82 THE VEN. ARCHDEACON W. MACDONALD SINCLAIR, D.D., ON 
is exactly what we expect to hear. It was the Son of God 
Himself who said that noe man hath seen God at any time. To 
the eye of Faith alone He is visible; by the Moral and 
Religious Sense He can be known; in the Conscience He 
can be recognized; in History His footsteps can be traced ; 
in the Soul His still, small voice can be heard. ‘And 
falling,” as one has said, 
“ Upon the great world’s altar-stairs 
That slope through darkness up to God,” 
we join our voices with the hosts of light above us, and 
with the innumerable company of believing souls on earth, 
humble and firm in their unshakable trust ; and we cry :— 
““We praise Thee, O God ! 
We acknowledge Thee to be the Lord ! 
All the earth doth worship Thee, 
The Father everlasting !” 
Il]. THrE PROVINCE or FAITH. 
1. The Reasonableness of Faith. 
These are the gropings of Science and Philosophy in the 
direction of Faith, a region with which they suppose 
themselves not to be primarily concerned; and I say they 
are a help to us, because, if by any possible accident a 
reasonable account could be given of the material Universe 
without Almighty God, it might to some be a stumbling- 
block. 
But, since the day when, in its earliest cradle, the human 
race first meditated on the riddle of existence, it has been 
the glorious province of a well-grounded Faith to hold 
devout communion with the omnipresent Being, and to 
learn that He is not only Power, but Light; not only Light, 
but Love. 
The oldest writing in the world is perhaps the papyrus 
scroll of the mummy of the ancient Egyptian High Priest, 
Ahabanuk. Ahabanuk is supposed to have lived about 
2800 years before Christ, 1000 years before the date at 
which it used to be said that Abram left Ur of the Chaldees. 
In Ahabanuk’s tomb was found a copy of the Book of 
Prayers of that primitive race. From that venerable 
document has been translated this sublime passage :— 
“There is a Most Holy One, a Creator of the fulness of the 
earth, a ruler of days: He is the God of gods, the exalted 
