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Rh type; if such a man should happen to disagree with the ecclesiastical superior who is in authority over him, it will be owing to the disturbing accident of some other having gained a stronger hold on his mind. But the man who, like Baxter, writes hymns about taking refuge in an Ark, is normally a heretic by the very nature of his mind; a natural Free-thinker, born to be a reformer and an Apostle of the Hidden Logos. There are, indeed, some who express the sense of trust in God without reference even to an intervening Ark; they find sufficient security in the very Law of the Storm itself. He who is scientific enough to know the rhythmic pulsation which is revealed in the Law of the Storm, feels sure that it will cease when the appointed time has come. Suggestions of this feeling are common in the Hebrew Scriptures; the following is a modern English instance:—

"O'er this fair and blooming earth, When the rushing storm has birth,  And the winged lightning flies,  And the tempest rends the skies,  And the sea with deafening roar  Rolls its strength along the shore;  Yet within its limits' bound  Raves that storm its little round.  O'er the flood Jehovah reigns,  Ever He a King remains.

"From the sphere of human things, When Peace waves her parting wings,  Bidding mighty Nations quail  At the Future's opening veil;  Famine lift her withered hand,  Battle waste a sinking land,