my inclinations. There is the voice which bids us
gratify the desire of the eyes. She "saw that the tree was pleasant to
the eyes." The world is full of beauty. Let me make that my end, the
satisfaction of the aesthetic sense; let me rest in the contemplation of
that beauty, which was made for me, and I for it, precisely in order that
I might not find repose there, but might be led thereby to Him Who made
this scene so fair that His dear children might be drawn to Himself, Who
is the eternal and uncreated loveliness.

There is, lastly, the voice which bids us gratify the desire of the mind.
Eve "saw that the tree was to be desired to make one wise." I desire to
know. Let me indulge this desire at any cost, even if it mean the
filling of my mind with all manner of foul and loathsome images. It is
all "knowing the world." We forget, poor fools, that mere knowledge is
not wisdom, and that there is a knowledge which brings death.

The desires of the body, the eyes, the mind, are good and healthful and
holy in their proper place and sphere. Through these we reach out to the
life and love and knowledge of God. And yet, if gratified against the
dictates of that clear-sounding, inner, Divine Voice, they are precisely
the materials of sin and death. To gratify them against the dictates of
the moral and spiritual nature is to exclude oneself from the garden of
God's delight, from the health and joy of the Divine Presence. We know
it. We have learnt it by saddest experience of our own. To sin against
the voice within is to find oneself separated from God; the ears of the
soul have become deaf to the warnings of conscience, the eyes of the soul
blind to the vision of the glory and holiness of God.

Is it wrong to say that such teaching as this can never be outgrown?
That, as time goes on, as the spiritual experience of the race and of the
individual grows and broadens, still new lessons may be found to be
contained in it?

The Bible adds to the teaching of science that without which that
teaching is incomplete. It bids us know and feel and recognise the
Divine Presence within us and, in the light of that ultimate truth of
ourselves, realise something of the appalling grandeur of the issues of
common life. But, different as are the forms in which their respective
lessons are conveyed, science and the Bible unite their testimony to that
of experience and conscience, that the Christian estimate of sin, and not
the