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“I want them to see the Great Creator in the smallest and apparently the most insignificant things.”
Source: Letter to a YMCA official, 1927 (as cited in Christian History, 2020)
Context Writing to a YMCA official, he explained that his nature teaching aimed to lead young people to find God through close observation of small, overlooked things.
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