Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 2.djvu/171

 ed out, the garden of God's truth would be a real Eden—the eternal abode of God.

It is the confluence of these two vital principles of Catholicity and Synthesis that gives to Theism its breadth of outlook and its continuity of progress. Without Catholicity, it would be too narrow for our growth; without Synthesis, too chaotic for our trust and hope. It may be that unto "sectaries" its Catholicity will appear a confounding vagary; as to "free-thinkers" its Synthesis will seem a relic of ancient bigotry. But unto the eye of faith in a living and loving God, Theism, as the resultant expression of the joint work of these two vital principles, is the "whitest" spiritual light into which close, as in a heavenly harmony, the varied charms of the rainbow.