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dences. But this is not a fair assumption even from 

 a scientific standpoint. Science affirms the univer- 

 sality of energy and law ; Christian theology accepts 

 this fundamental postulate of science and says it 

 is the result of universal spirit and will, or In- 

 finite Mind and volition, which is back of universal 

 energy and law. Energy is spirit and will at work ; 

 law is the mode of work. Energy and law are deriv- 

 ative, spirit and will is the primary and ultimate 

 force of the universe. 



But says the unbelieving scientist, " I accept energy 

 and law as facts, but do not see that spirit and 

 will are facts." Christianity replies: "You mean 

 by 'see,' mental sight; for in the physical sense you 

 can no more see energy and law than you can see 

 spirit and will, or mind and volition. 



"The fact is, science is a search for the invisible 

 or supersensible for that which lies beyond sense 

 and vision. You call it energy and law, which we 

 say is a result and not a cause, and point to 

 spirit and will, which is the primitive, ultimate, first 

 cause of universal energy and law. 



"Would you feel it a just description of yourself 

 if you were described as nothing but a system of 

 energy and law. Energy is action according to 

 law. But there is psychical energy as well as phys- 

 ical energy, or 'a double faced' unity psychical 

 on one side and physical on the other. Thought, 

 feeling, volition are all species of energy subject to 

 laws of their own. And, what is most wonderful, 

 while they are invisible and intangible they control 

 all physical energy in man and all animal organ- 

 isms, just as universal spirit and will or volition 

 control all energy and law in the physical universe. 



