ABSTRACT
The childlike heart—this is the Psalmist’s happy possession—happy because it is a heart at peace, which neither the sorrows nor the problems of life have power to disturb. But it is happy, too, because the temper it betokens is the wise and right temper, one which befits the denizen of earth, the child of God. People are entitled to rank this Psalmist with the mystics, with those religionists who, disdaining, or distrusting, all attempts to prove God, are content to experience Him, or who find the very fact of their experiencing Him the one irrefragable proof of His reality. Both methods, the intellectual and the spiritual, have had their vogue in well-nigh every age, though probably the Psalmist’s is the older. The man who depends upon reason alone for his faith is lost. As to the superstructure let there be free inquiry ; but for the foundation people must fall back, in the last resort, upon intuition alone.
