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Consider the thoughts of Our Lord. One of the uses of the material world, as we learn from Wisd. xiii. and Rom. i., is to instruct us about God and raise our thoughts to Him. Our Lord shows us how to read spiritual lessons in every natural event, and to use every object as an occasion for glorifying God. The seed-time and the harvest, the sparrows and the lilies, the weeds amongst the corn, a debtor imprisoned, the grafting of vines, the catching of fish, the tending of sheep all these things He shows in a spiritual aspect. He makes them all exemplify God's dealings and convey lessons of holiness. So we should learn to regard all things in life with the spiritual eye, and by the supernatural light of God's countenance. The knowledge and culture of this age and its wonderful scientific discoveries are not merely for our material progress, but for that which is spiritual. Each subject is a new revelation of divine power and wisdom; each is a corroboration of our faith, a new claim on our service, a new reason for adoring and loving God. Always look below the material surface of things and seek there the action of God. In the many problems of life you will find that religion furnishes the only clue to their comprehension, and that the law of God is the only practical system of action, and the only remedy for the else incurable evils of the world.
