ng intellectual
activity, but, at the same time, are surrounded with unrealities or
half-realities. We want something to grasp that will never deceive us,
never fly from us. Anything--like mere vague generalities will never
satisfy beings constituted as you and I are; and thus it is that we
cannot do without something real in our religion, something definite.
We want to come into real communion with a personal Being, whom we can
consciously, though spiritually, approach, love, and reverence. We want
a real person such as ourselves, and yet infinitely above ourselves; and
such an one we have in the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour--one who is
like us as man, yet infinitely above us as God--one who can smile on us,
because he is human, and can watch over us, guide us, and bear with us,
because he is divine.

"Be sure of this, dear friends,--and I am speaking to you now as persons
of intelligence, who can thoughtfully weigh what I say,--science can
never be true science, knowledge can never be real knowledge which sets
aside the God who is the fountain of all truth and every kind of truth.
If we are to learn anything aright and thoroughly, we must learn it as
believers in Him in whom `we live, and move, and have our being,' who
has given us all our faculties, and placed us in the midst of that
universe all of whose laws are of his own imposing and maintaining.
Depend upon it, you cannot acquire any sound and useful knowledge
aright, if you try and keep up an independence of that God who is the
author and upholder of all things physical and spiritual. At the Cross
we must learn the only way of peace for our souls; and, in dependence on
the grace and wisdom of Him who is in every sense the Light of the
world, we must seek to make real advance in every field of knowledge,
content to know and feel our own ignorance, and thankful to gain light
in _all_ our investigations from Him who can at the same time baffle the
searchings of the wisest, and unfold to the humble yet patient and
persevering inquirer treasures of knowledge and wisdom otherwise
unattained and unattainable. In a word, as the whole universe belongs
to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and was made by him what it is,
if we would pursue any branch of knowledge, any science whatever, with
the truest and fullest prospect of success, we must do it as Christians,
as in dependence on Him `in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge.'

"This, I am w