asked: "How many angels stand on the point of a needle?" It is not recorded of any wise man that he was conceited enough to fancy that question could be lightly answered. The Father of the Calculus cautioned his readers not to despise The Infinitesimal; and a greater teacher even than Newton assured us that The Almighty does not disdain to reckon such trifles as the hairs on our heads. The Lord's People, of old, were encouraged to revel in mingling Gold and Blue and Purple and Scarlet; because it was felt that the combination of all incongruous colours into one harmonious Rainbow is a token (all the surer for being intangible and evanescent) that the Forces of destruction which threaten to overwhelm man shall be restrained for the salvation of those who trust in the Unity of God. For the Hebrew, the Rainbow was to be a token that God would interpose at last on behalf of His People. But our Father Odin taught that the Rainbow is a bridge, by trusting to which a brave soul can, on its own feet, so to speak, reach the home of the Divine.
CHAPTER XIV
THE SCIENCE OF PROPHECY
"Truth for ever on the scaffold,
Wrong for ever on the throne.
But that scaffold sways the nations;
And behind the dim Unknown
Sitteth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch over his own."
A great deal has been said and sung about the beauty of Truth, and its perpetual conflict with error. To the
