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Only yesterday my boy asked me a curious question. He wanted to know why
so many millions of flowers and other beautiful things that men never
saw or will see, were created. I said that the very same thought was in
my own mind years ago, but at that time I could find no answer. But I
found the true solution since. The true solution is, that God is the
Beautiful One, and He naturally--it may be of divine necessity--has to
express Himself in forms of beauty. So He creates millions of beautiful
things that no man or angel will ever see. In so far as they do see
them, and their sense of beauty is developed thereby, that is good, but
it is secondary. The primary thing is, that the Infinitely Beautiful One
naturally expresses Himself--perhaps must express Himself--in
beautiful forms.
I have seen the potter working at his wheel; and it is wonderful to see
the beautiful effects he can produce. He can take a lump of clay, and
from that shapeless mass of matter he can make vessels and ornaments of
rarest beauty. He has no machinery but that simple wheel, but by that
and the skillful movements of his hand, he can evolve beauty out of
chaos. It made me think of the way God evolved this beautiful world out
of chaos at first. There is this difference, that the potter uses
mechanical power, and he uses his hands, whereas God uses only His word
and will.
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