168 EEV. CANON li. B. GIKDLESTONE^ M.A., ON 



SO dread the accusation of anthropomorphism, if we are made in 

 the image of God in a sense that is not true of the animal, must 

 not that higher intelligence so given be the only means of arriving 

 at any idea of God, however imperfect. Of course, our words and 

 ideas are imperfect, our best expressions are derived from imperfect 

 analogies and necessarily imperfect. And as for the certainty of 

 science, the expressions we use are just equally imperfect and bear 

 etymological analysis even worse than those of Theology. And the 

 ideas they express are incessantly varying. What are atoms, what 

 is ether, what is light, what is force 



Mr. Martin Kouse, B.A., said : Blind nature is represented by 

 one of its greatest forces ; the ocean, although at work for ages, 

 produces no organism or mechanism, but only a few rounded 

 stones; a single man by his intellect thinks out and builds up a 

 clock. A tree is a machine far excelling a clock, in that every 

 year it winds itself up and makes fresh wheels, in the shape of 

 leaves, flowers, and fruit in and by means of which its sap is drawn 

 up and rotates ; so a tree must have taken a far superior intellect to 

 design and construct it. How infinitely superior, then, must have 

 been the intellect which has stored within every such machine a 

 large number of like machines, ready after a few years to do the 

 same work, and within each of those machines a large number 

 more, and so onward to a thousand generations. 



At the completion of the house in which God's glory was to abide, 

 Solomon exclaimed, " But will God indeed dwell on the earth 1 

 bdhold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee." 

 Yet in the same prayer he appealed to Jehovah for both present 

 and future help in the words, " Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling 

 place, and when thou hearest forgive and do." It is clear, then, 

 that the Heavenly Father is said to be everywhere, because His 

 knowledge of all that goes on in His universe is perfect, and His 

 power perfect to deal with all, but that there is one part of the 

 universe remote from us in which He sits to control every part. 

 And His attendant spirits do not, as some men imagine, move from 

 one part to another with the rapidity of thought ; for Gabriel, whose 

 usual station is before His throne,* being commanded "at the 

 beginning " of Daniel's long prayer and confession to bring comfort 



^ Cf. Luke i, 19. 



