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CHAPTER XI.
WHAT IS GOD?
NOW we are going to begin to think about the greatest thought in the whole world.
We have thought a little about the earth and the stars, and about plants and animals and human beings. It is very easy to think about these, for we can see them.
But now we are going to think about One whom we can neither see, nor hear, nor touch, and that is the hardest thing that any one can do.
When we speak about Him and say "He" instead of saying "She" or "It," we must not think it is because God is a man, or is like a man. It would be just as true to call God our "Mother in heaven" as our "Father in heaven."
In old times people used to think God was much the same as a large, strong man. Even when they had learned better than that, whenever they wanted to paint Him in a picture, they painted Him like an old man with a white beard, for they did not know any other way to express their idea of Him.
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