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are manifested, there must be an absolute Reab'ty 

 behind. That is the conclusion of philosophy. Since 

 natural phenomena exhibit the characteristics we asso- 

 ciate with mind when we meet them on the smaller 

 scale, and since such queer things as moral judgments, 

 for instance, do exist in ourselves, the Absolute Reality 

 must be a Personal God. That is the conclusion of 

 metaphysical theology. 



Again, historically, Christ did come into the world and 

 teach certain things, and many claim to have personal 

 experience that what He taught is true. There was a 

 coming of the Holy Ghost in power, whatever that may 

 mean; and its practical effect was the vitalising of the 

 Christian Church under conditions which, humanly 

 speaking, and for a false religion, were hopeless, since 

 the Church consisted mainly of illiterate men, living in 

 a conquered country torn with political dissensions; 

 amid a people whose religious leaders were occupied 

 with a stern struggle for formalism, not freedom ; amid 

 a people destined shortly to cease to be a nation, to be 

 submerged in the sweeping tide of excellent, if worldly, 

 government, and then to be given over to disorder and 

 oppression. 



The threefold activity of God is a reality, not a 

 theory. It is His actual revelation of Himself in cos- 

 mical conditions. 



So too is the threefold activity of man a reality. And 

 our study of the limited personality of which we have 

 immediate experience leads us to realise that each man 

 is really three persons, and only becomes a true unity 

 when these three persons are all active equally. 



Lastly, let us again formulate, quite definitely, what 

 are these three persons of personality for such we must 

 call them. A perfectly clear statement on this matter 

 is essential, for here is the thread which must connect 

 together all the many things we have yet to consider. 

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