proposal. But how true this is to nature! The student, as a precocious schoolboy, thinks that he knows all that can be acquired of a certain branch of science; but twenty years after he feels as if he had not mastered its elements, though he has never ceased to study. The believer who began by speaking of himself as “the least of saints” ends by calling himself “the chief of sinners.” And Moses, who had run before God in feverish impatience, now lags faint-hearted behind Him. At first he expostulated: