COSMIC THEISM 



to be that which it has ever been." The God of 

 the scientific philosopher is still, and must ever 

 be, the God of the Christian, though freed from 

 the illegitimate formulas by the aid of which 

 theology has sought to render Deity compre- 

 hensible. What is this wondrous Dynamis 

 which manifests itself to our consciousness in 

 harmonious activity throughout the length and 

 breadth and depth of the universe, which guides 

 the stars for countless ages in paths that never 

 err, and which animates the molecules of the 

 dewdrop that gleams for a brief hour on the 

 shaven lawn, — whose workings are so resist- 

 less that we have naught to do but reverently 

 obey them, yet so infallible that we can place 

 our unshaken trust in them, yesterday, to-day, 

 and forever? When, summing up all activity 

 in one most comprehensive epithet, we call it 

 Force, we are but using a scientific symbol, ex- 

 pressing an affection of our consciousness, which 

 is yet powerless to express the ineffable Reality. 

 To us, therefore, as to the Israelite of old, the 

 very name of Jehovah is that which is not to be 

 spoken. Push our scientific research as far as 

 we may, pursuing generalization until all phe- 

 nomena, past, present, and future, are embraced 

 within a single formula, we shall never fathom 

 this ultimate mystery, we shall be no nearer 

 the comprehension of this omnipresent Energy. 

 Here science must ever reverently pause, ac- 

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