God attested in the goodness of his works, yet unrecognized and unacknowledged. This paradox is intelligible, but only as a moment in the exercise of freedom and discernment. Either the works must decay and lose their goodness for us, or the immortal goodness from which they spring must come to be acknowledged. The good unbeliever, we may say, exists, but does not subsist. A sense of obligation and unbelief in God may occur together in one mind, but it is not a stable condition; it will evolve one way or the other, since the decision about the reality of good must finally be encountered and
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