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and the same sublime result, the salvation of every 

 soul in every world. By this " salvation " I mean 

 the establishment — in the temporal as well as in the 

 eternal or causative life of every spirit, and from 

 and by that causative life — of the dominant love of 

 righteousness, and the everlasting progress of each 

 soul thenceforth in bearing its rescued " natural 

 being " toward the goal of completely possessing 

 the image of God. 



Any interest my thoughts on this subject may 

 have for you must turn upon the way in which the 

 reconciliation of the two contrasted ideas is worked 

 out in them, — if indeed it be worked out. So I 

 must try to show you what I think Determinism 

 and Freedom severally are, when deeply and abid- 

 ingly defined ; how their reality is for each of them 

 made sure and stable ; how their harmony follows 

 naturally and easily from their genuine ideas ; how, 

 in fact, this harmony is involved in their necessary 

 and complemental relation to each other ; and how, 

 finally, out of their incessant joint action in the life 

 of every mind the inspiring result arises of a uni- 

 verse evermore freely moving to a higher and higher 

 harmony with God. 



It is a judicious remark of Dr. Gordon, in which 

 he follows the lead of Frederick Denison Maurice, 

 that the key to Jonathan Edwards's genius in the- 

 ology was his possession by the idea of the Divine 



