the welfare of the human race:--

There is Almighty God;
Does He hate any one?

He reigns in glory.--The soul of King Wen, father of the King Wu below,
and posthumously raised by his son to royal rank, is represented as
enjoying happiness in a state beyond the grave:--

King Wen is on high,
In glory in heaven.
His comings and his goings
Are to and from the presence of God.

He is a Spirit.--Sometimes in the _Odes_ there is a hint that God, in
spite of His anthropomorphic semblance, is a spirit:--

The doings of God
Have neither sound nor smell.

Spiritual Beings.--Spirits were certainly supposed to move freely among
mortals:--

Do not say, This place is not public;
No one can see me here.
The approaches of spiritual Beings
Cannot be calculated beforehand;
But on no account should they be ignored.

The God of Battle.--In the hour of battle the God of ancient China was