None was there to dispute her incoming.
The dark eyed sorceress had fled.

And as with overflowing heart she passed with quickened step along the corridor toward the nursery she called in tremulous accents:

"My darlings! O my darlings!"

Overjoyed at once more hearing that voice, always loving, always kind, her little daughters came bounding from the room crying:

"Mamma! Mamma! Mamma!"

With fast flowing tears she knelt and clasping both of the little forms to her bosom, rapturously kissed their sweet faces. Then gazing upward with streaming eyes she faltered:

"There is a God!"

CHAPTER VII.

DESULTORY OBSERVATIONS.

Annihilation Abhorrent to Reason-What Is Always Was and Ever Will Be Bestir or Perish the Universal LawThe World Owes No Man a Living Without Value Received-The Impure Are Self-Exterminating.

The First Estate is not exempt, nor has it ever been exempt, from infestation of Doubters, Scoffers, Infidels.

But in this, the Second Estate, incredulity disappears. Herein the Soul gathers irrefragible evidence of the existence of God from actual and continual contact with His All-pervading Spirit. Such practical proof does away with waver and unbelief.

And WHAT IS, always was and ever will be. Contrary assumption is paralogism. Let it be repeated, there is no such thing as Annihilation.

Annihilation implies the substitution of vacuity for created objects, or of Nothing for Something.

That Deity indulges in such whimsey is abhorrent to reason. The conception is a figment of finite abnormality.

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