and pity, though they are not God, but merely a poor, weak image and
reflection of Him, yet from Him alone they come. If there is mercy
in our hearts, it comes from the fountain of mercy. If there is the
light of love in us, it is a ray from the full sun of His love.

Or honesty, again, and justice,--whose image are they but God's? Is
He not THE Just One--the righteous God? Is not what is just for man
just for God? Are not the laws of justice and honesty, by which man
deals fairly with man, HIS laws--the laws by which God deals with
us? Does not every book--I had almost said every page--in the Bible
shew us that all our justice is but the pattern and copy of God's
justice,--the working out of those six latter commandments of His,
which are summed up in that one command, "Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself?"

Now here, again, I ask: If justice and honesty be God's likeness,
who made us like God in this--who put into us this sense of justice
which all have, though so few obey it? Can man make himself like
God? Can a worm ape his Maker? No. From God's Spirit, the Spirit
of Right, came this inborn feeling of justice, this knowledge of
right and wrong, to us--part of the image of God in which He created
man--part of the breath or spirit of life which He breathed into
Adam. Do not mistake me. I do not say that the sense, and honesty,
and love in us, ARE God's Spirit--they are the spirit of MAN, but
that they are LIKE God's Spirit, and therefore they must be given us
BY God's Spirit to be used as God's Spirit Himself uses them. How a
man shall have his share of God's Spirit, and live in and by God's
Spirit, is another question, and a higher and more blessed one; but
we must master this question first--we must believe that our spirits
come FROM God, then, perhaps, we shall begin to see that our spirits