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and occult agency of an omnipresent Deity in our 

 human life to leave room for that freedom for which 

 Dr. Gordon himself partially contends, and upon 

 which, in its unabated completeness, genuine human 

 goodness and a government really divine are, for 

 me, irreversibly conditioned. No genuine, no com- 

 plete freedom for the human spirit, then no 

 real righteousness, no supremacy of a true God, 

 nothing really Divine in all the universe ! 



But as in my way of stating the conditions for 

 our freedom, and the corresponding relations be- 

 tween God and other beings, I have to depart so 

 far from Dr. Gordon's that I fear he would dissent 

 from my views because they seemed to him not 

 sufficiently religious, — even to him, — I can hardly 

 hope that they will appear entirely religious to you. 

 For the sake of that freedom which is the soul of 

 righteousness, that righteous justice which is the 

 soul of a Divine sovereignty, and that exhaustless 

 though indeed severe love which is the very soul of 

 God, I am led to state God's creative and regenera- 

 tive supremacy in a fashion that can hardly fail to 

 wear in your eyes the look of making away with it 

 altogether. So, at least I fear, the case must appear 

 to you at first ; and perhaps for a long time. 



Nevertheless I offer you these views in good faith, 

 and not wholly without good hope also ; for I am 

 convinced they arc true, and I feel that their truth 



