And our Relation to Him in Creation and Redemption. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, Cloth, price 6s. PRESS NOTICES. "A series of singularly suggestive and thoughtful papers on Biblical themes."-London Quarterly Review. "A remarkable book, so fresh and stimulating that it seems to the wearied reader a veritable oasis."-Manchester Examiner. "This is a real book. The perusal of only a few pages is sufficient to convince the reader that he has before him a piece of honest work by an able and independent thinker. It is to be hoped that this remarkable volume will receive from the intelligent members of our congregations the attention which it deserves."-The Baptist. "A devout and Christian spirit pervades the whole, and there are many evidences of study and culture that cannot fail to gratify the educated reader."-The Rock. "The Visible God' contains some of the kindest and wisest words ever addressed to those engaged in Sunday School work."-The S. S. Chronicle. "The people who for twenty-six years enjoyed the rich and pregnant teaching which this volume represents were privileged with a completeness of spiritual culture that we rarely meet with."-The Independent. "The volume is an honour to the intelligence and free thought of Nonconformity."-The Christian World. "All the essays are written with much point and grace."— Methodist Times. "The author writes in a clear and vigorous style, often rising His book claims to be into passages of genuine eloquence. a new Christology, and will be found to amply justify the claim."-Scottish Leader. "Independent thinkers will revel in this book. Reverent in tone, loyal to Scripture, clear and definite in statement, it is nevertheless bold and original. We do not criticise its teaching, but it is given with such earnestness, definiteness, and reverence of appeal to Scripture, that it demands a respectful hearing from all qualified to deal with these great matters."The Christian. LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON. NATURE AS A BOOK OF SYMBOLS BY WILLIAM MARSHALL SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED London HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW MDCCCXCV "The invisible things of God, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made."-Paul the Apostle. "All things in Nature are prophetic outlines of Divine operations, God not merely speaking parables but doing them."Tertullian. "The visible works of God are formed to lead us, under the direction of His Word, to a knowledge of those things which are invisible; they give us ideas by analogy of 'a new creation,' and are ready to instruct us in the mysteries of faith and the duties of morality."-Bishop Horne. "This earthly world which we do see is an exact picture and pattern of the spiritual and heavenly world which we do not see."-Kingsley. "All the universe is written to me; I must get what it means." -Walt Whitman. BX 7233 M35m 1895 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ONE of our critics has told us that "Man cannot exist, at least intellectually, without symbols and signs of various sorts and kinds, and the phenomena of Nature lie readiest to his hand, or rather to his eye, for this purpose. As such, they have been used by the poet and seer in all ages. It does not follow, however, that all signs are equally appropriate and if it be suggested that this was the primary purpose of the great objects of the natural world, or indeed entered into their original purpose at all, common sense begins to demur." what kind of "common sense," we inquire? The common sense of a savage is not the same as the common sense of a philosopher, and that of a merely natural man or an agnostic may be very b N.B.S. V But 807290 |