and seemed to bear the aspect in their perverted forms of half groveling instincts. The thoughts, in the meantime, had nothing distinctly to offer us. We can return again to sufficient belief on this subject --- to the truth --- only by strengthened thought and purified feeling. Having once miscarried by the feelings, we are liable to miscarry a second time by the thoughts, before we shall be able to combine the two in a comprehensive grasp of the truth.

The attitude of the mind finally reached in this field is fittingly expressed by the word faith. Faith is emotional vision. It is directed toward persons and personal truths. It sees the facts and comprehends their power through the personal elements that lie back of them. It is quick to discover spirit, and bold to trust itself to the righteous spirit. It is not less than intellect and vision; it is more; it is the insight of reason, moved to its best exertion by the purest affections. The argument for the being of God sweeps through the human soul, gathers up all its resources, and bears them forward into an all-embracing conclusion. It is not, therefore, less sound, but more sound; is not, therefore, visionary, but a vision.

The existence of God, if it is true at all, is profoundly true, and must modify everywhere and in every way the universe. Our presentation of the proof may be weak and deficient, but the proof itself, if proof there be, cannot be so. It must bathe the globe like light, but whether we see it or not may depend on narrow personal senses.