46 Charles Robert Darwin. 



"August anticipations, symbols, types, 

 Of a dim splendor ever on before 

 In that unending cycle run by life." 



How stands the thought of Darwin related to our faith 

 in God ? Truly, it is destructive of many things which have 

 been taught concerning him. It is conclusive that he is not 

 altogether such an one as ourselves ; that his thoughts are 

 not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways ; that he is 

 no mechanic-God, no Creator in the traditional sense. What 

 then ? Is he something less than heretofore he has been 

 deemed ? something less great, less wonderful, less sublime, 

 less worshipful ? My friends, it is not so. The vastness 

 and the wonder, the sublimity and the worship, in the new 

 thought, are not less than in the old, but infinitely more. 



' ' For we have learned 

 To look on Nature not as in the hour 

 Of thoughtless youth. 



We have felt 

 A presence that disturbs us with the joy 

 Of elevated thoughts, a sense sublime 

 Of something far more subtly interfused, 

 Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, 

 And the round ocean, and the living air, 

 And the blue sky, and in the mind of man : 

 A motion and a spirit that impels 

 All thinking things, all objects of all thought, 

 And rolls through all things." 



This Presence, Motion, Spirit, is our God. God, our God, 

 how excellent is thy name in all the earth ! 



