“Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air,
and they shall tell thee; or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and
the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these
that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?” --Job xii. 7-9.
O for an understanding heart and a spiritual mind to read God’s book of
nature as Job read it, deriving holy instruction from every page written on it
by its Creator’s hand! We have received not only such “handwriting on the
wall” of creation as Job saw, but the “interpretation thereof” in the “volume
of the Book;” how diligent, then ought we to be to grow in grace and
knowledge by all those means which God has so richly bestowed on us! All
the objects of nature may remind us of teachings in God’s Word, if we have
but the heart to receive them. The beasts of the field, the sheep and
lambs, may remind us how we “like sheep have gone astray,” or may speak
to us of Him who is “the Lamb of God.” The ravens tell of His care, who
provides for those who are “better than the fowls;” the sparrows tell us that
“not one of them is forgotten before God,” and we “are of more value than
many sparrows.” The lovely lilies say to us, “Why take ye thought for
raiment?” And the grass, so green to-day, so quickly cut down and
withered, tells us to remember “all flesh is grass, and all the goodliness
thereof is as the flower of the field.” Thus do Thou, O Lord, enable us to
read thy book of Nature by thy book of Revelation Norman Macleod
Muckle Kate Not a very ordinary name! But then, Muckle Kate, or Big Kate, or Kate-Mhor, or Kate of Lochcarron was not a very ordinary woman! The actual day of her salvation is difficult to trace to its sunrising, but being such a glorious day as it was, we simply wish to relate something of what shone forth in the redeemed life of that "ill-looking woman without any beauty in the sight of God or man." Muckle Kate was born and lived in Lochcarron in the county of Ross-shire. By the time she had lived her life to its eighty-fifth year she had well-earned the reputation of having committed every known sin against the Law of God with the exception murder. Speaking after the manner of men, if it took "Grace Abounding" to save a hardened sinner like John Bunyan, it was going to take "Grace Much More Abounding" to save Muckle Kate. However, Grace is Sovereign and cannot be thwarted when God sends it on the errand of salvation, and even the method used in bri
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