1. The hope of finding God. For this alone has man passed from one religion to another. (1) This God not the inert and isolated God of philosophy, lost in the solitudes of heaven: but (2) a living, present God. 2. The sorrow of condemnation. Man longs to appease a justly offended God. He therefore offers sacrifice, the produce of his fields, the first-born of his flocks, nay, his child, his brother. But it avails nothing. A sacrifice must be found that is both pure and human. For many ages man has