THE BEING OF GOD. 79 
be conceived by Reagon in her greatest and most exalted 
fights? 5 +c 
“Can Reason feel satisfied in concluding that God has 
created dead and thoughtless matter to remain dead and 
thoughtless for ever? Would the artist be satisfied to stop 
short of painting his picture when he had prepared his 
paints and stretched his canvas? Nay: when he had 
finished his production, would he not, like Pygmalion, go 
on to put mind and life into it, were it in his power to do 
so? ... It is always assumed by us that a mechanician, 
an artist, a poet, a philosopher, a man of science, will carry 
his work to the highest perfection in his power—if indeed 
he be endowed with wisdom. Can we then conceive that 
God, whose perfection is infinite, will fail in contemplating, 
in His work, anything short of the very best? And is there 
anything else equal to the end we have referred to as in- 
volved in what the Bible affirms to be the ultimate end of 
the Universe ?” 
“ Hallowed be Thy name—Hallelujah ! 
Infinite Ideality ! 
Immeasurable Reality ! 
Infinite Personality ! 
Hallowed be Thy name—Hallelujah ! 
We feel we are nothing—for all is Thou and in Thee ; 
We feel we are something—that also has come from Thee ; 
We know we are nothing—but Thou will help us to be. 
Hallowed by Thy name—Hallelujah ! ” 
Tennyson. 
2. Suggestions from the Higher Pantheism. 
The thoughts, I submit, of a Pantheist may be of use to 
us, because the transition seems so natural and reasonable 
from the admission of a Divine omnipresent Power to that 
Personal Father of all things whom we ourselves worship. 
“The whole tendency of modern thought,” says a writer 
whom I have already quoted (Fiske), “is to impress upon 
us ever more forcibly the truth that the entire knowable 
Universe is an immense unit, animated through all its parts 
by a single principle of life. . . . . The fathomless 
abysses of space can no longer be talked of as empty; they 
are filled with a wonderful substance unlike any of the 
forms of matter which we can weigh or measure. . . . 
Radiating in every direction, from countless centric points, 
tun shivers of undulation manifested in endless metamor-. 
