my purpose that this point shall be clear beyond all question. To that end I shall put forth a familiar statement of the case, which should put the matter forever beyond controversy. It is necessary that every mind shall give assent to the fact of the impossibility of there being more than one God.
Every one admits that in the very nature of the case God is infinite. It is an attribute which the adherents of all religions accord Him. They cannot avoid it, for it requires an infinite being to create and rule an immeasurable universe; it requires an infinite being to be without beginning or ending in point of time; it requires an infinite being to possess and be the source of all love, all wisdom, and all power. We attribute all these things to God. We cannot conceive of two definite Divine beings existing from eternity to eternity in the form of two creators and two rulers of the universe. Such a thought is as monstrous to the reason as it is foreign to the Bible. Nor can we conceive of two who are infinite in love, wisdom, and power, for infinity is indivisible, The moment that we speak of two infinites we are speaking of the impossible. The very quality of infinity implies that the one
