God has also given proof of His "eternal power and Godhead" by "the things that are made"--His glorious works in Creation. Listen to what a Red chief, far away in North America, said to a missionary the other day:-- "I have long lost faith"--this was his confession--"in the old paganism. They know I have not cared for the old religion. I have neglected it. And I will tell you, missionary, why I have not believed in our old paganism for a long time. [Illustration: NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS.] "I hear God in the thunder, in the tempest, and in the storm; I see His power in the lightning that shivers the trees into kindling-wood; I see His goodness in giving us the moose, the reindeer, the beaver, and the bear; I see His loving-kindness in giving us, when the south winds blow, the ducks and geese; and when the snow and ice melt away, and our lakes and rivers are open again, I see how He fills them with fish. I have watched these things for years, and I see how every moon of the year He gives us something; and He has so arranged it that, if we are only industrious and careful, we can always have something to eat. "So, thinking about these things which I had observed, I made up my mind years ago that this Great Spirit--so kind and so watchful and so loving--did not care for the beating of the conqueror's drum, or the shaking of the rattle of the medicine man. So for years I have had no religion. "Missionary, what you have said to-day fills my heart, and satisfies my longings. It is just what I have been expecting to hear about the Great Spirit. I am glad you have come with this wonderful story; stay as long as you can." [Footnote: From _By Canoe and Dog-Train_, p. 119.] Nothing more than the fact that man was made, not like even an angel or an archangel, but in the image of God, is needed to show how far beyond and above every creature he was; and, as no creature owed so much to the Creator, none was responsible to Him in the same way. No one had any right over him except the One who had made him for Himself, his Creator, without whom he would not have been. "The ox knoweth its owner, and the ass his master's crib." (Isa. i. 3.) God has made the animals faithful and affectionate, and there are many true and touching stories of the way in which they have attached themselves to those who have cared for them. A dog will devote itself to its own master, and even give its life for him; but no mere animal has that within him which can have to say to God and be in relationship with Him. And how sad it is to think that the only creature of God who could know Him is the one who has turned away from Him and listened to the spoiler!