A Colloquy.
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Chance and change are busy ever,
Man decays and ages move;
But His mercy waneth never, —
God is Wisdom, God is Love.
Now if it be true that God's power never waneth, how can it be also true that chance and change are universal factors, — that man decays? Many ordinary Christians protest against this stanza of Bowring's, and its sentiment is foreign to Christian Science. If God be changeless goodness, as sings another line of this hymn, what place has chance in the divine economy? Nay, there is in God naught fantastic. All is real, all is serious. The phantasmagoria is a product of human dreams.
