nsate and meaningless vibrations in a pulpy mass called
the brain. The true knowledge of God, for which Jose had yearned and
striven, begins only when men turn from the mesmeric deception of the
physical senses, and learn that there is something, knowable and
usable, behind them, and of whose existence they give not the
slightest intimation.

It was Saturday. The church edifice was so far put in order that Jose
found no reason for not holding service on the morrow. He therefore
announced the fact, and told Carmen that he must devote the day to
preparation. Their lessons must go over to Monday. Seeking the
solitude of his house, Jose returned to his Bible.

He began with Genesis. "In the beginning--God." Not, as in the codes
of men, God last, and after every material expedient has been
exhausted--but "to begin with." Jose could not deny that for all that
exists there is a cause. Nor can the human mind object to the
implication that the cause of an existing universe must itself
continue to exist. Even less can it deny that the framer of the
worlds, bound together in infinite space by the unbreakable cables of
infinite laws, must be omnipotent. And to retain its omnipotence, that
cause must be perfect--absolutely good--every whit pure, sound, and
harmonious; for evil is demonstrably self-destructive. And, lastly,
what power could operate thus but an infinite intelligence, an
all-inclusive mind?

Now let the human mentality continue its own reasoning, if so be that
it hold fast to fact and employ logical processes. If "like
produces like"--and from thistles figs do not grow--that which mind
creates must be mental. And a good cause can produce only a good
effect. So the ancient writer, "And God saw every thing that He had
made, and, behold, it was very good." The inspired scribe--inspired?
Yes, mused Jose, for inspiration is but the flow of truth into one's
mentality--stopped not until he had said, "So God created man in
His own image"--

Wait! He will drive that home.

--"in the image of God"--not in the image of matter, not in the
likeness of evil--"created He him." But what had now become of that
man?

So Jesus, centuries later, "God is spirit," and, "That which is born
of the Spirit is spirit." Or, man--true man--expresses mind, God, and
is His eternal and spiritual likeness and reflection. But, to make
this still clearer to torpid minds, Paul wrote, "For in Him we live,
and move, and have our being." Then he ad