Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... The River Of God. F it were promised that you should see the River of God, would you not expect some great and wonderful sight? And if, then, some one led you to the window, and you saw the rain pouring down, would not you be much disappointed? "Why," you would say, "I see no river at all! I only see a great many drops of rain." Yes; but that is what the Bible (Psalm lxv. 9) calls "THE RIVER OF GOD, WHICH IS FULL OF WATER." Let us have a little talk about this wonderful river. And, first--I. Where Is Its Fountain? Every river, you know, has a spring or fountain--some pool or rocky cavern where it first springs up out of the deep dark earth. But where is the fountain from which the rain is fed? How is it that, however much rain comes pouring down from the sky, till it seems as if the clouds must rain themselves quite away, more clouds, full of rain, are always ready? The fountain of the rain is the great ocean. When the sun shines on the sea, especially in the Torrid Zone, it warms the water, and the water flies up into the air in invisible vapour or steam. So the air is always full of water, even when we cannot see a cloud in the sky. Then, when this steam gets high up in the air, where it is colder, it turns into little tiny drops, smaller than you can fancy, and these make the clouds. By and by these tiny little drops turn into larger drops, and fall down to the earth in rain. And thus it is that "the river of God is full of water." II. Where Does This River Flow? Other rivers flow along in channels of rock or earth; but the river of the rain flows through the air, confined by no banks. It flows above the mountains, north, south, east, or west, wherever the wind may carry it. And so it is ready to send down its refreshing streams on hill, or valley, or pl...
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