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 rate and accurate reasoning, but from the promptings of native instinct. Nothing can successfully prevent him from seeking the aid; likewise it is impossible to prevent the yearning soul from supplicating the help and guidance of Him who has created the soul and has been mercifully showering invaluable blessings upon it. Both are acts of spontaneity; and set reasoning cannot influence them materially either way.

Nor is there anything opposed to reason in the several elements of Divine worship. Worship is generally divided into adoration and thanksgiving, confession and supplication, repentance and self -surrender. Is there anything unreasonable or improper in these religious exercises? To adore Him who is supreme and to praise His excellences and celebrate His glory can never be improper. There can be nothing unbecoming in man humbling himself before his Creator and imploring His help and guidance. When will man be acting more in accordance with his sense