A Golden Thought | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 18, 1867

A Golden Thought.

NATURE will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their own history. The plant and the pebble go attended by their own shadows. The rock leaves its scratches on the mountain side; the river its bed in the soil; the animal leaves its bones in the stratum: the fern and the leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal; the falling drop makes its sepulchre in the sand or stone; not a footstep in the snow or along the ground but prints, in characters more or less lasting a map of its march; every act of man inscribes itself on the memories of his fellows, and on his own face. The air is full of sound, the sky of tokens; the ground is all memoranda, signatures, and every object is covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent.