wherefore, and the answer, received to his inquiry was: "What I do thou
knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter."

And in the grand hereafter, when the films of ignorance and the
warpings of prejudice and superstition shall have melted away under the
bright sunlight of Eternal Day, it is not impossible that our vexed,
inquisitive, worrying opponents may be permitted to look back over the
pathway this order has traversed, glance at the work that has been
wrought and peradventure discover how unreasonable, as well as
fruitless, has been the warfare they have been pleased to wage with
such persistent fury. A long time to wait, maybe, but then good things
do not come rapidly nor all at once. Meanwhile, to encourage them in
their waiting, their watching and their worrying, let them take this
lesson from the same Great Teacher: "The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh
or whither it goeth." Ah, no! it will not do, because you can not see
and comprehend all of everything, inside as well as outside, to
conclude that it must necessarily be bad. Adopt that theory, and you
not only fly in the face of reason, but bump your head against almost
everything in nature, in art and in science.

Secrets! yes; they are within us and without us, above us and beneath
us and all about us, and "what are you going to do about it?" Well
might Israel's old and gifted poet king write: "We are fearfully and
wonderfully made," soul and body, the mortal and the immortal, the
material and the immaterial, strangely and mysteriously conjoined!
God's secret, this! Will you denounce Him and withdraw allegiance from
Him, for the reason that He fails to make clear to you a clear and
satisfying revelation? The same old singer said thousands of years
ago, "The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth