that God is an ever-present help in all times of trouble,—

have found Him so; and would have no other gods, no [5]

remedies in drugs, no material medicine.

Do I believe in a personal God?

I believe in God as the Supreme Being. I know not

what the person of omnipotence and omnipresence is,

or what the infinite includes; therefore, I worship that [10]

of which I can conceive, first, as a loving Father and

Mother; then, as thought ascends the scale of being to

diviner consciousness, God becomes to me, as to the