The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 18: what you’re looking at

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PREFACE. Xl some immediate knowledge of Himself? Why does He not write His moral nature’ in large let- ters upon the face of History. . . . .° On the contrary, He is specially a ‘Hidden Gop.’ .... My true informant, my burdened conscience, gives me at once the true answer to each of these antagonistic questions:—it pronounces without any misgiving that Gop exists :—it pronounces too quite as surely that I am alienated from Him; that ‘ His hand is not shortened, but that our ini- quities have divided between us and Gon.’ ” Dr. Newman, having thus spoken of the appa- rent absence of Gop from His own world, touch- ingly illustrates his argument by bringing before us the misery that we see around us. “Not only is the Creator far off, but some being of malignant nature seems, as I have said, to have got hold of us, and to be making us his sport. Let us say there are a thousand millions of men on the earth at this time; who can weigh and measure the ageregate of pain which this one generation has endured and will endure from birth to death? Then add to this all the pain which has fallen and will fall upon our race through centuries past COME HOO) SS (CO mn