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A School for Mind and Morals, September 3
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of
the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God
Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Revelation 15:3
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The great Architect has formed and fashioned the scenes of nature that
they may have an important bearing upon man’s intellectual and moral
character. These are to be God’s school to educate the mind and morals.
Here the mind may have a vast field for study in the display of the majestic
works of the Infinite One. The rocks are among the precious things of
earth, containing treasures of wisdom and knowledge. In the rocks and
mountains are registered the fact that God did destroy the wicked from
off the earth by a flood.
Men thought themselves wiser than God, and altogether too wise to
obey ... the statutes and precepts of Jehovah. The rich things of earth
which God had given them did not lead them to obedience, but away
from obedience, because they misused their choice favors of heaven, and
made the blessings given them of God objects to separate from God. And
because they became satanic in their nature, rather than divine, the Lord
sent the flood of waters upon the old world.
God is full of love and plenteous in mercy; but He will by no means
acquit those who neglect the great salvation He has provided. The long-
lived antediluvians were swept from the earth because they made void the
divine law. God will not again bring from the heavens above and the earth
beneath waters as His weapons to use in the destruction of the world; but
when next His vengeance shall be poured out against those who despise
His authority, they will be destroyed by fire concealed in the bowels of the
earth, awakened into intense activity by fires from heaven above. Then
from the purified earth shall arise a song of praise: “Blessing, and honour,
and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto
the Lamb for ever and ever.”
Revelation 5:13
. “Great and marvellous are
thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King
of saints.” And every one who has made the heavenly treasure the first
consideration, ... will join in the glad triumphant strain.
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