10 A GREAT REASONING POWER 



these material things we accept what appeals 

 to our natural senses and take much more for 

 granted, are we justified in taking the position 

 of the agnostic, and rejecting everything of the 

 spiritual life that we cannot understand ? 

 Should it not be maintained that the more we 

 become convinced of our ignorance concerning 

 natural phenomena the more ready shall we be 

 to accept all that is good and beautiful in 

 Christ (and Christianity), without insisting on 

 a full understanding by our finite minds of 

 much that He taught and did ? 



Even those phenomena which we look upon 

 as every-day occurrences are to many of us 

 almost sealed books. We say that we know 

 all about them, but do we ? We have merely 

 scratched the surface of such knowledge ; we 

 have not reached the heart of it. We know little 

 more of the causes, of the forces that are at 

 work than we know of some of the miracles 

 that were recorded nearly a couple of thousand 

 years ago. Behind all these beautiful works 

 there appears to be a great reasoning Power, 

 a Power that controls, One infinitely above our 



