24 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



vives the amputation of its head; the stump will 

 sprout again, why not a man ? It is not a matter of 

 reason, I say again, hut of experience. When the 

 doctrine of the Trinity can be confirmed by the same 

 test, then it will be just as easy to believe it true 

 as it is that water flows or is solid according to the 

 temperature. The difficulty with the theologians is 

 that, while they so often appeal to our experience 

 in establishing their premises, they at once go be- 

 yond our experience in drawing their conclusions. 



The analogy upon which Professor Drummond 

 builds so confidently will be found comforting and 

 reassuring to those who are already of his creed, 

 but to the disinterested inquirer, determined to hold 

 fast alone to that which is verifiable, it is little 

 more than a clever rhetorical flourish. 



His argument in a nutshell is this: There are 

 three kingdoms, — the inorganic, the organic, and 

 the spiritual, — each atop of the other, and carrying 

 the same law into higher regions. There may be 

 other kingdoms, he says, higher in the scale than 

 the spiritual, or the kingdom of God, of which we 

 as yet know nothing. But of these three we do 

 know, and with these we have to deal. The law 

 of evolution works in each one of these kingdoms 

 up to a certain point, when there is a break and 

 miracle, or an outside power steps in. There is no 

 passage from the inorganic to the organic without 

 a miracle, and no passage from the natural to the 

 spiritual without a miracle. Evolution worked in 

 the nebulous matter till the worlds were formed 



