After enumerating the above books, published by writers in the Church, I suggest as in a way helpful to an understanding of the trend of modern thinking, somewhat along the lines of spiritual and scientific thought with which the Seventies of the Church ought to be acquainted, the following: _Natural Law in the Spiritual World,_ Henry Drummond, 1893. _Studies in Religion,_ Fiske. _A Century of Science,_ Fiske. _Reconstruction of Religious Beliefs,_ Mallock. _The Religious Conceptions of the World,_ Rogers. _Science and Immortality,_ Sir Oliver Lodge. All the books enumerated in the above list of works of reference may be obtained at the Deseret Sunday School Union Book Store, Salt Lake City. The Seventy's Course in Theology. FIFTH YEAR PART I Divine Immanence. LESSON I. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) IMMANENCE OF GOD. ANALYSIS. I. Definition of "Immanent." II. Distinction Between "Omnipresence" and "Immanence." III. Revelation commits the Church to the Doctrine of Divine Immanence. REFERENCES. Any of the standard dictionaries. The Scripture passages cited in the "Discussion" of this lesson. _SPECIAL TEXT: "The Light which now shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings; which Light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space." (Doc. and Cov. Sec. lxxxviii:11, 12.)_ DISCUSSION. _1. Definition of Immanent:_ The word "Immanent" means "indwelling," "remaining within;" "opposed to transient," or "transitive."[A] Such the definition of the adjective. The noun, "Immanence," is defined as "the state of being immanent," "a permanent abiding within"--"indwelling."[B] As applied to God it conveys the idea of essential and permanent Divine presence in all the universe. It excludes the idea of movement or transition from one place to another in order for the Deity to be at a given place, since immanence conveys the idea of Divine presence being already and constantly at every point in the universe; hence movement conceived as necessary to presence is not essential, but is excluded from the conception of immanence. [Footnote A: The Standard Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls.] [Footnote B: See both Standard and Century Dictionaries.] _2. Distinction Between Omnipresence and Immanence:_ It may be thought that "immanence" is but the restatement in another form, of the attribute of omnipresence in Deity--simply an affirmation of his every-whereness; and it must be admitted that there is at least a close resemblance if not identity between the two things for which the two terms stand. And yet there is a difference between immanence and omnipresence. The latter means merely the every-whereness of God, "present in all places and at the same time."[A] [Footnote A: Century Dictionary.]