Adaptation
In "The Natural Law in the Spiritual World," Professor Henry Drummond has a striking passage, in which he describes "the wonderful adaptation of each organism to its surroundings- of the fish to the water, of the eagle to the air, of the insect to the forest bed; and of each part of every organism- the fish’s swim-bladder, the eagle’s eye, the insect’s breathing tube." All these, he says inspire us with a sense of the boundless resources and skills of nature in perfecting her arrangements for the individual life. "Down in the last details the world is made for what is in it; and by whatever process things are as they are, all organisms find in surrounding nature the ample complements of themselves."
All this holds as one ascends the scale of being. Man finds every want met and need answered. It is as true of his mental as of his physical make-up. When we reach the apex of the pyramid of being we must hold that the same law obtains. Faith must have realities adjusted to its varying needs. For faith, the supernatural is the natural. It is faith’s medium, its native air. Therefore, the incomprehensible, instead of destroying or preventing faith, permits it. It creates faith. It demands faith. It is fate’s glory.
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Patience - Love suffereth long.
Kindness - And is kind.
Generosity - Love envieth not.
Humility - Love vaunted not itself, is not puffed up.
Courtesy - Doth not behave itself unseemly.
Unselfishness - Seeketh not her own.
Good Temper - Is not easily provoked.
Guilelessness - Thinketh no evil.
Sincerity - Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in truth.
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