be surprised if the true God does not pay any attention to it. You need not expect that the true God will make any reply to petitions offered to any other being. The true God exists both in time and in space, and has as much relation to them as man or any other being. He has extension, and form, and dimensions, as well as man. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place--can eat, drink, and talk, as well as man. Man resembles him in the features and form of his body, and he does not differ materially in size. When he has been seen among men, he has been pronounced, even by the wicked, as one of their own species. So much did he look like man, that some supposed him to be the carpenter's son. Like man, He had a Father; and he was "_the express image of the person of the Father_." The two persons were as much alike in form, in size, and in every other respect as fathers and sons are of the human race; indeed, the human race are "_his offspring_," made in his likeness and image, not after his moral image, but after the image of his person. There is no such thing as moral image. Such an image cannot exist. Morality is a property of some being or substance. A property without a substance or being to which it appertains is inconceivable. A property can never have figure, shape, or image of any kind. Hence, a moral image never had an existence except in the brains of modern idolators. The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. The substance of which he is composed is wholly material. It is a substance widely different in some respects from the various substances with which we are more immediately acquainted. In other respects it is precisely like all other materials. The substance of his person occupies space the same as other matter. It has solidity, length, breadth, and thickness, like all other matter. The elementary materials of his body are not susceptible of occupying, at the same time, the same identical space with other matter. The substance of his person, like other matter, cannot be in two places at the same instant. It also requires _time_ for him to transport himself from place to place. It matters not how great the velocity of his movements, _time_ is an essential ingredient to all motion, whether rapid or slow. It differs from other matter in the superiority of its powers, being intelligent, all-wise, and possessing the power of self-motion to a far greater extent than the coarser materials of nature. "God is a _spirit_." But that does not make him an immaterial being--a being that has no properties in common with matter. The expression "_an immaterial being_," is a contradiction in terms. Immateriality is only another name for nothing. It is the negative of all existence. A "_spirit_" is as much _matter_ as oxygen or hydrogen. It has many properties in common with all other matter.