He acknowledges Him as the great Creator, and through all surrounding mysteries and disappointments, is satisfied with this conclusion as to the future,
“Thou art just.”
This conviction is enough.
“Thou seemest human and divine,
The highest, holiest manhood, thou”—
God incarnate, to whom we must become spiritually united,
“Our wills are ours, to make them thine,”
as expressed in Poem cxxxi., stanza 1.
“Our little systems” “are but broken lights of thee,” even as the colours of the rainbow are the broken lights of the sun.
“We have but faith: we cannot know;
For knowledge is of things we see.”
Faith apprehends things which are spiritual, and do not come within the range of our senses; whilst knowledge accepts only what can be seen and understood.