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HE argument of the patriarch is based on the fact that the hand of God is to be traced everywhere in nature and in human life. The words of our text are a striking expression of the truth that I. THE EARTH IS A MATERIAL SYMBOL OF SPIRITUAL IDEAS. This thought has ever been dear to spiritual minds. They have loved to trace in visible nature suggestions regarding the invisible. It was pre-eminently characteristic of the Hebrews that they associated God with all natural phenomena. Nature was to them but a thin veil, behind which Deity stood half revealed, half concealed. Seas, skies, forests, mountains, fields, were but parts of a mighty harp whose music breathed messages from the Eternal and Infinite. When Christ came He added intensity to this idea, by connecting God with all natural life, in its most commonplace as in its grandest manifestations. The flight of the sparrow was as much of God as the circling orbit of a world. And so the idea took possession of the Christian Church that nature and Scripture are but two pages of one Revelation-that in nature, though more faintly traced, we may discover the same great truths as in the Gospel. Thus Tertullian, in the 2nd century, writes in his "Apology":-" Cast your eyes upon the Q |