The same insurmountable difficulty confronts us when we seek to imagine a First Cause. […] In the awful grandeur of that loneliness, desolation, and chaos, God we know, however, existed and called the universe into being. […] “In two-faced Janus we this moral find, — While we look forward, we should glance behind.” […] Moloch is figurative of the influence which impels us to sacrifice that which we ought to cherish most dearly. […] Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.