74 The same principles probably CHAP. 



the mass through elect individuals. And Christ 

 afterwards said to the spiritual children of Abraham, 

 " Ye are the salt of the earth ; ye are the light of the 

 world" 1 the salt which preserves a sinful world 

 from total corruption, and the light of a world which 

 but for them would have lain in darkness. Nature, 

 history, reason, and revelation, unite in teaching that 

 the Divine way of doing good and furthering pro- 

 gress is through "favoured races " and elect Churches; 

 and the progress is due to the victory and survival of 

 the best, who are naturally selected ; the selection is 

 natural, that is to say, it is wrought in the natural 

 course of things. This constitutes an analogy between 

 the Divine methods in the Kingdoms of Nature and 

 of Grace, both closer and more important than any 

 of those insisted on by Professor Drummond in his 

 Natural Law in the Spiritual Wwld. 



It appears in the highest degree probable that the 

 same is true in the spiritual and eternal world. We 

 are not taught to regard that world as one of mere 

 restful happiness ; on the contrary, Christ's parable 

 of the Pounds describes it as a world of effort and 

 active service. 2 All who believe in the existence of 

 an eternal world, where the spiritual elements of our 

 present life shall be continued in existence free from 

 the entangling restraint of its material elements and 

 surroundings, believe also that the good will there be 

 victorious and the evil defeated; and it is scarcely 



1 Matt. v. 13, 14. 

 2 "Have thou authority over ten cities," Luke xix. 17. 



