Excerpt from Cumming's Minor Works: The Finger of God, Christ Our Passover; The Comforter Wishing and desiring life, and the painful certainty staring them in the face that annihilation is eventually and eternally before them 7 Atheism seems, in pro portion as it is realized, a burden intolerable to man. One, however, rejoices that the utmost that the Atheist can reach is Atheism; he can never reach the point of Anti-theism - that is to say, all that he can assert is, I have never discovered the presence of God. He proclaims his weakness, not disproves God's being. But what are you? Because you, the worm of a day, have been so blind as not to see the presence of a God, surely you dare not say there is none; for how do you know that the place you have not pierced, that the height you have not soared to, that the depth you have not descended to, may not be the scene Of the lesson-book that has inscribed upon it, luminous and indelible, There is a God? Therefore, for you to say, There is no God, because I cannot discover him, is equiva lent to stating that you are God, and have been every where in the universe, are, in fact, omnipresent and omniscient; and thus in your denial Of God, you have proved that you are God yourself, which is absurd. But there was, also, the admission, on the part Of the Egyptian magicians, that God is and acts. Many people admit that God was, but how few of us feel, as we ought, that God is! Many have the notion of God, that he launched the earth in its orbit, and left it to make the best of its way home. Their idea is that God created us at the first, gave us a certain supply of Vital power, just as a locomotive has a certain available amount of steam, and then left us. This is not true. God is, as well as was. God is in every one of us, acting, controlling, governing, helping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.