“It needs, however,” says Chalmers, “the aid of philosophy to learn how unvarying nature is in all her processes--how even her seeming anomalies can be traced to a law that is inflexible--for what might appear at first to be the caprices of her waywardness, are, in fact, the evolutions of a mechanism that never changes--and that, the more thoroughly she is sifted and put to the test by the interrogations of the curious, the more certainly will they find that she walks by a rule which knows no abatement; and perseveres with obedient foot-step in that even course, from which the eye of strictest scrutiny has never yet detected one hair’s-breadth of deviation. It is no longer doubted by men of science, that every remaining semblance of irregularity in the universe is due, not to the fickleness of nature, but to the ignorance of man--that her most hidden movements are conducted with a uniformity as rigorous as fate--that even the fitful agitations of the weather have their law and principle--that the intensity of every breeze, and the number of drops in every shower, and the formation of every cloud, and all the occurring alternations of storm and sunshine, and the endless shiftings of temperature, and those tremulous varieties of the air which our instruments have enabled us to discover, but have not enabled us to explain--that still, they follow each other by a method of succession, which, though greatly more intricate, is yet as absolute in itself as the order of the seasons, or the mathematical courses of astronomy. This is the impression of every philosophical mind with regard to nature, and it is strengthened by each new accession that is made to science. The more we are acquainted with her, the more are we led to recognise her constancy, and to view her as a mighty, though complicated machine, all whose results are sure, and all whose workings are invariable!” Who is not filled with amazement in contemplating the power of the Almighty? Only let it be his will to set one of his agents loose, and the earth and all that it contains shall be burned up. Well may we tremble at the thought of that “wrath which is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men!” On those who believe not, the curse of Jehovah abides. Would that men considered how fearful a thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God! Convinced by the Holy Spirit of their guilt and danger, they would then fly to the only hope set before them in the gospel. “In vain we seek for peace with God By methods of our own: Jesus, there’s nothing but thy blood Can bring us near the throne. The threatening of thy broken law Impress our souls with dread; If God his sword of vengeance draw, It strikes our spirits dead. But thine illustrious Sacrifice Hath answered these demands; And peace, and pardon, from the skies, Came down by Jesus’ hands.”