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science has to deal with facts and with all facts, and 

 the facts and processes which have received the name 

 of Christian are the continuations of the scientific 

 order, as much the successors of these facts and the 

 continuations of these processes due allowances be- 

 ing made for the differences in the planes, and for the 

 new factors which appear with each new plane as 

 the facts and processes of biology are of those of the 

 mineral world. We land here, not from choice, but 

 from necessity. Christianity it is not said any par- 

 ticular form of Christianity but Christianity, is the 

 Further Evolution. 



" The glory of Christianity," urged Jowett, " is not 

 to be as unlike other religions as possible, but to 

 be their perfection and fulfilment." The divinity of 

 Christianity, it might be added, is not to be as unlike 

 Nature as possible, but to be its coronation ; the ful- 

 filment of its promise ; the rallying point of its forces ; 

 the beginning not of a new end, but of an infinite 

 acceleration of the processes by which the end, eternal 

 from the beginning, was henceforth to be realized. 

 A religion which is Love and a Nature which is Love 

 can never but be one. The infinite exaltation in qual- 

 ity is what the progressive revelation from the begin- 

 ning has taught us to expect. Christianity, truly, has 

 its own phenomena, its special processes, its factors 

 altogether unique. But these do not excommunicate 

 it from God's order. They are in line with all that 

 has gone before, the latest disclosure of Environment. 

 Most strange to us and new, most miraculous and 

 supernatural when looked at from beneath, they 

 are the normal phenomena 01 altitude, the revelation 

 natural to the highest height. While Evolution never 



