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felt an urge to go see it just to find out how high the water at the natural well was. The water was slightly below the top of the well. I walked through the vegetation and came upon the stone marker of a lone grave which I had seen many times. It was the burial place of a little girl who died there in the 1800’s while crossing the desert with her mother and father, pioneers of the West. My thoughts went back many decades, trying to visualize this family crossing the country, braving its hazards and hardships. A little girl, tired and dying in the desert, far from her own civilization of the time, alone. Alone, that is, except for her sarod val Where was God in that lonely moment? Was the Father-head indifferent to the plight of this little girl and her parents as they moved on westward, leaving her small body buried in a lone grave? And the parents, was there anything in life for them that would justify existence itself? Death awaited them also, as it awaits everything that lives. The happiest existence would be grotesque if one stopped to think about it. If God had forsaken that little girl, was His attention with other people? If so, His Infinite If so, His Omnipotence surely was limited. No, she was not forsaken. After all, was it not this very indifference of Nature, which is of God, with which all the patriarchs and prophets had argued? No man is a true believer unless he can stand and argue with Nature, call for some manifestation, call for assistance. God cannot be hurt. A man who is aware of the all-presence of the ultimate Intelligent Power knows that no supplication, no plaintive argument, can faze It. A man of little faith will not argue with God, feeling he is only .ue sod 1 talking to himself. As I thought these thoughts the very desert floor, the oasis, the little girl, everything, seemed to be welling up with an answer. An airplane droned overhead, a passenger plane. People were coming out of the nearby church and driving off in shining automobiles. Modern homes were everywhere in the distance. And there were graves of those who had passed on since. 149 ADAM LEARNS ETERNITY communion with her Creator. with other people?