him, shewed him also that he belonged to another world--a spirit-
world; shewed him that when this world passed away, he should live
for ever; shewed him that while he had a mortal body, he had an
immortal soul too; shewed him that though his home and business were
here on earth, yet that, for that very reason, his home and business
were in heaven, with God who made the earth, with that blessed One
of whom he said, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the
foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; they all shall fade as a
garment, and like a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall
be changed; but Thou art the same, and THY years shall not fail.
The children of Thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall
stand fast in Thy sight." "As a garment shalt Thou change them,"--
ay, there was David's secret! He saw that this earth and skies are
God's garment--the garment by which we see God; and that is what our
forefathers saw too, and just what we have forgotten; but David had
not forgotten it. Look at this very 104th psalm again, how he
refers every thing to God. We say, 'The light shines:' David says
something more; he says, "Thou, O God, adornest Thyself with light
as with a curtain." Light is a picture of God. "God," says St.
John, "is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." We say, 'The
clouds fly and the wind blows,' as if they went of themselves; David
says, "God makes the clouds His chariot, and walks upon the wings of
the wind." We talk of the rich airs of spring, of the flashing
lightning of summer, as dead things; and men who call themselves
wise say, that lightning is only matter,--'We can grind the like of
it out of glass and silk, and make lightning for ourselves in a
small way;' and so they can in a small way, and in a very small one:
David does not deny that, but he puts us in mind of something in
that lightning and those breezes which we cannot make. He says, God