THE BEING OF GOD. 83 
Maker of the stars and of the heavenly hosts, which are 
praising Him above our head; the Creator of the exalted 
race of mighty. Princes and Governors who sit in 
judgment, who condemn the wicked: He is the Ruler ot 
the world, the Light which convicts the evil doer; the 
Judge of every deed, the Preserver of the Laws; He is the 
Light; with Him is no Night; He dwells in the exalted 
land of Light; in Him is joined together the glory of the 
Sun and the glory of the King of the world. The Most 
Holy One lives; He seeth as ye see; He heareth as ye 
hear; He standeth as ye stand; He sitteth as ye sit. 
Let the Lord God be exalted in His holy temple, and be 
worshipped on bended knees: for He is the End and the 
Beginning of all things.” 
There speaks the voice of Faith, in the dim and distant 
youth of the world. Without Faith, as was taught by the 
greatest master of modern philosophy, the German Emanuel 
Kant, without Belief in God and the Soul, no moral conduct 
is possible, and therefore no happiness. It is Faith which, 
telling you that the Eternal is Mind and not merely Force, 
Love and not merely Mind, raises you above the brute, and 
brings to maturity within you that life for which you were 
intended, 
2. Various Reasons for Belief. 
Whether your faith is grounded, like that of Kant, 
on the inherent necessity of a moral life, or lke that 
of Cicero on the intelligent witness of all mankind, or that 
of Bacon on the mirror of the Divine Being which he found 
in the mind of man, or like the faith of Anselm and Coleridge 
on the impossibility of the very conception of the idea of 
God unless it were true, or like the thin faith of Spencer and 
Tyndall on the need of an ultimate Cause, or like the richer 
and warmer faith of Newton and Faraday on the splendid 
wonders of the Creation, or like the faith of Abraham, Moses, 
David, and Isaiah, on the voice of Revelation within, or the 
united voice of the great cloud of witnesses in the Catholic 
Church, or like that of the humblest Christian on the Divine 
Personality of the Lord Jesus Christ; whatever in your case 
may be its origin and development, Faith is the most perfect 
flower, the highest outcome of your soul, its noblest privilege, 
its healthiest exercise. 
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