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perhaps, than either, may stand us in good stead 

 in the hour of need. The love of Him Who is the 

 Father of all families, of Christ Who gave Himself 

 for us, has power to stem the torrent of evil desire. 

 But not an impersonal law, nor a law which draws 

 its authority from ourselves. 



Lord, iv licit love have I unto Thy law ! It is 

 Thine, therefore I love it ; therefore I reverence 

 it; therefore I see my "best self" reflected in it; 

 therefore I obey and trust and hope. And in 

 constant meditation of Thy Law I train my con- 

 science, the organ of Divine truth. For the pure 

 shall see God ; and the meek shall He guide in 

 judgment ; and the gentle shall He learn His way. 

 Purity, humility, and gentleness, are notes of the 

 scholars of the truth. 



It cannot be that the differentiated spheres of 

 Theology and Law shall again become one as 

 under the old Theocratic idea. And yet in God's 

 purpose there is a pre-established harmony in them, 

 because both speak from Him. Their ultimate 

 unity in Conscience is no mere fact in the past. 

 They are what they are now only as Conscience 

 still lives and speaks in them, interpreting truly on 

 the one hand the Revelation of God, and on the 

 other embodying in Law its judgments, which are 

 true because they are divine. 



The two cannot be identified, and yet it is fatal 

 if we lose sight of their inter-relations, and forget 



