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Circulation Office: 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago. Editorial and Advertising Office: 135 Liberty Street, New York City. I B e l ie v e in G o d By EDWARD ROCHE HARDY, JR. Of The General Theological Seminary Faculty HERE are three ways in which any intelli­ serve their beauty. Our minds are ever working T gent man believes in God, even though he to find out what is true and reasonable; and in may not use conventional religious language. Only our lives we endeavour to discover what is good. a fool, or a very special kind of philosopher, Goodness, truth, and beauty exist in a different doubts that the physical universe is a realm of way from that in which stars and goldfish exist, order, subJect to rational description. We expect but their existence is equally real,— and more events in that realm to happen in dependable important. The world we live in is not only a ways, following the observed uniformities which world of natural order. It is also a world of spir­ we call natural laws. Fire will always heat water itual reality, and any complete view of the uni­ rather than cooling it, and heavy obJects dropped verse must account for that as well. This spir­ in the air will move towards the earth. The laws itual reality, moreover, finds its clearest expres­ of physics describe the movements of baseballs, sion in great personalities. The moral integrity and also those of the moon and the satellites of of a Socrates and the poetic insight of a Shakes­ Jupiter; the elements which the spectroscope dis­ peare are somehow part of the texture of our covers in distant stars are the same we know on world. earth. We now know that the universe is more A third aspect of reality may be described in complicated than when men thought that the sim­ the words of St. Paul, “ the whole creation groans ple rules of high school physics and chemistry and travails” (Rom. 8:22). The history of life would describe everything in heaven and earth. on this planet is a story of mighty strivings, the Einstein is only one of many modern scientists process we call evolution, in which higher forms who have shown us that the real nature of the of life have appeared. In human history the world, from nebula to electron, is beyond human process is speeded up. Our race is constantly en­ imagination, and only partially describable by deavouring to master its environment, and to human thought. The power from which the uni­ understand it, and begins consciously to “ look verse springs, whatever it be (not to say at this before and after, and long for what is not.” Mod­ point, “ he” ) is far greater than man. The Psalm­ ern philosphers have revived an old word in this ist put it more simply: connection, and say that there is in life a nisus, When I consider the heavens, even the work a tendency to press on,—towards what? Shall we of thy fingers; say towards deity? This cosmic striving has, we the moon and the stars which thou hast must add, a tragic side.