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all things," 1 when all enemies shall be abolished, 

 and God shall be all in all. 2 I shall have to speak 

 at fuller length on this subject in the chapter on the 

 Final Destiny of the Rejected. 



I deny, as emphatically as Professor Drummond, 

 that regeneration is a merely natural process. 

 Spiritual life is not merely natural, just as organic 

 life is not merely physical and chemical. There are, 

 as he has shown, three kingdoms, or Divine admin- 

 istrations, not excluding each other, but as it were 

 successively superimposed. First is the inorganic 

 kingdom, or that of mere matter and force. Second, 

 the organic kingdom, or that of Life, having its 

 highest development in the mind of man. These 

 two together constitute the world of nature as 

 opposed to the spiritual world. Above these is the 

 spiritual kingdom, which is related to that of nature 

 as the organic world to the inorganic. All these, 

 though not equally near to God, are alike His crea- 

 tion ; and although Professor Drummond does not 

 remark this God has chiefly manifested His might 

 in the inorganic kingdom, His intelligence in the 

 organic, and His moral nature His holiness and His 

 love in the spiritual. 



1 Acts in. 21. - 1 Cor. xv. 24, 28. 



