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grandeur, so that the Psalmist exclaims: ‘Clouds and darkness 
are around about him; righteousness and judgment are the 
habitation of his throne.’” 
This is the God whose existence reason cannot prove, while it 
cannot disprove, and whom the religionists and scientists are 
looking for: that they will one day see him as he is, is my firm 
belief, and, as I before stated, they will see him the sooner by 
keeping separate roads. 
That many a scientist will be swallowed up in pantheism from 
want of patience is to be expected, and, I regret to acknowledge, 
will with Hartmann “ maintain that creation is a cause, existence 
a misfortune, life a deepening disappointment, and that the ex- 
tinction of personal consciousness is the only salvation ;” but 
many more will enjoy the double felicity of arriving at the great 
end sustained both by science and by religion, and will agree with 
what Socrates wrote nearly two thousand years ago, without the 
revealed word of God to enlighten him—or to mystify him, as 
some would say. Listen to that philosopher of ancient days as he 
says: “This great God, who has formed the universe and sup- 
ported the stupendous work whose every part is finished with the 
utmost goodness and harmony—he who preserves them perpetually 
in immortal vigor, and causes them to obey him with a never-fail- 
ing punctuality and a rapidity not to be followed by the imagina- 
tion—this God makes himself sufficiently visible by the endless 
wonders of which he is the author, but continues always inv risible 
in himself. Let us not then refuse to believe even what we do nos 
see, and let us supply the defects of our corporeal eyes by usmg 
those of the soul; but let us learn to render the just homage of re- 
spect and veneration to the divinity whose will it seems to be that 
we should have no nrs perception of him than by his benefits 
vouchsafed to us.’ 
I cannot close this part of my subject without reverting to the 
tendency of certain men of science to make physical experiment 
. the test of all truth; even prayer and divine providence influ- 
encing affairs in this world must become subjects for experiment ; 
and if the results be not in accordance with the experiments, 
then suspicion is to be cast on faith. This has been truly e- 
plained as coming from the spirit of an age which strives to make 
_ natural science the all in all of wisdom, and begins with nature in- 
stead of — with oe, and ends with burying man and 
