, 1877-03-05

i scngers to be "1ying spirit to tempt Ahao
to his DEATH. Then in the Fnty-frst Psalm,
we read. ''Eor thou desired truth in the II, IN
questionably VIC should lind similar growth in
in the theistic conceptions OF other races
The Hintioo mind did not reach BY q
single bound this conception uttered In one
its vse fhe SKY and the sea 1e are
! OF water"
This sketch has shown the law under which
the idea Of God has hecn evolved. The root
| OF the idea Is mystery. As soon as the human
tried to measure its powers against the rastness
| Of the universe, gods were Inevitable. The
mind did not attempt at first to traverse the
higher realms Of mystery. The night-heaVcn
because it IS not IN Object of thought. How
! the will controls the muscles and moves the
arm Is not an object OF wonder to any savage,
for to no savage-min1 eau it become an object
| called human, takes note Of the SER
| pcnt, wonders about its limbless progress
! sion. md wondering, worships. Science
| comes, and shows TINT the snake walks BY
the snake Of its godhood. Science shows how
white bulls and elephants happen to be rare, and
banishcs the built and the elephant from the
pantheon. Science, with her spectroscope,
butlt to the sun ropple over She is mighty
slayer Of gods, but not d universal destroyer.
As she Laws her hand on the wind, on the tide,
on heat, on light, on lightning, she finds TINT
each separate force Is a manifestation OF one
throuea the realms of Nature and lie. iashing
her lamp of law on mystery after mystery, eacl.
separate mystery dissolves to reappear in one
UNIVERSAL, OBJECTIONABLE MYSTERY.
Before that unknown and unknownablc we
idea Of personality. # We say t.hm,n We so
far define the undetinablc as to make it per-
TRANSCEND personality. II we say Joyc. Joyeh.
Eiohin, Lord, or God, we merely project the
word against IN infinite background Of
mystery. The mind rof the savage com
passes hut speck Of the universe,
and ali without is wonderland and Goi-laud.
The mind Of La Place encompasses so much as
to see that qrcater mind. enromnassfnr ali.
could write in one formula the scheme Of the
uniycrse,-the highest CONCEPTION to which The
ception there would be no % place | Ior gods. and
there woa1ii he m n1ace for one 1ocaiiycd Gn;l
L. Place could not haye said what Mr.. Moody |
saws: tYou tell me God is everywhere. tel !
YOU ,tain't So: He's there. The God ~
In PLACE could mt be the immense shaf1ow of a !
man nroiected On a hackeronnd of the m. /
known. i've doubt whether ia Place wonld
have CONCEIVED Of the mower ontworl,ing
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