Are there proofs that God's forces are cooperating with ours? Many.
Gravitation holds us to the earth. We do not drift, all sides up
successively, in space or chaos. We never want a breath but there are
oceans of it rushing to answer our hunger for it.
But especially do we undertake all our more definite efforts with a
full expectation of the aid of the forces without us. Man takes to
agriculture with a relish that indicates that the soil and he are akin.
He expects all its energies to cooperate with him. He plants the grain
or seed expecting that all its vegetative forces will cowork with his
plans. Every energy of earth, air, water, and the far-off sun work
into his plans as if they had no other end in all their being. If a
man wants a house, he expects the solidity of the rock, all the
adaptations of wood that has been growing for a century, expects the
beauty of the fir tree, the pine, and the box to come together to
beautify the place of his dwelling.
There are other forces into which man can put his scepter of power and
hand of mastery. They all work for and with him. Does he want his
burdens carried? The river will convey the Indian on a log or the
armaments of the greatest nations. The wind fits itself into the
shoulder of his sail on the sea, and steam does more work on the land
than all the human race together.
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