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find proof that He regards right and wrong. \Ye 

 cannot help referring to our Creator as high attri- 

 butes as lie has conferred upon us. Not to do so, 

 would be to ignore the accepted axiom in moral 



>oning, that the cause must be equal to the ef- 



If lie merely provided for us as intellectual 



and moral beings, He must be of the same nature 



to comprehend our wants, and when we accept the 



truth that we w ued by Him, the argument 



tainly is n.t weakened. From our own consti- 

 tution we can find no fitter language in regard to 

 His character than the words of I Inly Writ : "He 

 that planted the ear, shall not lie hear, he that 

 formed the eye, shall not he see, * * * he that 

 teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?" 



ry man has within him constant evidence of 

 the e of amoral nature. It simply remains 



to consider the power of this nature in the indivi- 

 dual, and its relations toothers. And it is first to 

 be observed that th val of conscience is the 



highest source of enjoyment to man, and the up- 

 braidings of conscience are the severest torment 

 Sustained by an approving conscience, men have en- 

 dured every suffering and submitted to death itself. 

 Under the upbraidings of conscience, men have be- 

 come filled with remorse for the past and forebod- 

 ings of the future, till life became a burden, and es- 

 cape from torment has been sought for in death 

 itself. The very moral constitution of man, then, is 

 such that happiness comes to him from doing right, 

 and suffering from doing wrong. What doubt, then, 



