PREFACE. 



when Christ next appears, and the believer, 

 with a purified soul and a resurrection body, 

 is caught up to meet the Saviour in the air, 

 and so to be "for ever with the Lord." 

 Let any unprejudiced disciple, who knows 

 experimentally what St. Paul calls " the 

 truth as it is in Jesus," carefully study the 

 following pages of Professor Drummond's 

 work ; and he will have a most valuable re- 

 pertoire of the Pauline philosophy, as it ap- 

 pears in the various Epistles which the great 

 Apostle wrote to the different Churches he 

 had founded, under the direct inspiration 

 of the Spirit of God. (See pp. 89, 104, 

 118, 135, 140, 145, 181, 169, 171-2, 176, 

 294, 309-10, 313-4, 336, 393-4.) 



I know no work which has done such 

 good service for the cause of Christ, 

 notwithstanding its blemishes, in its en- 

 deavour, on the one hand, to uphold 

 Evangelical teaching as manifested in the 

 spiritual life of a converted soul ; and on 

 the other, to show the agreement between 

 religion in its highest sense, and the 

 doctrine of true science, as Professor Drum- 



