tear
       And bids it trickle from its source,
     That law preserves the earth a sphere
       And guides the planets in their course.”

It is by reason and investigation that we are permitted to partially understand the strange mysteries of a wonderful world.  Each one must reason for himself or what better are they intellectually, than the child who only sees and cannot understand?  Had it not been for investigation and reason, we would still have believed the earth to be flat, and in the rising and setting of the sun.

There is a law governing all things.  There is a connecting link between earth, air and sea, between flowers, beasts and birds, between mankind and all animals, and inanimate things, a mysterious joining of mind to matter.  It is an intangible something, perhaps an electrical current, but certain it is that the line is there and unbroken, and between every human creature whom God has made, there is the same unbroken chain, which can be followed up link by link, step by step, until we find ourselves on the boundaries of the next world and perhaps beyond; who can tell?  The chain may be unbroken even then.

What matters it if I do not believe?—­perhaps because I do no not understand your creeds, your dogmas.  What matters it if I do not interpret the working of Gods ways in the same manner which you do?

There is the same principle guiding us all, and we bow the head reverently to the one God who “is the same yesterday, to day and forever.”