|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: absent, and be his Witness, and secure his Contracts in future
Generations. A manifest as well as admirable Indication of the
divine Superintendence and Management."
A God so careful as to make provision even for the unmistakable
signing of bank checks and deeds was a deity truly after the
heart of eighteenth century Anglicanism.
I subjoin, omitting the capitals, Derham's "Vindication of God by
the Institution of Hills and Valleys," and Wolff's altogether
culinary account of the institution of Water:--
"The uses," says Wolff, "which water serves in human life are
plain to see and need not be described at length. Water is a
| 
