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and dust draws its conclusions of Deity and man, law and gospel, leaving science at the beck of material phenomena, or leaving it out of the question. To begin with the divine noumenon, Mind, and to end with the phenomenon, matter, is minus divine logic and plus human hypothesis, with its effects, sin, disease, and death. It was in this dilemma that revelation, uplifting human reason, came to the writer's rescue, when calmly and rationally, though faintly, she spiritually discerned the divine idea of the cosmos and Science of man.
Whither?
| Father, did'st not Thou the dark wave treading |
| Lift from despair the struggler with the sea? |
| And heed'st Thou not the scalding tear man's shedding. |
| And know'st Thou not the pathway glad and free? |
| This weight of anguish which they blindly bind |
| On earth, this bitter searing to the core of love; |
| This crushing out of health and peace, mankind — |
| Thou all, Thou infinite — dost doom above. |
| Oft mortal sense is darkened unto death |
| (The Stygian shadow of a world of glee); |
| The old foundations of an early faith |
| Sunk from beneath man, whither shall he flee? |
| To Love divine, whose kindling mighty rays |
| Brighten the horoscope of crumbling creeds. |
| Dawn Truth delightful, crowned with endless days, |
| And Science ripe in prayer, in word, and deeds. |
