Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8 - Ellen G. White

human guesswork.
To the really wise, scientific research opens
vast fields of thought and information. The ways of
God as revealed in the natural world and in His
dealings with man constitute a treasury from which
every student in the school of Christ may draw.
The real evidence of a living God is not merely
in theory; it is in the conviction that God has
written in our hearts, illuminated and explained by
His word. It is in the living power in His created
works, seen by the eye which the Holy Spirit has
enlightened.
Those who judge of God from His handiwork,
and not from the suppositions of great men, see His
presence in everything. They behold His smile in
the glad sunshine, and His love and care for man in
the rich fields of autumn. Even the adornments of
the earth, the grass of living green, the lovely
flowers of every hue, the lofty and varied trees of
the forest, the dancing brook, the noble river, the
placid lake, testify to the tender, fatherly care of
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