92 HUMAN NATURE AND BRUTE NATURE. 



but of our backwardness to believe in God, to commune 

 with Him, and thereby to grow up into His likeness. 

 We are the mirror in which the divine image shines, if 

 only the mirror can be made to receive the requisite 

 brightness. 



To know that sin is sinful is to become conscious of 

 the will of God, to become conscious of a good and 

 perfect will to which our own ought to be conformed. 

 Not to know this will is to be still brutish ; to know it 

 only by the teaching of others is to be still among the 

 things of a child ; to know it of oneself, which is in 

 other words to know it by the teaching of the Holy 

 Ghost, who alone can implant the doctrine with un- 

 failing demonstration and enable us to receive His 

 discipline, this at length is to be a man made in the 

 image of God. For the fear of the Lord is the begin- 

 ning of wisdom, and to depart from evil that is under- 

 standing; and to love God with all the heart and all 

 the understanding and all the soul and all the strength, 

 is the single aim as it is the crowning effort of the 

 highest and purest intelligence. To be able to pray to 

 God is the glory of reason ; to do it, is the safeguard 

 of life. 



