p. 119 | God in Nature

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1872

God in Nature.

No one has a better opportunity of witnessing the wonderful workings of God in the wide field of nature than a farmer. His occupation brings him every day in full view of them. He is familiar with the progressive development of the young plant, and the matured beauty of its full growth. He is well acquainted with the sunshine and the shadow, the softly falling dew and the heavy rain, the gentle breeze and the rushing tempest. Some, from their very familiarity with these evidences of divine wisdom, lose all interest in them, and look on them with little more regard than the beasts that perish. Others, indeed, recognize the hand of God; look on its movements with awe and dread—but go no further. But it is only the Christian that can see in everything the hand of a father. Other men may wonder and admire; he can love and praise. Everywhere around he sees the finger of God, and he rejoices to know that that God is his friend; and when, in the tempest or thunderstorm, men's hearts are failing them for fear, he can be in peace, knowing that he is a son of Him whom the winds and the seas obey. Truly, the Christian farmer possesses greater pleasures and more exquisite joys than other men have any idea of, and if they have not experienced these, they have never met true happiness. Reader, have you?