William James Roe

“ This is the region of the science of religion, the region of the paradox, where the inconceivable is as certain as the inevitable ; where loss is not failure, but success, where, like Columbus, we sail west, confident of finding there our orient. ”

“ When I discern an eternal principle for each temporal incident; when I see the accuracy with which all the phases and forms of nature perform their tasks; when I see how immeasurably more intelligent the “atom " is than I, the conclusion is irresistible that the universe is endowed with more than intelligence. That consciousness which is fulfilled in all living cannot fail with life itself. There may be no a God; but there is God, and that Being is more than con- scious. He is consciousness self. ”

“ These are religion's industrial arts, which can only be carried to perfection when the truth upon which they must be based to make them effectual is recognised as science. Faith in axioms is the foundation of exact science. Credulity no longer imposes upon thought ; science does not profess beliefs, it states facts. - That which in ourselves we recognise as conscious- ness is a function of the three absolute existences. We combine in our individual unity the trinity of relation in our being, of action in our energies, and of volition in the motives that move us. ”