When Professor Huxley was visiting the Highlands of Scotland, one day as he wandered over the moors, he picked up a moss-cup, and began to examine it with his magnifying glass.
A Highland shepherd came near and watched him with interest and curiosity. Mr. Huxley asked the man if he would like to see the moss-cup through the glass. As he looked, his eyes opened wide with wonder; presently he said, "Can this be a moss-cup?"
When he was assured that it was, he asked that he might see it again, and then, handing back the glass and the moss-cup, he said, "O sir, I wish you had never shown it me."
"Why?" asked Mr. Huxley in surprise. "Because I do tread upon thousands of them every day of my life."
Now that his eyes were opened to see what had before been hidden from him in this common, familiar object, it had become such a mystery of wonder that the thought of trampling on it seemed almost like sacrilege.
And so it is with everyone of the works of God's hands. The more we think upon them, and seek them out, and examine them, the more we shall realize that He does indeed "fill heaven and earth," (Jeremiah 23:24) and, "the whole earth is full of His glory." (Isaiah 6:3)--Present Truth, December 1, 1898.