A local citizen tested his pastor with the following question: "If you know so much about God, tell me what this is," as he held up a lighted match. "I mean, what is flame and what is fire? Explain it to me."

"Well," puzzled the preacher, "we are told it is conversion of energy, of power and of substance changing from one form to another. We know it serves mankind, but wrongly used can be of g…