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the beginning understand that there has been no revelation 
of the infinite. In the case Mr. M filler brings the search for 
the infinite led to atheism, and, although Kant required the 
idea as the keystone of his philosophy, yet he could not pre- 
dicate it. Man has never found the infinite, and it must not 
be assumed that he ever will. And, if he did, it could only be 
a grand abstraction with which we finite persons could have 
no fellowship. In the Bible we have a revelation by which we 
can know God. But he is revealed, not as an unlimited nega- 
tion, but as the Creator and Upholder of all things, and as 
the Redeemer, Saviour, and King of man. The revelation is 
entirely a record of facts, sometimes reported, more frequently 
done, lout all within our ability to understand, and all within 
sensuous perception. All difficulty in the way of revelation 
vanishes before such a method. For we cannot suppose a 
difficulty in the way of the Creator at any time in revealing 
Himself to our senses, when we can convey the operations of 
our intellect by sensible means to our fellow-creatures. The 
mode of Divine operation we may not be able to understand ; 
but the fact itself, as accomplished, is as easy to know as any 
we witness or receive on human testimony. This mode of 
revelation is in harmony with our nature ; and we know it by 
the same process by which we obtain our knowledge in every 
line of science. It has so fully answered its purpose, that by 
it we may become wise unto salvation. But we must remem- 
ber that this revelation is given to show our relations to our 
Creator and our fellow-creatures, with the obligations and 
duties springing out of them. And we think we have strong 
scientific reasons for expecting such a revelation of Himself 
by the great Ruler, so far as is necessary to the establishment 
of religion — that is, of an obedient fellowship with Him. 
Man is the evident head of creation, the earth by a long 
process has been fitted for his habitation, and the work and 
the wreck of former ages furnish his support and w T ealth, 
while the limitless storehouse only opens its treasuries as he 
himself acquires the skill to discover and use them. Recent 
investigation and discovery have shown a wealth of structure 
and of ability to use it, which remove to an indefinite boundary 
the limits of improvement to man and his condition, thus 
revealing more fully the grandeur of the scheme of which 
man is the crown. But it all shows that the design can only 
be adequately realised by a natural, that is, a high moral 
character in man. The history of man shows he has a 
tendency to deterioration. All Mr. MfilleFs facts show this 
tendency in operation. Now, as this tendency, unchecked, 
must render abortive the grand design of the Creator, and 
