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created this majestic universe and rules it. He is the only
Originator, the only originator of thoughts; thoughts sug-
gested from within not from without; the originator of
colors and of all their possible combinations; of forces
and the laws that govern them; of forms and shapes of
all forms. Man has never invented a new one; He is the
only Originator—He made the materials of all things; He
made the laws by which and by which only, man may
combine them into machines and other things which out-
side influence may suggest to him. He made character—
man can portray it but not "create" it, for He is the only
Creator.

He is the perfect artisan, the perfect artist. Everything
which he has made is fine, everything which he has made
is beautiful; nothing coarse, nothing ugly has ever come
from His hand. Even His materials are all delicate, none
of them is coarse. The materials of the leaf, the flower,
the fruit; of the insect, the elephant, the man; of the
earth, the crags and the ocean; of the snow, the hoar-
frost and the ice—may be reduced to infinitesimal par-
ticles and they are still delicate, still faultless; whether
He makes a gnat, a bird, a horse, a plain, a forest, a
mountain range, a planet, a constellation, or a diatom
whose form the keenest eye in the world cannot perceive,
it is all one—He makes it utterly and minutely perfect
in form, and construction. The diatom which is invisible
to the eye on the point of a needle is graceful and beau-
tiful in form and in the minute exquisite elaboration of
its parts it is a wonder. The contemplation of it moves
one to something of the same awe and reverence which
the march of the comets through their billion mile orbits
compels.

This is indeed a God! He is not jealous, trivial, ignorant,
revengeful—it is impossible. He has personal dignity—
dignity answerable to his grandeur, his greatness, his
might, his sublimity; He cares nothing for men's flatteries,