Who knows how frequently they come? We,
for whose sake all nature stands "and stars their courses move," may
need more frequent motherly attentions than the infant knows of. They
will not be lacking, even if not sufficiently evident to the infant to
be cried for. "Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things."
(3) It is here designed to be asserted that the forces of the invisible
seek to be continually in full play on the intellectual and moral
natures of man. Our unique Christian Scriptures have this thought for
their whole significance. It begins with God's walking with Adam in
the garden, and goes on till it is said, "Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you," in the invisible, and by
the invisible, from before the foundation of the visible world. It
includes all time and opportunity between and after; we need specify
only to intensify the conception of the fact. Paul says, "Having
therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day," when
otherwise oppressive circumstances and hate of men seeking to kill him
would have prevented his continuing in life. It is possible for all
who believe to be given power, out of the invisible, to become sons of
God. It has been said that there is power and continuousness enough in
the tides, winds, rotating and revolving worlds for man to make a
machine for perpetual motion.
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