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7. It follows that the material universe, while, by 

 the power and divine attributes present in it, our 

 minds may be enlarged and elevated, cannot fully 

 satisfy the demands of our religious life. However we 

 may be instructed and elevated by the marvellous 

 exhibition of divinity in nature ; however God may 

 shine within ourselves by the light of conscience, we 

 must find ourselves surrounded by those inscrutable 

 mysteries with which the great minds of antiquity 

 so manfully strove, and which are so clearly presented 

 to us in the discussions of Job with his friends. 

 Rightly regarded, even these mysteries may, by 

 analogy with God s natural procedure, be to some 

 extent solved, as they were by the patriarch of Uz, 

 when, in contemplating the marvellous works of 

 nature, he humbled^himself before God and repented 

 in dust and ashes. \jjt is plain that if it has pleased 

 God to reveal Himself directly to man, in addition to 

 the indirect revelation of nature, and to the testimony 

 of our own moral intuitions, this must be a great 

 gain. Hence men have yearned for such revelation, 

 and have believed that it has been given by the Spirit 

 of God in the visions of prophets and the narratives 

 of holy men of old, and in these last times by the 

 divine Son of God Himself To Jesus Christ all men 

 must turn, trusting to Him for salvation, and looking 

 forward to the ultimate finality in His coming king 

 dom, in which only can be perfectly manifested the 

 great designs of the Almighty Fatheij 



