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hour from this last look upon their solemn splendour ; 

 are they to pass away at the silent and unutterable 

 hest of the eternal King of Glory ? And the King of 

 Glory, who is this ? Ah ! they have toyed too lirMly 

 with the Creative Attribute, who have though, to 

 climb up to its awful sanctuary, where it dwelleth 

 evermore in the omnific word of Godhood, by piling 

 stone upon stone in endless erection of a faithless 

 science of final causation and a great first Cause. 

 Why Jehovah is not the infinite source, but the source 

 of the infinite source ; not the first cause, but the cause 

 of the first cause of all things ; and even that in an 

 altogether metaphorical mode. In fine, raised up on a 

 basis of unconscious scepticism, this kind of natural 

 theology is a seemly superstructure ; but it hangs on 

 the air, wavers uncertainly in every wind of doctrine, 

 and is ready to vanish at the first sound of a bolder 

 infidelity, leaving no trace behind. But the same 

 phantasmagorial temple of design, with its magnificent 

 proportions, shapely columns, rare devices, and choicest 

 ornaments, becomes a grand reality, the instant that 

 man, as its anointed priest, proclaims through the 

 resounding aisles that FAITH, ONLY FAITH, is THE 



EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN." 



THE END. 



LONDON : BAILLIERE, TINDALL, AND COX, PRINTERS. 



