418 Darwin, and after Darwin. 
tasteful to the relizious mind—if it be felt that there 
is no desire to save the evidences of design unless 
they serve at the same time to testify to the nature of 
that design as beneficent,—I must once more observe 
that the difficulty thus presented to theism is not a 
difficulty of modern creation. On the contrary, it has 
always constituted the fundamental difficulty with 
which natural theologians have had to contend. The 
external world appears, in this respect, to be at 
variance with our moral sense; and when the an- 
tagonism is brought home to the religious mind, it 
must ever be with a shock of terrified surprise. It 
has been newly brought home to us by the general- 
izations of Darwin; and therefore, as I said at the 
beginning, the religious thought of our generation 
has been more than ever staggered by the question— 
Where is now thy God? But I have endeavoured to 
show that the logical standing of the case has not 
been materially changed; and when this cry of 
Reason pierces the heart of Faith, it remains for 
Faith to answer now, as she has always answered 
before—and answered with that trust which is at 
once her beauty and her life—Verily thou art a God 
that hidest thyself. 
