One is better than another, according as the Eternal Good manifesteth itself and worketh more in one than in another.
Science impresses deeply on the student the lesson that there is a causal force—a stability in the Ideal world, of which the material is only the transitory show.—
In a story of Jesus' life, we read: "There came a voice from heaven." Of the people who stood by and heard it, some said, " It thundered," and some, " An angel spake.'" And what have we to-day for pronouns of the universe? Our Christian rain and thunder answer, " It; " yet the He still lingers for the rarities. —Unitarian Review.
Neither art Thou found by the proud, though by their curious skill they number the stars and the sand, measure out the celestial regions, discover the courses of the planets, and many things they have discovered, and foretold long before-hand —the eclipses of the sun and moon, what day, what hour, and in how many digits they should happen, and then their calculation has been found true, and it has come to pass as they foretold. And these things the ignorant admire and stand amazed at; while they that know them rejoice, and are puffed up with them, and by their impious pride, departing from thee, and hiding thy light from themselves, they foresee the eclipses of the sun so long before, and see not their own which at present they suffer."—
Nob fear I aught that science brings
From searching through material things;
Since everywhere the Spirit walks
The garden of the heart, and talks
With man, as under Eden's trees,
In all his varied languages.
What to thee is shadow, to Him is day,
And the end He knoweth,
And not on a blind and aimless way
The spirit goeth.
