The Microscope

The things with which we are most familiar, and which are nearest to us, we often never see properly. Is that not strange? Go to someone who has a microscope, and ask them to allow you to look through it at a drop of water. You will be very surprised to see scores of wriggling things moving about in it, insects so small that hundreds of them could pass through the eye of a needle in full marching order.

The Brahmins boast that they never take life. On one occasion one of these men saw a drop of water through a microscope, and was terribly alarmed to think that he had been swallowing hundreds of these insects every day. The next day he purchased a microscope and smashed it to pieces, thinking that by destroying the microscope there would be no more insects in the water, therefore he could continue to drink it.

The microscope also reveals to our astonished sight the charming beauty of a fly's wing, a spider's leg, a piece of chalk composed of hundreds of tiny shells, and numerous things which we never considered to be beautiful.

The Bible acts as a microscope. It reveals to us hidden things, it reveals also the hateful thoughts of the heart of man.- That is why some people do not read it—it pricks their conscience and disturbs them, for it shows that they are sinners and that "the wages of sin is death."

Some have wanted to do away with the Bible altogether, Like the Bramin, they try to think that if they destroy the "microscope" their sin will not be revealed, and that they will not receive its wages.

Best of all, the Bible reveals clearly to all who look well Into it, the wonderful love of God in sending His Son to die, that all who believe on Him might be saved from that tremendous thing called "sin."

The more we use our microscope, the Bible, the more we discover how great a thing sin is, and also how tremendous, wonderful, and beautiful is the love of God.