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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 27, 1867

AN ELEGANT EXTRACT.

AND as we look yet further, we find everything subject to law in like manner. A great part of our globe, for example, is occupied by water, which comes before us in various forms. Let us think of it for a moment. The ocean, with its rolling billows, filling the soul with the sense of vastness and power—the waterfall—the majestic river—the babbling brook—the calm, smooth lake, reflecting the clear blue sky—the mountain rill, like a silver thread—the gushing fountain: behold one form it assumes. Look again and it is solid rock; clear, transparent, crystal rock: again, and that rock has changed its form, and is floating in the air as vapor, and forming clouds of every shape, and colored by the setting sun, constituting the glory of the heavens. Look again, and in the form of sparkling dew it gems every flower and every blade of grass; or it descends as a refreshing shower, and in falling presents us with the rainbow. But in all its wonderful and beautiful changes, whether you gaze on foaming billows, or listen to the music of the murmuring rill; whether you watch the regularly recurring tide, or trace the rain drops down a pane of window glass;—every particular of it is influenced, in every form it assumes, and at every instant, by invariable law.—Dabney on Future Punishment, p. 26.