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the wide expanse of heaven; infinitely further than the imagination can possibly reach. But notwithstanding the great Eternal be thus everywhere present, and of course nigh unto all of us, yet, fallen man, nevertheless, stands at an awful distance from him. The Omnipresence of God is one of his natural attributes. It follows as a necessary consequence of his existence. It is just as impossible for the Creator not to be Omnipresent, as it is for him not to exist. And that the non-existence of the Deity is impossible, is clear from what strikes our senses in every direction. We see, for instance, a variety of living creatures on the earth, in the air, and in the waters. And we know that they could not create themselves; they must depend upon some other cause for their existence; and that cause must be absolutely independent; for an eternal succession of dependent beings is impossible. There must be an end to the chain of secondary causes,