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tasteful to the religious mind if it be felt that there 

 is no desire to save the evidences of design unless 

 they serve at the same time to testify to the nature of 

 that design as beneficent, I must once more observe 

 that the difficulty thus presented to theism is not a 

 difficulty of modern creation. On the contrary, it has 

 always constituted the fundamental difficulty with 

 which natural theologians have had to contend. The 

 external world appears, in this respect, to be at 

 variance with our moral sense ; and when the an- 

 tagonism is brought home to the religious mind, it 

 must ever be with a shock of terrified surprise. It 

 has been newly brought home to us by the general- 

 izations of Darwin ; and therefore, as I said at the 

 beginning, the religious thought of our generation 

 has been more than ever staggered by the question 

 Where is now thy God ? But I have endeavoured to 

 show that the logical standing of the case has not 

 been materially changed ; and when this cry of 

 Reason pierces the heart of Faith, it remains for 

 Faith to answer now, as she has always answered 

 before and answered with that trust which is at 

 once her beauty and her life Verily thou art a God 

 that hidest thyself. 



