MODERN METHODS OF SCIENCE. 597 
routes to compare notes, they will very much retard each other’s 
progress and waste much time in discussing the peculiar merits 
of their particular road, and get into a quarrel about them. The 
roads they travel are paved with certain principles and forces, 
but of very different natures. 
Science treads on certain mathematical axioms and principles, 
recognizing matter and certain forces or modifications of an en- 
ergy innate in matter, as heat, light, electricity, etc. Religion is 
guided by its axioms and principles, faith, love, and hope, and 
with these it is expected to work out its great end in the present 
and future of mankind. Science is nature revealed; religion is 
Nature’s God revealed; and neither the one nor the other can be 
without its axioms, incapable of demonstration. 
Some may mock at faith and say “ Faith is bankrupt, and her 
accounts are under strict examination, to determine what assets 
remain to be distributed among the impoverished souls that are 
her creditors ;’ still it is an axiom made manifest to our con- 
Sciousness, as much, if not even more so, than the axiom of 
a mathematical point being something without length, breadth 
or thickness, or a line as having length without breadth or thick- 
ness 
This faith is as much an energy of the immortal, as heat is one 
of the energies of matter. We know heat by its phenomena 
alone, and we know faith in the same way, its phenomena proving 
its existence as well to the child as to the man, to the learned and 
the unlearned. It led Socrates and Plato, even with their im- 
perfect light, to the great God, the Creator of the heavens and the- 
earth, and to a belief in the immortality of the soul. 
_ What God is in his essence we know not, nor how it is that he 
Can exist. A Being not made by himself nor any one else; with- 
Out beginning of days or end of years: existing through infinite 
ages; filling immensity without being in any place; everywhere 
Present without displacing a single one of his myriad creatures ; 
: ead all things yet without motion; being all eye, all ear, 
a, energy, and yet not interfering in the least with the thoughts 
and actions of man ;—this has been well styled “the greatest 
mystery of the universe, enveloped at once in a flood of light 
“nd an abyss of darkness—inexplicable itself, explaining every- 
thing else, and after displacing every other difficulty, itself re- 
maining in inapproachable, inanrmogntable, incomprehensible 
