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Omnipresence. In the conscience, however, and in 

 the creation of the human spirit, the Divine Presence 

 is manifested as it is not elsewhere. At these places 

 a holy of holies exists, and in it is a holy fire. On 

 this theme, as on so many others, the symbols of the 

 tabernacle are inexhaustibly significant. The cheru- 

 bim stand above that holy fire, and look down upon 

 what lies beneath their wings, and do not understand 

 it all. They know that this spot is the holy of 

 holies, and that God is there ; and probably ages 

 hence, when such illumination shall have filled the 

 world that our present science will seem to be dark- 

 ness, the cherubim will yet fold their wings above 

 the inmost shrine of the human conscience, "and say, 

 "Holy, holy, holy! We know that God is there." 

 Mechanism is not the word that will be written on 

 that casket an hundred years hence. It is not the 

 word written there to-day under the eyes of the 

 highest scholarship. [Applause.] 



Instead of answering in the name of any authority, 

 German, Scotch, English, or American, the question 

 as to the origin of the soul, I am now to endeavor to 

 obtain a reply from the established facts of biology. 

 What do we understand of the process of the pro- 

 duction of many lives from one ? Stuart Mill asks 

 us to make always a broad distinctibn between what 

 we positively know, and what is yet in debate. Leav- 

 ing out of my list of propositions every thing doubt- 

 ful, I am now to collect and put before you only the 

 facts as to which scholarship is agreed concerning 

 the origin of the soul. Facts arranged in their 



