"God is the power and cause of all things and the Supreme Intelligence."

Many have said that God is infinity, but it should be remembered that God is infinite in His Power and Perfections of all things; but "infinity" is an abstraction, and to state that God is infinity is to ignorantly substitute the attribute of a thing for the thing itself, and to define something unknown by referring to some other thing equally unknown.

The proof of the existence of God (which the writer desires to be understood as meaning the Supreme Intelligence and First cause and Power of all things) lies in the axiom which is applied in all the sciences and arts of mankind, viz.: "That there is no effect without cause." Seek ye out the cause and whatever is not the work of man has its first origin in God, and to prove to yourself the existence of God you have only,to look around you on the works of His creation. The worlds exist, therefore they have a cause, and if you doubt the existence of God you doubt that every effect has a cause, and are assuming that the Great Universe, which lies directly under the control of the Supreme Creator, has been made from nothing.

Every human soul infers from intuition the existence of God, for from whence could the human soul and mind of man derive this intuition if it had no real foundation, and the direct inference to be drawn from this Divine intuition is a carollary of the axiom. There is never effect without cause.

If our intuitive sense of the existence of God were the result of education and ideas acquired by religious ideas and teachings how could this intuitive sense be possessed by the savage? Again if the intuition of the existence of a Supreme Being were only the result of religious education it would not be so universal, and would only exist like all other superficial knowledge, in the minds of those who had received the special education to which it would be due.

To attribute the first formation of things to the essential properties of matter would be to take the effect for the first cause, for those properties are an effect which must have a cause.

To attribute the first formation of things to a for-tuitous combination of matter, in other words, "Blind chance," is in itself another absurdity, for who that is possessed of common sense can regard chance as an intelligent agent, and, besides, what is Blind Chance? Answered, Nothing! for the harmony which regulates the mechanism of the universe can only result from combinations adopted in view of predetermined ends, and thus, by its very nature, reveals the existence of an intelligent Power. To attribute the first formation of things to blind chance is substituting ignorance for intelligence; for if chance could be intelligence it would cease to be chance.