ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



the physical and literary world. Rising still 

 higher within the invisible banks of its in- 

 fluence, it has caused an overflow of sym- 

 bolism in the moral and religious world. 

 Hence the use of water, in baptismal rites, 

 to lodge, if possible, a suggestion of inward 

 cleanliness. Thus, gratefully numbering the 

 fine and varied ministrations of water, we 

 discover it to be the subtle animating spirit 

 of the earth, as the soul is the pervasive and 

 animating force in man. 



