"house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." This new house, as already intimated, may probably be the present earth, purified and made ready for the glorified man's abiding place, at least until he is prepared for other spheres, and then he will be transferred to these, exactly as his progress may demand.

I have aimed to deal mainly with the new man in Christ Jesus, his conflicts with the forces of evil, and his final victory through "Him that has loved us, and given himself for us." Apart from this particular history of man, I have not thought it proper to say more than seemed really necessary to meet certain questions which could not be safely passed by in silence. No doubt some of my positions will be respectively opposed by critics representing different schools. I could not hope that this would be otherwise. Many of the views presented and expositions of Scripture given are quite different from those commonly accepted. This fact, of itself, is sufficient to challenge unfriendly criticism, for the reason that conservatism always defends what was yesterday believed to be true, no matter whether it is true to-day or not. But however this may be, I desire that what I have written shall be subjected to every known test of truth, and whatever will not stand this test ought and will finally take its place among the things "rejected" in that long catalogue wherein are recorded the failures which have resulted in the struggle for the "survival of the fittest."

CHAPTER II

The Old Spiritual Man-His Creation

"Sicut Augustinus docet, in hujusmodi quæstionibus duo sunt observanda. Primo quidem ut veritas Scripturæ inconcusse teneatur. Secundo, cum Scriptura Divina multipliciter exponi possit, quod nulli expositioni aliquis ita præcise inhæreat, ut si certa ratione constiterit hoc esse falsum quod aliquis sensum Scripturæ esse credebat, id nihilominus asserere præsumat; ne Scriptura ex hoc ab infidelibus derideatur, et ne els via credendi præcludatur.-S. THOMAS, De Opere Secundae Diei: Summa, Pars. 1, Quæst. 68, Art. 1.

"As Augustine teacheth, there are two things to be observed in questions of this kind. First, that the truth of Scripture be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Divine Scripture may be explained in many ways, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should turn out to be plainly false, he would nevertheless presume to put it forward; lest thereby Sacred Scripture should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers, and the way of salvation should be closed to them."-SAINT THOMAS, On the Work of the Second Day.

"Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be."-GEORGE FINLAYSON.

"Now the basest thought possible concerning man is that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual-coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other."-JOHN RUSKIN.

"Alone in aeons of uncounted years

Has God unrolled the splendor of the world;
The All came not by single action hurled,
But slowly, mid the sound of strife and tears.
Nought yesterday existed as appears;
Unseen the change, but each dawn's light, unfurled,
Means upward step, with beauty rarer pearled.
God's ways are slow; he hastens not, nor fears,
To all life's word he holds the infinite rime;
He understands beginning and the end.
Why need he then to hasten to complete,
Since in eternity he works, not time?
Impatience must men's thoughts alone attend,
They have to-day; to-morrow may not greet."
JANE DRANSFIELD STONE.

CHAPTER II

The Old Spiritual Man-His Creation

"If a material element, or a combination of a thousand material elements, in a molecule are alike unconscious, it is impossible for us to believe that the mere addition of one, two, or a thousand other material elements, to form a more complex molecule, could in any way tend to produce a self-conscious existence. Either all matter is conscious, or consciousness is something distinct from matter; and in the latter case its presence in material forms is a proof of the existence of conscious beings outside of, and independent of, what we term matter."-A. R. WALLACE, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection.

"Wherever we find life, we find it clothed in a distinctive, visible and tangible form. This outward garb of life presents infinite variety, a variety far greater than that which distinguishes from each other the various forms of inorganic matter, i. e., matter which has no immediate connection with life. Yet amid infinite variety of form, all living objects, animal or vegetable, are closely related both in their chemical composition, their cellular structure, and even in the functions of vegetable and animal life. Moreover, te various kinds of animals are, in different degrees, similar even in the general arrangement of their bodies."-J. AGAR BEET.

"All sorts of men, that live on Earth,
Have one beginning and one birth.
For all things there is one Father,
Who lays out all, and all doth gather.

He the warm sun with rays adorns,

And fills with brightness the moon's horns.

The azured heavens with stars He burnished,
And the round world with creatures furnished.

But men-made to inherit all

His own sons He was pleased to call,
And that they might be so indeed,
He gave them souls of divine seed.

A noble offspring surely then
Without distinction are all men.
O, why so vainly do some boast
Their birth and blood and a great host
Of ancestors, whose coats and crests
Are some rav'nous birds or beasts!
If extraction they look for,

And God, the great Progenitor,
No man, though of the meanest state,
Is base, or can degenerate,

Unless, to vice or lewdness bent,

He leaves and taints his true descent."

BOETHIUS, translated by Henry Vaughan.

AN IMPERATIVE NEED.

NE of the imperative needs of the present day is a well-defined, well-understood Christian Psychology. Such a Psychology would necessarily include a Scriptural Pneumatology. The spirit-world is no longer a myth or a superstition; it is a reality in the faith and experience of modern life. Recently there has been much said about Theology. In some quarters it has been affirmed that Theology serves only to darken counsel rather than clarify it. This, however, depends upon the kind of Theology in use. Undoubtedly, it is possible to have a Scriptural Theology, and this ought always to be helpful. But it is more than probable that a Scriptural Theology depends upon a Scriptural Psychology. The latter is evidently fundamental in any trustworthy religious thinking. Our divine Lord himself clearly teaches that if we cannot know earthly things it is impossible for us to know what is heavenly; consequently, if we cannot know something of the laws of the human mind, how can we construct a rational Theology, when this has to do with the infinite mind?

When discussing the relations of Science and Religion, it is now very generally conceded that there is a striking