From Nature to God

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The summer is smiling around, and trees and flowers return the smile. Many have the charms of country life around them all the year. Now the dwellers in the cities begin to seek the clear air and the beautiful surroundings of the country home. Well, here is a fresh call to remember the Creator. It is not only that astronomy displays His power and wisdom. You consider the lilies how they grow. As the charms and beauties of these “products of nature,” as we sometimes say, forgetting that nature is only a name for what God has made—as these attract and delight us, let us look up and think of our Father, the maker of all.

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