ii iv aits for God. n 



not only in sending "rain and fruitful seasons," 1 

 but in men's hearts and consciences, however per- 

 verted. Were it not so, we should have no means 

 whatever of attracting the irreligious and the 

 heathen to Divine truth : we could not proclaim a 

 message to the conscience of men, if it were impossible 

 to express the message in a language which their 

 conscience could understand. Any successful call 

 on men to believe, must appeal to their latent 

 capacity for faith, and their half -felt need of a 

 Divine Saviour. To quote from one of the most 

 beautiful of our hymns 



Far and wide, though all unknowing, 

 Pants for Thee each mortal breast ; 



Human tears for Thee are flowing, 

 Human hearts in Thee would rest. 



Thirsting as for dews of even, 



As the new-mown grass for rain, 

 Thee they seek as God of Heaven, 



Thee as Man for sinners slain. 



Saviour, lo ! the isles are waiting ! 



Stretched the hand and strained the sight, 

 For Thy Spirit new-creating, 



Love's pure flame and wisdom's light ! 2 



Drummond ignores this. If he were consistent 

 with himself which, as we shall see farther on, 

 he is not he must deny any such blind presenti- 

 ment, in the natural man, of the revelation to be 

 made ; and for means to produce conviction of the 



1 Acts xiv. 17. 2 Bishop Coxe. 



