by the desertion of his wife, says, "O that I knew where I
might find him." David cries out while his tears are flowing day and
night, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when
shall I come and appear before God?" Moses, in the broadest of
visions, material, historic, prophetic, says to God, "Show me thy
glory." And common men have always turned the high places of earth to
altar piles, and blackened the heavens with the smoke of their
sacrifices. But the means of knowing God are to be increased. The
very essence of life eternal is to know the true God, and Jesus Christ
whom he has sent. Great pains have been taken to manifest forth God to
dull senses and to oxlike thoughts here; greater pains, with better
results, shall be taken there. Every reader of the Apocalypse notices
with joy, if not rapture, that when the book that was sealed with seven
seals, which no man in heaven, nor earth, was able to reveal, nor open,
nor even look upon, was finally opened by the Lamb, and its marvelous
panoramas, charades, and symbolic significances had to be carefully
explained to John, the man best able of any to understand them--we
observe with rapture that the regular inhabitants of that hitherto
unseen world understood all at once, and broke into shouts like the
sound of these many waters in a storm. Above all these superior
manifestations in finer realms the pure in heart shall _see_ God.

III. But there is in space what there was before the world began.
Philosophy asserts that the invisible universe is a perfect fluid in
which not even atoms exist, and atoms are produced therefrom by the
First Great Cause by creation, not by development. This conception is
full of difficulties to thought. We cannot even agree whether creation
was in time or eternity. But all agree in this, that the invisible is
rapidly absorbing all the force at least of the visible universe, and
that when force is gone the corpse will not remain unburied. Indeed,
when the range of seeing puts the size of an atom at less than one
two-hundred-and-twenty-four-thousandth of an inch, and when the range
of thinking puts it at less than one six-millionth of an inch, many
prefer to consider an atom as a center of force and not as a material
entity at all. But, amid uncertainties, this is certain, that the
forces of the visible worlds are extraneous. They come out