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that his own admiration may be approved by the praise of his fellows. The child scarcely looks at his new-found wonder till he runs for sympathy in the admiration of his peers. Then let the bold author affect to despise the world that denies him: he is not strengthened by foreign distrust. Let every man boast that nine out of ten are fools, and himself is a tenth man,—let him change a hundred times, and still insist that he is right at last,—yet only the sympathy of others can pacify his conviction. He finds himself a monster when none will agree with him; and he cannot lie down to die in peace, saying, "I alone of all God's creatures know the truth of God."

SECTION V.

THE BURDEN OF THEOLOGY.

The burden of all theology has been to find the reason of pain in the present life, and to find hope in a life that shall be joyful, through the unwavering love of God. Theology for the most part, making much of the responsibility, and somewhat of the power of man, will have him win joy through duty, on peril of remediless woe. Our theology, making nothing of the power or responsibility of man, will find God making him continually wiser and freer,

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