There are times when this seems but a poor nation: boastful, corrupt, violent, and preparing, as it is now, to steal another country by fraud and war; yet the stars on the flag always make me happy and confident.

Do you see the constellations swinging above us, such unimaginable vastnesses, not roving or crashing through the illimitable at haphazard, but moving in more excellent measure, and to a finer rhythm, than the most delicate clockwork man ever made?
The great ocean-lines mark our seas with their paths through the water; the fine brains of the earth are behind the ships that sail from port to port, yet how awry the system goes! When does a ship come to her harbor at an hour determined when she sailed?
What is a ship beside the smallest moon of the smallest world?
But, there above us, moons, worlds, suns, all the infinite cluster of colossi, move into place to the exactness of a hair at the precise instant.

That instant has been planned, you see; it is part of a system--and can a system exist that no mind made?
Think of the Mind that made this one! Do you believe so inconceivably majestic an Intelligence as that could be anything but good?
Ah, when you wonder, look above you; look above you in the night, I say," he cried, his hand upraised like his transfigured face.

"Look above you and you will never fear that a sparrow's fall could go unmarked!" It was not to the stars that she looked, but to the orator, as long as he held that pose, which lasted until a hard-ridden horse came galloping down the street.

As it dashed by, though the rider looked neither to right nor left, Miss Betty unconsciously made a feverish clutch at her companion's sleeve, drawing him closer to the hedge.
"It is my father," she said hurriedly in a low voice.