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GOD MANIFEST:

A TREATISE ON THE

GOODNESS, WISDOM, AND POWER OF GOD,

AS MANIFESTED IN HIS

WORKS, WORD, AND PERSONAL APPEARING:

SHOWING, ALSO, HOW

E PERMISSION OF MORAL AND PHYSICAL EVIL IS RECONCILABLE WITH THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.

Thomas Oliver BY THE

REV. O. PRESCOTT HILLER,

AUTHOR OF "PRACTICAL SERMONS," ETC.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year, 1858, by

O. PRESCOTT HILLER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

PREFACE.

the following work, the author has sought to solve me of the great problems of the "mystery of life," der the bright light of the New Dispensation, in nich light alone they are solvable. He has endeavored trace both moral and physical Evil to their true urce: to show that the latter is but an effect of the mer, and that the former is simply the result of a rversion of man's faculties, the possibility of which rversion was necessarily implied in his existence as a e and rational being. The origin of the Diseases, ich so widely afflict mankind, is also attempted to shown: the origin, also, of fierce Animals, and of xious and poisonous Plants and Minerals; the ises, too, of Poverty in social life, of Tyranny in itical life, and of Wars between nations. And, rywhere, the great object has been to make it in that with man himself, and not with the good ator, lies the responsibility for all these evils. On the other hand, in all the uses and beauties of natural world, in all that is good, true, and happy ongst men both in time and eternity, the prece, the operation, the creating and sustaining power made manifest, and all the glory is shown to belong to Him alone. In the wisdom of a Socrates, the genius of a Shakspeare, the goodness and greatness of a Howard and a Washington, everywhere, the writer has sought to display a present God. Above all, the volume of the Holy Word is shown to be truly God's voice speaking to men, and Jesus Christ, the Saviour, to be God appearing and made visible to

the some good and wise Being

cought to ha

men.

In attempting to set forth in a single volume so various and important truths, the author was aware of the difficulties of his task. With what degree of success it has been executed, will be left to the reader to determine. He can only say, that, in every part of his work, he has continually looked up for aid and guidance to the great and good Being, whose love and wisdom he was striving to set forth, and that, in answer to that prayer, he was conscious continually of His supporting Hand. He trusts, therefore, that the work, thus executed, will have the Divine blessing, and be found useful to his fellow-men.

August, 1858.

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