All nature is a beautiful and wonderful sacrament and display of God in His creative mood-a reflection of God and the material evidence of His creation. He can manifest Himself through it.

I found that He has ten thousand avenues of ap­proach to me beside the medium with which we are now conscious. He can come to me outside of the for­mal ways of church worship.-! have seen Him in a helpless babe with hands upon the circle of the breast and mouth pressed close for this its very life, more eloquent no sermon e’er could be. To me it is like a miracle, the instinct and hidden central urge to live which is basic. No mother ever taught him how to nurse.—

Then one day I saw Him smile in dash of silver wings against an azure sky in June. And often when I’m worn and tired in mind I feel Him move like music in the trees.

Or, He suddenly appears along the way in subtle breath of apple blossoms fair; in shining swords of grass which push their way through unresponsive clods of silent earth. How can I see creation in such mood and not feel God and see Him very near?

Every bit of it is highly symbolic, and the more we move into the Spirit and let God work in us, the more the Holy Spirit can interpret His creation and make it articulate to us. It will ‘come alive’ in spirit and vocal as He speaks to us. Have you met God like that when you could not meet Him in a sermon? God’s creation is beautiful because I trace Him in it, and· those who are in tune will be able to get some of these things.