28 TOHU-VA-VOHU
short: in reference to forces, God deals as a Force; in
reference to persons, as a Person.
Passion and weakness are the sharps and flats in
the melody of our souls. It depends on the key of a
tune whether the same tones shall be sharps or flats;
and, after all, they are perhaps only the semitones of
our poor fallen nature.
If I were an infidel—which God forbid—I would
hide myself and my discoveries from sight of men.
It seems to me the strangest philanthropy to insist
upon making men unspeakably miserable by taking
from them every hope of the future, and worse than
brutes by depriving them of every ground and motive
for truth, morality or devotion.
Why anything, if all is matter, and there is neither
God nor immortality? Assuredly, no inference can
be more logical from the premises than this: ‘ Let us
eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.’
I am devoutly thankful to God for every evidence
in favour of Christianity. Hach is ajoyous discovery.