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There is this great difference between the works of men and the works of God, that the same minute and
searching investigation, which displays the defects and imperfections of the one, brings out also the
beauties of the other. If the most finely polished needle on which the art of man has been expended be
subjected to a microscope, many inequalities, much roughness and clumsiness, will be seen. But if the
microscope be brought to bear on the flowers of the field, no such result appears. Instead of their beauty
diminishing, new beauties and still more delicate, that have escaped the naked eye, are forthwith
discovered; beauties that make us appreciate, in a way which otherwise we could have had little
conception of, the full force of the Lord's saying, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they
toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon, in all his glory, was not
arrayed like one of these." The same law appears also in comparing the Word of God and the most
finished productions of men. There are spots and blemishes in the most admired productions of human
genius. But the more the Scriptures are searched, the more minutely they are studied, the more their
perfection appears; new beauties are brought into light every day; and the discoveries of science, the
researches of the learned, and the labours of infidels, all alike conspire

Alerxander Hislop 1916