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works with electricity must be very careful to keep within safety limits and take every precau tion so that no contact with water, metal or oth er electrical conductor is possible. If the law is carefully obeyed then there is no danger of any damage, and the electricity serves as a mighty blessing in deed. But if this power, which can supply us with

a thousand blessings, is touched directly, or the laws are violat ed in any other way, then it will cause great injury and often death.

The Humility of God

An unchangeable factor in the preservation of human exis tence is the humility of God. This is one divine characteristic of which the average person is unaware. Human experience asso ciates the possession of great power with great pride, for this is the outworking they see in their own and other lives. When they view God’s exceeding might, they naturally assume that He is the proudest Being of all. But the Eternal One is not affected by riches and power as we are. Nothing has ever changed the perfection of His character, and nothing ever will. God is totally righteous, which excludes all pride. When the Saviour came to this earth, an important part of His mission was to reveal the Father as He really is. If the eter nal God was, in fact, a proud Being, then Christ would have had to walk this earth with equal pride, for a humble being can nev er accurately represent a proud one. But Jesus was in fact the humblest of the humble. He said: