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THROUGH LOVE
BACCALAUREATE S E R M O N
OF 1893
length and breadth," and "all the depth and height "
of truth. "'To apprehend," as our Revised Version
rightly corrects the older translation, not "to compre-
hend "-to grasp, that is, the real though partial know-
ledge, with which in respect both of Nature and Hu-
manity we are wisely content, without waiting for the
complete demonstrative knowledge, of which necessa-
rily a finite mind is incapable in contemplation of the
infinite, and which accordingly in us is possible only in
relation to the creations of our own minds, impossible
in relation to the creations of a higher Hand.
Through such apprehension there is, first agrowth in
"the length and breadth," the visible and obvious ex-
pansion of our knowledge. This expansion is not only
continuous and irresistible, but it has its increase (so
to speak) of acceleration, as the age8 roll on, Mar-
6 BACCALA UREATE SERMON.