t for as a force or as a personality? The old argument,
hackneyed but true, spoke to him: The presence of design argues a
designer. No blind force ever clasped the petals of a lily together,
to say nothing of the arrangement of a universe. Had Hubert known it,
there was a passage of Inspiration which read:

"The invisible things of him from the creation or the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
everlasting power and Godhead."

Now how to address himself to God--how to conduct this new
experiment--was the question. He remembered the conditions of
discipleship to science, and determined that he would follow them.
First, there was child-likeness. A fragment of Scripture, words of
Jesus Christ, came to him:

"Except ye . . . become as little children ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven."

How simple the principle. No pride of supposed knowledge, no dogmatism
of unbelief might be brought to the door of this mysterious kingdom by
the man who would enter in. Then, he must follow the things revealed
if he would know more. What did he know about God? Or what must be
true of Him, granted that He is?

"If He is," thought Hubert, "and is my Creator, then He must know me
altogether."

"Thou God seest me."

It was a text--he did not know its connection--learned years before in
Sunday-school, before his independence of spirit had withdrawn his neck
from an unloved yoke. Now it spoke to him clearly. Surely God (if He
were) must see him, and surely He must hear him. He did not
consciously remember the words, "he that planted the ear, shall he not
hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?" But thoughts of like
nature passed through his mind. A creator who could bestow such
marvelous faculties must Himself possess them in infinite measure. And
a God who had given to His creatures such powers of communication, must
surely have means to make Himself understood.

"If He is," said Hubert, "then He is great! He is infinite. I cannot
measure His power in any line. Surely He can reveal Himself to me if
He will. Is He willing?"

In the contemplation of God the man grew less and less in his own
esteem. Would God reveal Himself to such an atom in the wide universe
as he? Did He care for him or about him?

"God is Love," whispered memory, from the Book, and the suggestion beat
upon the unarmored heart of the seeker, and was not unwelcome.

"I will put it