The order which is observable in the natural world teaches no doubt a great and precious lesson to the man who already has a firm faith in the Living God; it teaches him that order is a law of the Divine Mind. But for thousands upon thousands of human beings, who have indistinct and fluctuating ideas of God, in all countries and in all generations, and not by any means least in our own, the order of nature paralyzes the spiritual sense. Perhaps, if it were possible to watch a fellow-creature continuing undeviatingly a single movement during a period of twenty years, we should come to look at him also as a machine which worked unconsciously, instead of as a free agent who might at any moment hold his hand.
26Kung ang sinuman sa inyo ay waring relihiyoso at hindi niya pinipigil ang kaniyang dila, subalit dinadaya niya ang kaniyang puso, ang kaniyang relihiyon ay walang kabuluhan. 27Ang dalisay at walang dungis na relihiyon sa harapan ng Diyos Ama ay ang pagdalaw sa mga ulila at sa mga babaeng balo sa kanilang paghihirap.