When we see the million rain-drops of the shower we say, with
reason, there must be one great sea from which all these drops
come. And when we see, as it were, countless drops and countless
rays of goodness scattered about in the world, a little good
in this man, and a little good in that, shall we not say,
there must be one great sea, one central sun of goodness, from
whence all human goodness comes? And where can that center
of goodness be, but in the very character of God Himself?
(Text.)--CHARLES KINGSLEY.
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