Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK. 165
of God, because it has not enlightened all men, and
made them virtuous and happy-upon a parity of
reasoning, nature is a failure, and therefore not of
God. Every philosopher knows, that the volume of
nature is full of wisdom, and throughout its ample
pages, replete with lessons of profitable instruction to
reflecting minds; yet undoubtedly, as few are charmed
by the voice of nature, and attracted by the beauties
of creation, as by the excellencies of Ohristianity and
the inspired word of God. Many who prof, 8 a
belief in divine revelation, entertain xceedin ly n r-
row and unworthy views of its heav nly principles,
teachings and requirements, but the same class have
equally narrow, limited and silly notions of the mate-
rial Universe. What do they know about the extent
of the empire of worlds ~ All the astronomers that
live, could never convince them, even by the clearest
demonstrations, of the revolutions, velocity and mag-
nitudes of the planets. The Catholic Bishop who
pronounced sentence of death upon Galileo, for teach-
ing that the earth revolved round the sun, evidently
comprehended the system of nature as little as he
did that of revelation."
"My inclination to unbelief, I regret to say, Mr.
Norwood, extends further than you seem to imagine;
could I stop after discarding the Bible, I would be com-
paratively satisfied, but despite all I can do, I find
within my mind a fearful proclivity toward universal
skepticism-a disposition to doubt of the existence of
God and the soul's immortality! J, however, try to