ATOM, THE, A WITNESS TO GOD

Not only “day unto day, uttereth speech,” but, according to science,

there are innumerable voices in the world that also speak of God. A

writer finds such in the atom of matter:

How then came they to be what they are? These “myriad types of

the same letter”; these unhewn blocks from an unknown quarry;

more indestructible than adamant; the substratum of all the

phenomena of the universe; and yet, amid the wreck of all things

else, this infinitude of discrete atoms alone is found incapable

of change or of decay. Who preserves to them their absolute

identity, notwithstanding their infinite variety? Who endowed

them with their inalienable properties? Who imprest upon them

the ineffaceable characters which they are found to bear? At

what mint were they struck, on what anvil were they forged, in

what loom were they woven, so as to possess, as Huxley declares,

“all the characteristics of manufactured articles”?

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