3.  “Let the waters be gathered together.”  It was ordered that it should be the natural property of water to flow, and in obedience to this order, the waters are never weary in their course.  In speaking thus, I have only in view the flowing property of waters.  Some flow of their own accord like springs and rivers, others are collected and stationary.  But I speak now of flowing waters.  “Let the waters be gathered together unto one place.”  Have you never thought, when standing near a spring which is sending forth water abundantly, Who makes this water spring from the bowels of the earth?  Who forced it up?  Where are the store-houses which send it forth?  To what place is it hastening?  How is it that it is never exhausted here, and never overflows there?  All this comes from that first command; it was for the waters a signal for their course.