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generous towards those who, in a spirit of reverence to all truth, feel they have not yet proved a God. If one, himself, holds a steadfast belief in Him, and wishes to make others feel as he does, can he not yet see that certain minds must have what they deem facts as proofs? Can he not wait? Must others believe instantly because he does? His God must be a very small God if his impatience can hurry others into belief. To wait, and to plan while waiting, is the secret of liberality's action. The weakness of human nature is nowhere seen more strongly than in the involuntary presentation to the childishly finite mind of the infinite questions of the existence and abode of God, and of immortality. What it can never answer it first asks. Because our lives are all aglow with the hope of immortality shall we scorn another who looks upon it simply as a reward for striving here, or shall we shudder at him who looks bravely into immensity and sees nothing nearer than the

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