science, literature, art, trade, but, as to serving God, they will have none of it. The spirit of this age is too much that of Pharaoh. “Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice?” To the philosophical mind it seems to involve an absurdity to serve a being whom you cannot see, whose voice you cannot hear, and whose existence is unfelt by the unspiritual, unawakened mind. Therefore the wise man turneth upon his heel, and saith that he will serve any other master sooner than serve the Lord. The