For it is he that giveth the
power to get wealth. He gives it in two ways: First, God gives the
raw material; secondly, he gives the wit to use it.
You will all agree that God gives the first; that he gives the soil,
the timber, the fisheries, the coal, the iron.
Do you believe it? I hope and trust that you do. But I fear that
now-a-days many do not; for they boast of the resources of Britain
as if we ourselves had made Britain, and not Almighty God; as if we
had put the coal and the iron into the rocks, and not Almighty God
ages before we were born.
And if they will not say that openly, at least they will say, 'But
the coal, and iron, and all other raw material would have been
useless, if it had not been for the genius and energy of the British
race.'
Of course not. But who gave them that genius and energy? Who gave
them the wit to find the coal and iron?
God; and God gave it to us when we needed it, and not before.
Think of this, I beseech you; for it is true, and wonderful, and a
thing of which I may say, 'Come, and I will reason with you of the
righteous acts of the Lord.'
Men say, 'As long as England is ahead of the world in coal and iron
she may defy the world.
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