SCIENCE TRAINS TO SEE
Where the untrained eye will see nothing but mire and dirt (says Sir John Lubbock), science will often reveal exquisite possibilities. The mud we tread under our feet in the street is a grimy mixture of clay and sand, soot and water. Separate the sand, however, as Ruskin observes—let the atoms arrange themselves in peace according to their nature—and you have the opal. Separate the clay and it becomes a white earth, for the finest porcelain; or if it still further purifies itself you have a sapphire. Take the soot, and if properly treated it will give you a diamond. While, lastly, the water purified and distilled, will become a dew-drop or crystallize into a lovely star. Or, again, you may see in a shallow pool either the mud lying at the bottom or the image of the sky above.—Public Opinion.
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Scripture—See [Conscience].
Scripture and Experience—See [Interpretation by Experience].
SCRIPTURE FOR ALL OCCASIONS
If you have the blues read the Twenty-seventh Psalm.
If your pocketbook is empty read the Thirty-seventh Psalm.
If people seem unkind, 1 John 4.
If you are discouraged about your work, 126th Psalm.