Dr. Abbott tells how, after sailing on the muddy waters of Lake
Huron, he came on deck one morning, and, looking over the prow,
started back in instinctive terror, for, looking down into the
clear waters of Lake Superior, it seemed as if the keel were
just going to strike on the sharp pointed rocks below; but he
was looking through fifty or sixty feet of clear water at the
great rock-bed of the lake. Now we endeavor in vain to fathom
God’s judgments. As by a great deep they are hidden from us. But
by and by the sea will grow as clear as crystal, and through
the mystery we shall see and shall understand. We shall know
not only the life that was in the ocean, but shall trace the
footprints of Him that walked thereon.
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