But upon the beasts too, and the green things of the
earth, and on all nature, the Spirit of God works. He is the Lord
and giver of life. Take only those four Psalms, the 8th, 18th,
29th, 104th, and learn from them what the old Jews thought of this
wonderful world in which we live.
'These all wait upon thee'--all living things by land and sea--'that
thou mayest give them meat in due season. When thou givest it them
they gather it. When thou openest thy hand they are filled with
good. When thou hidest thy face they are troubled. When thou
takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their
dust. When thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made, and
thou shalt renew the face of the earth.'
So again, in the world of man, God is the living Judge, the living
overlooker, rewarder, punisher of every man, not only in the life to
come, but in this life. His providence is a special providence.
But not such a poor special providence as men are too apt to dream
of now-a-days, which interferes only now and then on some great
occasion, or on behalf of some very favoured persons, but a special
providence looking after every special act of man, and of the whole
universe, from the fall of a sparrow to the fall of an empire.
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