It is true that, according to tradition, that work was done a long time ago, “before the chimneys in Zion were hot, and ere the present years were sought out, and or ever the inventions of them that now sin, were turned; and before they were sealed that have gathered faith for a treasure.” [61] But the established processes of it continue, as his Grace of Argyll has argutely observed;—and your own work will be good, if it is in harmony with them, and duly sequent of them. Nor are even the first main facts or operations by any means inimitable, on a duly subordinate scale, for if Man be made in God’s image, much more is Man’s work made to be the image of God’s work. So therefore look to your model, very simply stated for you in the nursery tale of Genesis. Day First.—The Making, or letting in, of Light. Day Second.—The Discipline and Firmament of Waters. Day Third.—The Separation of earth from water, and planting the secure earth with trees. Day Fourth.—The Establishment of time and seasons, and of the authority of the stars. Day Fifth.—Filling the water and air with fish and birds. Day Sixth.—Filling the land with beasts; and putting divine life into the clay of one of these, that it may have authority over the others, and over the rest of the Creation. Here is your nursery story,—very brief, and in some sort unsatisfactory; not altogether intelligible, (I don’t know anything very good that is,) nor wholly indisputable, (I don’t know anything ever spoken usefully on so wide a subject that is); but substantially vital and sufficient. So the good human work may properly divide itself into the same six branches; and will be a perfectly literal and practical following out of the Divine; and will have opposed to it a correspondent Diabolic force of eternally bad work—as much worse than idleness or death, as good work is better than idleness or death. Good work, then, will be,— A. Letting in light where there was darkness; as especially into poor rooms and back streets; and generally guiding and administering the sunshine wherever we can, by all the means in our power. And the correspondent Diabolic work is putting a tax on windows, and blocking out the sun’s light with smoke. B. Disciplining the falling waters. In the Divine work, this is the ordinance of clouds; [62] in the human it is properly putting the clouds to service; and first stopping the rain where they carry it from the sea, and then keeping it pure as it goes back to the sea again. And the correspondent Diabolic work is the arrangement of land so as to throw all the water back to the sea as fast as we can; [63] and putting every sort of filth into the stream as it runs. C. The separation of earth from water, and planting it with trees. The correspondent human work is especially clearing morasses, and planting desert ground.