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 Again, as it is evident that man can not find out God by his own searching, and as the object of human existence is, in the Scriptural sense, to know God, and thereby to receive from His wisdom and love, it is not possible that God would create a race without revealing Himself to it; for in so doing He would not only fail in providing for His own children, but by neglect He would defeat His own design.

There is something peculiarly inconsistent in the tenets of Materialists who upon the one hand avow that God is absolutely unknowable, and upon the other that religion is a product of Evolution. Indeed one assertion contradicts the other, for religion is nothing other in its essence than the knowledge and worship of God, who is absolute love and wisdom or goodness and truth, and the only source of these things as they exist with man. They are led to think of God as absolutely unknowable because the knowledge of Him surpasses the ability of the senses to grasp, yet in some way they must account for the knowledge of Him that the world possesses.

It is true that if the knowledge of God depended upon evidences procured by the natural faculties