"Can you tell me, Walter, the meaning of the word infinite?"
"Yes, mamma; father explained it to me. God is infinite because he extends through all space, and without limit."
Mrs. Dermott rose, and drawing up the window curtain, called her young audience to view the beautiful stars which spangled the sky. Fixing their attention upon one brighter than the rest, she said, "Isabelle, does not that seem a great way off?"
"O, yes, mamma."
"Well, if you could approach it, and look out just as far beyond, you would only be looking upon the beginning of the infinite space filled by God.
"Eternal means the same with regard to time as infinite does with regard to space. When we have lived hundreds of thousands of years in the eternal world, we shall be not one minute nearer the end of our existence. God never began to live, and he never will cease to live.
"Helen, the other day you were complaining that the rules or regulations of your school were so often changed that you could not remember them. You can never complain thus of God, for he is unchangeable. The apostle James says,—
"'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.'
"God says of himself,—
"'I am the Lord; I change not.'