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tion of God through the Spirit. But through the 

 exercise of his unique gift of liberty, sin has introduced 

 disorder into his person and life. He broke away from 

 the law of his being, from the gravitation of God, and 

 lost the cohesion of his nature, which henceforth be- 

 came disintegrated and corrupt. The flesh now lusteth 

 against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. 

 There is a law in the members warring against the 

 law of the mind. We have broken up our life into 

 little fragments ; we contrast secular and sacred, assign- 

 ing this part to the world and that to God living 

 exclusively for heaven or exclusively for earth ; wholly 

 carnal or wholly spiritual. There is a ceaseless struggle 

 within us, and a ceaseless strife without us. We are 

 the centre of a whirlpool of contending and discordant 

 forces which we ourselves have set in motion. Our 

 wheels and those of nature are out of gear, and 

 therefore continually clash. We are homeless and 

 restless in a world where all other creatures are at 

 home and at rest All the scenes and objects of 

 creation witness that we only are changed, that we 

 only have introduced disorder into God's works. Of 

 this strife the noblest spirits are the most conscious. 

 But God has not left man to be thus the only discord 

 in the music of His works. He has sent His own Son 

 to tabernacle in our world and in our nature, and so 

 establish the balance between all the parts of our being, 

 and restore the lost harmony between man and nature. 

 By His atoning death our Lord made an end of that 

 sin which caused the discord and confusion. By His 



