"And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful."[A] [Footnote A: Revelation xxi; also xxii.] LESSON VI. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) DOCTRINE OF DIVINE IMMANENCE IN THE NEW DISPENSATION: RECONCILIATION OF DIFFICULTIES. ANALYSIS. I. Difficulty of Regarding the Infinite Power of the Universe as Both Immanent and Personal. II. Revelation Represents the Infinite Power of the Universe as Personal. III. The Nature of Man Requires the Infinite Power to be a Personal Intelligence. IV. Reconciliation of Difficulties in Doctrine of Immanence as taught in the New Dispensation. REFERENCES. The Scriptures and other works in the text of the lesson. _SPECIAL TEXT: "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin worms shall destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: though my veins be consumed within me." (Job xix:25-28.)_ DISCUSSION. _1. Immanence and Personality--a Difficulty:_ The view here presented of the Immanence of God in the world doubtless contributes in a helpful way to the advanced thought of the modern world in striving to arrive at a knowledge of things as they are, as they have been, and as they shall be--the truth.[A] [Footnote A: Doc. and Cov., Sec. xciii:24.] Modern thought has forced the conclusion upon men's minds that there is a power immanent in the world--here and now, and always has been; and so far as man can see there always will be; it is eternal--"both ways"--to use a phrase of Professor Le Conte's, looking forward as well as backward, when using that word "eternal." It is the eternal cause of things, variously named "energy," "force," "spirit," or simply "power," used in some cases with the prefix "mechanical" or "infinite" or "Divine" or the "Unknowable" according to the view point of the speaker or writer; but by most philosophers recognized as "the infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed," and "which is the same power that in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness;"[A] and which by theists of all classes is recognized as God. But those who long to conceive and in their lives feel the need of conceiving of this universal "power" or "spirit" or "force" or "energy"--"the infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed"--meet with the difficulty of forming the conception of a "power, infinite, and all pervasive," and at the same time personal, since it is held by philosophers of high authority--and deservedly so--that "personality and infinity are terms expressive of ideas which are mutually incompatible."[B] How then shall this difficulty be overcome? Professor Le Conte, a most conscientious man of science, and also a most devout Theist, says, "The only rational view is to