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hear what Professor Drummond really 

 teaches on this subject " Should any one 

 object, that from this scientific standpoint 

 the opposite of salvation is annihilation, the 

 answer is at hand. From this standpoint 

 there is no such word. Each man in the 

 silence of his own soul must 'work out 

 this salvation for himself with fear and 

 trembling ' with fear, realizing the mo- 

 mentous issues of his task ; with trembling, 

 lest before the tardy work be done, the 

 voice of Death should summon him to 

 stop" (pp. 118, 119). 



Again, hear Professor Drummond declar- 

 ing 



" Hitherto the Christian philosopher has 

 remained content with the Scientific Evi- 

 dence against Annihilation For the first 



time Science touches Christianity posi- 

 tively on the doctrine of Immortality. It 

 confronts us with an actual definition of 

 Eternal Life, based on a full and rigidly 

 accurate examination of the necessary 

 conditions. Science does not pretend that 

 it can fulfil these conditions. Its votaries 



