ii Revelation is suggested by Human Nature. 19 



thing not even suggested by the world in the midst 

 of which it appeared 1 ? Surely the relation of the 

 spiritual to the natural life is very different from this. 

 So far from coming as a surprise to the supposed 

 angelic observer, the wonder would be that it had 

 not come long before. The coming of Christ into 

 the world, with the gift of the Holy Spirit and the 

 promise of eternal life, would be seen to reveal the 

 meaning of that wonderful human instinct of wor- 

 ship, and to provide, for the first time, a perfectly 

 worthy Object for the human powers of reverence 

 and love. 



Drummond's theory of Regeneration raises this 

 further difficulty : If it is true, as he teaches, that 

 spiritual life is not conferred on the race of man by 

 creation, but only on a chosen few by conversion, 

 how can we resist the conclusion that resurrection and 

 a future life are for the just alone, and that the un- 

 just perish like the beasts'? In reply to this he 

 rejects such an inference with a mere protest. At 

 the end of a most eloquent and true exposition of the 

 nature and meaning of judgment, showing that it is 

 in no degree arbitrary, but is the natural and 

 necessary consequence of sin, he goes on to say 

 " Should any one object that from this scientific 

 standpoint the opposite of salvation is annihilation, 

 the answer is at hand. From this standpoint there 

 is no such word." x Why not ? Does he mean that 



1 Natural Law in the Spiritual World, p. 117. 



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