Yet  we  need  not  science  to  teach  us  this.  It  is  the  thought
which  oppresses  very  childhood — the  overpowering  thought
of  space.  A  child  can  put  his  head  upon  his  hands,  and
.think  and  think  till  it  reaches  in  imagination  some  far  dis-
tant barrier  of  the  universe,  and  still  the  difficulty  presents
itself  to  his  young  mind,  "And  what  is  beyond  that  barrier  ?"
and  the  only  answer  is,  "  The  high  and  lofty  place."  And
this,  brethren,  is  the  inward  seal  with  which  God  has  stamped
Himself  upon  man's  heart.  If  every  other  trace  of  Deity  has
been  expunged  by  the  fall,  these  two,  at  least,  defy  destruc-
tion— the  thought  of  eternal  time,  and  the  thought  of  im-
measurable space.
