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If the view set forth in the last chapter but one be 

 correct, there can be no difficulty in finding a mental 

 likeness to the Divine Being in memory. For what 

 other meaning is to be attached to that superiority to 

 time and place to which the memory testifies except this 

 that there is something in the mind of man which re- 

 flects the image of the Divine Being who is immortal and 

 omnipresent. And if so, then it follows that the mind of 

 man may find, as it would seem to do, a seat anywhere, 

 and keep it, even in a stone, as in the case where Joshua 

 took a great stone, and set it up under an oak that was 

 by the sanctuary of the Lord, and said unto all the 

 people, " Behold, this shall be a witness unto us : for it 

 has heard all the words of the Lord which He spake 

 unto us : it shall therefore be a witness unto you, lest 

 you deny your God." 



There is also in man a power to will and do which 

 may well belong to one who is the image of Him who is 

 all-powerful. I know that I may say yes or no, and defy 

 any power, human or divine, to make me say otherwise 

 unless I am so minded. I cannot account for the way 

 in which I coerce the movements of my own mind and 

 body, or am coerced by others, except upon the suppos- 

 ition that the will is supremely powerful. Indeed, after 

 what has been said already, I am more than half 

 compelled to regard my will as heaven-born rather than 

 as earth-born as indicating that I am nothing less than 

 the image of Him who is all-powerful, and to believe 

 that there is nothing really inconsequent in what is 

 revealed about the dominion over nature which man had 

 before the fall, or about the power to remove mountains 

 which he may again have, if he have " faith as a grain of 

 mustard seed." 



As it would seem, also, all is confusion if the imagin- 



