The Sun's Presence. THE Sun's presence is God's appointed authority, for all of nature's physical changes within the limits of the solar domain. He gives us every zephyr, every cooling breeze, every gale, every cloud, and every storm. He gives us every dewdrop, every raindrop, and every flake of snow. He gives us every brooklet, every river, every lake, and every inland sea. From him every leaf, every blade of grass, and every flower, receives its life, form, tint, and fragrance. The mountains fall before his face, A silent homage seem to pay. He speeds the floods their course to trace, And rolls the tempests on their way. He frets and calms the restless sea, And charms to life the frozen land; He warms the plain, and shades the lea, And fans the "burning desert sand." He crowned the mountain's lofty bourne, Still more wonderful, the Sun's absence gives us night, and with it a universe of more than a thousand million glittering orbs, some thousands of times larger than our Sun; and we may know that each, and every star to be, by birth and law divine, the center and ruler of an eternal empire of shining worlds. |