426 RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE: PERSONAL 



him can come only through patient and sympathetic study of all 

 the facts, for 



" Truth is one 



And in all laws beneath the sun 

 Whoso hath eyes to see may see 

 The tokens of its unity." 



That which the religious consciousness has known from the begin- 

 ning is being disclosed by every advance of science and philosophy, 

 namely, the essential unity of all things. The religionist is recog- 

 nizing in the scientist a friend and co-worker; and the scientist would 

 do well to remember that it is the attitude of reverence, of submission, 

 of obedience, as Bacon, the father of the modern scientific research, 

 well pointed out, that unlocks nature's secrets to the human mind. 



We need all three of the galleries seen in the palace in Wilhelm 

 Meister reverence for things that are beneath us, reverence for 

 things that are about us, and reverence for things that are above 

 us if we are to possess the universe of Truth. 



" When I found him in the bosom, 



Then I found him everywhere, 

 In the bud and in the blossom, 



In the earth and in the air; 

 And he spake to me with clearness 



Thro' the silent stars that say, 

 As ye find him in the nearness 



Ye shall find him far away." 



