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reveals to us the truth that moral freedom is the soul 

 of our soul, and the soul of Divine government, if 

 Divine government indeed there is. Let the two 

 apparently contradictory voices confront each other 

 for a while — the voice that calls for proofs, for ijifer- 

 cntial justification, and the voice, still deeper, that 

 calls for righteous warrant, for moral justification. 

 In the end our decision will be, that, while neither 

 voice can be stilled, the moral voice has primacy, 

 and the voice for inference must seek satisfaction 

 more subtly than by searching in the harsh paths of 

 merely natural or temporal power. Perchance the 

 " great category of Cause " has resources that give 

 to creation and to regeneration, both, a greater real- 

 ity of meaning than efficient causality can provide. 

 Perchance, when this deeper and richer interpreta- 

 tion of cause comes to knowledge, the real witness 

 of God will appear — the witness to the Spirit, 

 to the Eternal Love, who thinks only in terms of 

 spirit, has only free minds for his realm, and, himself 

 free with perfect moral freedom, reigns there through 

 the free processes of the living souls themselves. 



Let us reiterate, therefore, that the demand for a 

 moral world is a demand for a world of freedom — 

 a world of genuine persons, beings who think their 

 own thoughts, originate their own decisions, yet 

 really do think, not ruminate merely, and so decide 



