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the strikingly realistic account of the Last Judgment given 

 in Revelation is not a mere figment or picture of the 

 inspired imagination, but a real occurrence of everyday 

 automatic record ; thus the thoughts, words, and deeds 

 of every human being register themselves by impact on 

 the very innermost source of the universe, which, accord- 

 ing to this finding, is the spiritual medium with which it 

 is inter-penetrated and surrounded, with absolute exactitude 

 of detail, without the possible omission of a single " jot or 

 tittle," and with the verisimilitude and truth of the most 

 perfect photograph, while leaving at the same time a 

 duplicate copy on the pages of memory so luminous and 

 imperishable that it remains as a means of reference and 

 comparison by the Author of man, and the conscience, 

 with which every human being has been supplied, to be 

 consulted continually, and to be used as a guide, counsellor, 

 and friend, not an enemy, but if, unhappily, in the latter 

 manner alas ! for that man or woman, " it would have 

 been better for them had they never been born." Alas ! 

 also, that the truth, so truly expressed and vouched for 

 by secular authority, in the saying, that "truth makes 

 cowards of us all " is universally applicable, more or less, 

 fully to the experience of every member of the human 

 family. 



The truth, also, of the saying, where man is being 

 enjoined to be true to himself, in order that he should 

 " not be false to any man," in the light of such statements, 

 becomes as applicable to the ethical relationships of man 

 as if they had been expressed under the influence of 

 Divine Inspiration. 



Again, it follows from the application of such views to 

 the everyday working of the machinery of civilisation 

 generally, and to the incidence and outcome of those 

 influences flowing from the operations of Divine Provi- 

 dence, we must teach ourselves to understand 

 working with anthropomorphic tools and using anthropo 

 morphic methods and figures of speech to convey 

 ideas of Divine things, when these fail to convey an 

 intelligible meaning, we must content ourselves wit 

 the limited and finite powers in our possession, m; 

 use of reason and imagination to their fullest exte 



