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80 God." Shall we attempt to reason with such a mind? does it deserve an answer?—What is a God? By the existence of a God, we mean the existence of a great Mind, indefinitely or infinitely superior to man's in wisdom and consequently in power, and, it may be added, also, in goodness. Now, even in the hasty and cursory view that has here been taken of the works of the material universe, have we not seen a thousand proofs of the existence and workings of such a Mind? Can any thinking man have a doubt upon this point? Why, the very savage, as he roams the wilderness, perceives and acknowledges the presence of the Great Spirit, both without and within him. He hears Him in the thunder, and in the whisperings of the forest-leaves; he sees Him in the rising sun and moon, and in the twinkling stars; he has a consciousness of His presence and over-ruling providence, whether treading the solitary wood-path, or sitting alone in his wigwam. That consciousness flows into his mind from heaven, and affects him; because, in his simplicity and ignorance, he has not, by any false reasonings, darkened and closed his mind against it. So, the little child, as he bows down at his mother's knee, in his evening prayer,—or when, holding by his father's hand, he walks out in the morning into the garden, and sees the newly wakened flowers lifting their sweet faces sparkling with the fresh dew-drops,—has an undoubting assurance of his Heavenly Father's presence and goodness; and when told that these beautiful things were made by God, finds no difficulty in understanding that truth, abstract as it is in itself, and invisible though that God be. And this is so, because the innocence of the infantile mind is the very abode of angels, who