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 to a trench  which  he  had  dug. St. Augustine stopped and  asked  the  child  what  he  was  doing. He answered: “I  want  to  empty  all  the  water  of  the ocean into  this  pit.”  The  saint  shook  his  head,  and said: “ My child,  that  is  impossible! ” The boy looked up  and  smiled. “It would  be  easier,”  he replied,  “ to  empty  all  the  sea  into  this  trench  than to fathom  the  mystery  of  the  Holy  Trinity.”  Our finite intelligence  can  no  more  comprehend  the nature of  the  infinite  Deity  than  the  waters  of  the ocean can  be  confined  in  a vessel  of  human  manufacture.

''Q. What  is  a mystery? ''

''A. A mystery  is  a truth  which  we  cannot  fully understand. ''

If we  believe  man,  how  much  the  more  ought  we to  believe  God! A missionary from  Europe  went to preach  the  Gospel  in  a heathen  country  situated in the  tropics. Once upon  a time  he  told  the  natives that in  his  country  during  winter  the  water  became so hard  that  an  elephant  could  walk  on  it. The natives, who  only  knew  water  as  always  warm  and even boiling  in  certain  springs,  could  not  imagine such a thing  to  be  possible. Yet as  they  knew  the missionary to  be  an  upright  and  honorable  man,  they did not  doubt  him  but  believed  his  statement. If we give  credence  to  the  word  of  a man  of  known integrity, how  much  more  ought  we  unhesitatingly to believe the  word  of  God.