211, observes, "Mr.
Spencer's conditions of pious worship are hard to satisfy; there must be between the Divine and human no communion of thought, relations of conscience, or approach of affection." ...

"But you cannot constitute a religion out of mystery alone, any more than out of knowledge alone; nor can you measure the relation of doctrines to humility and piety by the mere amount of conscious darkness which they leave.

All worship, being directed to what is _above_ us and transcends our comprehension, stands in presence of a mystery.

But not all that stands before a mystery is worship." [252] "Lay Sermons," p.

20.
[253] Loc.cit.p.