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 when coal oil gives out? Electricity has now revealed an inexhaustible supply of light. In whatever field man has wrought, nature has been found replete in her provision, and all experience goes to show that she amply supplies, in the best way and forever, the developing needs of mankind, giving him more and better than he had hoped for. If nature is so perfect in her ministry to the external and lower desires of mankind, how much more must the spiritual world be able to satisfy the internal and higher desires!

The sense that tells us that nature could not have been started by fortune, nor continued by chance, nor perfected by selfish strife, reveals not only that there is an intelligent, designing, loving God, but also a world within the material, which gives shape and life to the natural world, and is able to serve with full satisfaction the aspirations that are planted in the spirit of man.