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the limits of all human philosophy, physical, mental, and ethical, 

 and never leaped the flaming bounds to raise issues on insoluble 

 problems or dispute the divine mission of Him who spake as 

 never man spake. "That which we know is little, but that 

 which we know not, is immense," exclaimed LAPLACE; and the 

 humility of Professor HENRY found in his highest aspiration 

 reason for the lowliest modesty. He took shelter in the heal- 

 ing balm of evening from the dazzling radiance of speculation, 

 and in its sweet and inviting undertones found whisperings of 

 infinite love. 



During his long life and its closing hours he clung to the Rock 

 of Ages as the foundation of all his knowledge and the source of 

 all his comfort. For him there was no gauge of prayer ; for prayer, 

 as he said, was above and beyond science. There was for him no 

 greater light to shine on the daily path of life than that Sun of 

 Righteousness whose reflection was but the faint illumination in our 

 finite mind. 



We have written testimony but a few weeks before his death to 

 his exalted faith in our religion. Amidst a universe of change, 

 where nothing remained the same from one moment to another, 

 and where each moment of recorded time had its separate history, 

 and while a universe of wonders is presented to us in our rapid 

 flight through space, he held to the steadfast truth that after all our 

 attempts to grapple with the problem of the universe, the simplest 

 conception which expands and connects the phenomena of nature is 

 that of the existence of one spiritual Being, infinite in wisdom, in 

 power, and all divine perfections, which exists always and every- 

 where, which has created us with intellectual faculties in some 

 degree to comprehend his operations as they are developed in 

 nature. This was his divine creed of creeds ! It was reconciled 

 with science. He believed that this Infinite Being was unchange- 

 able and that therefore his operations were in accordance with 



