him,
eternally hating his enemies, all of whom were his own creatures, and
plunging into an eternal hell of fire and brimstone the larger part of
his own children, created in his own image and likeness. While I
cannot understand the "problems of his providence," I am sure that "the
Judge of all the earth will do right." As to the perplexities that
have grown out of the ideas of God's _foreknowledge, foreordination_,
etc., my view is that no such a thing as _foreknowledge_ can be
attributed to God. To do so is to attribute to him time limitations.
To the Infinite God there can be no such thing as past or future. All
is the "_eternal present_" in which God is still at work, as much as
ever before. I confess I cannot comprehend _how_ this is; but I can
comprehend _that_ it is.

"Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill,
He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will."

_MAN_

"What is man that thou art mindful of him?" So far as we know, as a
pure animal, he is the highest product, the climax of the processes of
organic evolution. In addition to this, he is the only known creature
on earth, or elsewhere, endowed with those God-like faculties of mind,
thought, reason, will,--_soul_. As far as man's moral character and
destiny are concerned, it matters as little how he came to be here, as
it does who Cain's wife was. We are confronted with the serious fact
that _we are here_; and that we are endowed with these supreme
faculties that differentiate us from the lower forms of life about us,
and consequently entail upon us, not thru some supernatural revelation,
but by natural instinct, certain moral and social responsibilities and
obligations, not only to our own kind, but to all those myriad forms of
life below us,--obligations and responsibilities which we cannot avoid
or escape, except at our peril.

And as to these responsibilities, it is not material whether man is
immortal or not. I once had serious doubts of this. But while I now
believe it with a firm conviction that in my own mind amounts to moral
certainty, yet I recognize that it is beyond the pale of ocular proof
or physical demonstration. It pertains exclusively to the realm of
faith.

"Strange is it not? that of the myriads who,
Before us passed the door of darkness thru,
Not one returns, to tell us of the road,
Which to discover, we must travel too?"

And yet this faith is one of the most comfor