In natural science you are dealing with what is by hypothesis beneath you—with nature that is devoid of personality. But in religion "you deal with one who is above you, who transcends personality. In the former case you have to do justice to your powers of observation and comparison; in the latter case you have to make the best of those powers that issue in repentance and faith. If you are to get the right angle for your argument you must "draw near with reverence." Indeed there is a kind of reverence ra-quired in' the investigation of the lowliest forms of nature. Even the chemist or the physicist secures cleanness and stillness for his experiments. Why? These are not intellectual conditions. No, but they represent the fact that you cannot rush into tha apprehension of truth. There must, be a certain preparation, in fact a certain reference, lest by carelessness or clumsiness you should hide or lose a fact worth knowing. How much more emphatically this is true of inquiries for God! How preposterous to sup) we can understand on intellectual lines alone.
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