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A Sign from God
“Were
God,
in
open
day,
before
[the
eyes
of
agnostics],
miraculously
to
suspend
the
laws
of
nature,
they
might
for
a
time,
perhaps,
be
impressed
and
confess
that
here
was
the
finger
of
God.
It
is
probable,
however,
that
this
impression
would
not
be
lasting.
For
in
His
ceaseless
support
and
maintenance
of
the
course
of
nature,
such
men
perceive
nothing
to
admire,
nothing
to
adore.
Were
the
hand
that
moves
all
worlds
to
arrest
the
sun
in
the
heavens
and
cause
him
to
stand
still
for
even
an
hour,
they
might
say,
‘This
is
the
Lord.’
But
the
sun
may
rise,
and
run
his
race,
and
duly
set
three
hundred
and
sixty-five
times
in
the
year,
and
nothing
is
said
or
thought
of
Him,
at
whose
rebuke
the
pillars
of
heaven
tremble,
and
by
whose
ordinance
the
everlasting
mountains
and
the
order of universal nature have their stability.”
-- William S. Plumer (1802-1880)
A Sign from God
“Were
God,
in
open
day,
before
[the
eyes
of
agnostics],
miraculously
to
suspend
the
laws
of
nature,
they
might
for
a
time,
perhaps,
be
impressed
and
confess
that
here
was
the
finger
of
God.
It
is
probable,
however,
that
this
impression
would
not
be
lasting.
For
in
His
ceaseless
support
and
maintenance
of
the
course
of
nature,
such
men
perceive
nothing
to
admire,
nothing
to
adore.
Were
the
hand
that
moves
all
worlds
to
arrest
the
sun
in
the
heavens
and
cause
him
to
stand
still
for
even
an
hour,
they
might
say,
‘This
is
the
Lord.’
But
the
sun
may
rise,
and
run
his
race,
and
duly
set
three
hundred
and
sixty-
five
times
in
the
year,
and
nothing
is
said
or
thought
of
Him,
at
whose
rebuke
the
pillars
of
heaven
tremble,
and
by
whose
ordinance
the
everlasting
mountains
and
the
order of universal nature have their stability.”
-- William S. Plumer (1802-1880)
