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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: the torment it inflicted, and being a man of sterling honesty and a
fine essential simplicity of mind, he confessed at last that he
could not do so. His confidence in the benevolent intervention of
God was altogether destroyed. His book tells of this shattering,
and how labouriously he reconstructed his religion upon less
confident lines. It is a book typical of an age and of a very
English sort of mind, a book well worth reading.
That he came to a full sense of the true God cannot be asserted, but
how near he came to God, let one quotation witness.
"The existence of an outside Providence," he writes, "who created
us, who watches over us, and who guides our lives like a Merciful
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