Many times we are willing to take a rebuke from Nature which we would resent did it come from almost any other source. We know very well that the inanimate manifestation about us is not prejudiced or biased in any personal way. Nature is faithful even to the fearful exactness of her laws-cruel at times and again marvelously tender. How hard it would be to reconcile her extreme, radically opposed manifestations, did we not remember Romans 8:22:
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."
This bondage is seen everywhere. Nature is impersonal, and when we are honest enough to receive them, her warnings and rebukes are ever to our profit. Her methods are unique-always screening her self behind the strength and beauty of her message. She is greater than any one or the sum total of the accidents and expressions of her manifold moods. The universe of visible things has no faculty of speech—no articulate language, and yet she has power to declare the glory of God and admonish by rebuke the careless heart of a human being. It is the silent witness appealing to the heart of man in a way not less, but, when understood, even more forcible than any audible voice which drives conviction home to our hearts.