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 of the divine ethical teachings of the Hebrews, or their grand sacred poetry—

"Those Hebrew songs that triumph, trust or grieve,— Verses that smite the soul as with a sword, And open all the abysses with a word."

There is a faith which is a personal and conscious relation of man to God. It is said that in its true nature faith can be justified by nothing but itself. Here we enter the temple of the human heart and approach the holy of holies. This we do with reverent mien, even with fear and trembling. We quote from Prof. T. H. Green: "That God is, Reason entitles us to say with the same certainty as that the world is or that we ourselves are. What He is, it does not, indeed, enable us to say in the same way in which we make propositions about matters of fact, but it moves us to seek to become as He is, to become like Him, to become consciously one with Him, to have the fruition of his Godhead. In this sense it is that Reason issues in the life of Faith It is our very familiarity with God's expression of Himself in the institutions of society, in the moral law, in the language and inner life of Christians, in our own consciences, that helps to blind us to its divinity."

There is a poem, from an author not widely known, entitled "The Hound of Heaven." It will affect you according to the education, experience, and beliefs of each; but appeal to you it will, for in all is an insistent something that makes for righteousness.

"I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;     I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways      Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears