PREFACE. 



mend's Natural Law in the Spiritual World 

 has done. Happy would it be if all who 

 profess a love for the Scriptures and the 

 interests of science, could realize what 

 Dr. McCosh has so well said in his Method 

 of the Divine Government. " Science," he 

 observes, " has a foundation, and so has 

 Religion. Let them unite their foundations, 

 and the basis will be broader, and they 

 will be two compartments of one great 

 fabric reared to the glory of God. Let the 

 one be the outer and the other the inner 

 court. In the one, let all look and admire 

 and adore ; and in the other, let those who 

 have faith kneel and pray and praise. Let 

 the one be the sanctuary, where human 

 learning may present its richest incense as 

 an offering to God; and the other, the 

 holiest of all, separated from it by a vail 

 now rent in twain, and in which on a blood- 

 sprinkled mercy-seat, we pour out the love 

 of a reconciled heart, and hear the oracles 

 of the living God." 



Although it is certain that never before 

 has real, true, genuine science achieved 



