Therefore would
they not fear, though the earth was moved, and though the mountains
be carried into the midst of the sea.
And we, too, need the same lesson in these scientific days. We too
need to fix it in our hearts, that the powers of nature are the
powers of God; that he orders them by his providence to do what he
will, and when and where he will; that, as the Psalmist says, the
winds are his messengers and the flames of fire his ministers. And
this we shall learn from the Bible, and from no other book
whatsoever.
God taught the Jews this, by a strange and miraculous education,
that they might teach it in their turn to all mankind. And they
have taught it. For the Bible bids us--as no other book does--not
to be afraid of the world on which we live; not to be afraid of
earthquake or tempest, or any of the powers of nature which seem to
us terrible and cruel, and destroying; for they are the powers of
the good and just and loving God. They obey our Father in heaven,
without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground, and our Lord Jesus
Christ, who came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And
therefore we need not fear them, or look on them with any blind
superstition, as things too awful for us to search into.
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