What is our relationship to God? In answering this, I would briefly remark, that the position that we stand in to him, is that of a son. Adam is the father of our bodies, and God is the father of our spirits. I know that some are in the habit of looking upon God, as a monster, only to be dreaded, known only in the earthquake, and tempest, the thunder, and the storm, and that there is something gloomy and dismal attached to his service.