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 declare still further the means by which such investigation is prosecuted.

Revelation, of which science and reason are servants, places the knowledge of first causes within our reach. God must be acknowledged from revelation. To acknowledge Him as a discovery of one's own mind is not to acknowledge Him. And so to worship Him, is to worship not Him, but self; for God is not an object of self-searching. This great truth is not an arbitrary one, but is founded upon the nature both of man and of God. Self-searching, such as referred to in Job, "Canst thou by searching find out God?" looks outward and down exclusively; while revelation comes by an internal way by means of things without, and as we lift our eyes in the direction from which it comes, we turn our faces toward the light. God can be known and acknowledged only by the method of His manifestation, which is revelation. "There is no searching of His understanding."

That which one may think to be God, which is the mere product of human reason, is not God, but a graven image, in no wise truly resembling God, if He is a self-revealing being. It is for such reasons that it is not sufficient to have His existence forced upon us as the inevitable conclusion of logic, nor as an essential missing link, though