ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



of a true friend, he comes to understand the 

 larger kinship which links him to even the 

 lowest forms of inorganic life. With his 

 hand on the teeming earth-mold, the bene- 

 ficent mother of millions of fair offspring, 

 he can almost feel the throb of the great 

 earth heart and believe with Lafcadio Hearn 

 that "The stones and the rocks have felt; 

 the winds have been breath and speech; 

 the rivers and oceans of earth have been 

 locked into chambers of hearts. And the 

 palingenesis cannot cease till every cosmic 

 particle shall have passed through the ut- 

 termost experience of the highest possible 

 life." 



Closely related to Hearn's illuminated 

 vision of matter was David's intuition that 

 he was "curiously wrought in the lowest 

 parts of the earth." And from this inti- 

 mation it is but a step to the belief in the 

 immanence of God a spirit pervading all 

 matter as the light the air, and continually 

 directing all earth-wrought miracles. Thus 

 viewed no longer as a monstrous mass of life- 

 less soil, but as matter charged with an in- 



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