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Rh find in the world, nay, in the very midst of a Christian population, some, who, in the Cimmerian darkness of their minds, not only have no self-derived perception of spiritual truths, but are even able to stifle or absorb the rays of revealed light flowing in from without, and persist in denying or doubting the existence of a God and of a life after death, and even of their own rational souls, declaring themselves to be no better than the beasts that perish? How can there be, as is imagined, a "light of nature," a universal revelation, flowing into all men's minds, when we find instances like these?

No! but for the merciful Revelation that we have 12