The great Architect has formed and fashioned the scenes of nature that they may have an important bearing upon man′s intellectual and moral character. These are to be God′s school to educate the mind and morals. Here the mind may have a vast field for study in the display of the majestic works of the Infinite One. The rocks are among the precious things of earth, containing treasures of wisdom and knowledge. In the rocks and mountains are registered the fact that God did destroy the wicked from off the earth by a flood. (OHC 252.2) MC VC