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 and inscribed upon it Deo erexit Voltaire, "Voltaire has erected this to God." Yet did either his words or actions show anything of a religious spirit? Did they display either that reverence or obedience, that properly attends a true acknowledgment of a Divine Being, infinitely wise, good, and powerful? How can he be said to acknowledge a sovereign as a sovereign, who entirely disregards his laws and commands, and tramples them under foot? How can he be said to acknowledge God, who denies His Word?—and, still more, who rejects the Divine Saviour, "God manifest in the flesh?" "He that honoreth not the Son," said that Saviour, "honoreth not the Father who hath sent Him."

David Hume, too, by no means denied the existence of God. He even declared, at a dinner-table in the city of Paris, when surrounded by professed atheists, that he could not believe that such a being as an atheist existed. As is affirmed by his biographer, "the tone of his thoughts sometimes even rose to