194 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



ing. Can we ascribe form to infinite space ? No 

 more can we ascribe personality to God. 



What appears more real than the sky ? We 

 think of it and speak of it as if it was as positive 

 and tangible a fact as the earth. See how it is 

 painted by the sunset or by the sunrise. How blue 

 it is by day, how gemmed by stars at night. At one 

 time tender and wooing, at another hard and dis- 

 tant. Yet what an illusion ! There is no sky ; it 

 is only vacancy, only empty space. It is a glimpse 

 of the infinite. When we try to grasp or measure 

 or define the Power we call God, we find it to be 

 another sky, sheltering, over-arching, all-embracing, 

 — palpable to the casual eye, but receding, vanish- 

 ing to the closer search ; unfathomable because in- 

 tangible, — the vast power, or ether, in which the 

 worlds float, — but itself ungraspable, unattainable, 

 forever soaring beyond our ken. Not a being, not 

 an entity is God, but that which lies back of all 

 being and all entities. Hence an old writer, in 

 his despair of grasping God, said, " God may not 

 improperly be called nothing." Absolute being is 

 to the human mind about the same as nothing, or 

 no being at all, just as absolute motion is equivalent 

 to eternal rest, or as infinite space means no space 

 at all. Motion implies something which is not mo- 

 tion, and space implies lines and boundaries. In- 

 finite being or power gives the mind no place to 

 rest. One's thought goes forth like the dove from 

 Noah's ark and finds nowhere to perch. 



" How can any one teach concerning Brahma ? 



