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in believing in the spirit’s separate existence. W e may con- 
ceive of the relations between spirit, soul, and body being 
greatly altered in the eternal world. Delitzsch views the soul 
simply as a connecting medium between spirit and body ; but 
this is a very imperfect view of the relation. It has far more 
than this. It supplies man with an ethical basis, a religious 
nature. Moral probation is possible on earth because man 
has a human soul. 
25. The inspired Scriptures, I think, explain nothing as to 
the manner of union between spirit, soul, and body. These 
parts of man's nature are mentioned, like the different persons 
in the sacred Trinity, but there is left as much mystery as to 
the precise nature of the union of these parts in our manhood 
as there is in regard to the nature of that union which subsists 
between the three persons in the Godhead. Yet there are 
many inferences to be drawn from the pneumatology and 
psychology of the Hew Testament which go far to settle many 
deep and interesting questions that have troubled this and 
past ages, — questions which do not, and never did, take their 
rise in any difference of Scripture interpretation; they are 
questions which originate purely in philosophy, the philosophy 
of human nature, and are imported from what is subjective 
into what is objective, from the thinking feeling person into the 
written Word of God. I will close with a few hints as to 
what I mean, showing how very many and important are the 
questions that lie for settlement at the foundation of a correct 
pneumatology and psychology. 
26. Take first the question of the relation of religion to 
superstition and infidelity . It is no mere affair of Scripture 
interpretation. Men range themselves on the one side and 
on the other quite independently of any settled views of Holy 
Scripture. The principles which guide them are from within"; 
they are either pneumatological or psychological ; but seldom, 
if ever, Biblical. The tendency of this age, in a large number 
of educated men, is to infidelity (I use the term in no offensive 
sense ; I mean by it simply unbelief in regard to the funda- 
mentals of the Christian religion), and this unbelief is openly 
proclaimed in respectable daily papers ; but no person would 
ever think of accusing the writers of these papers of a know- 
ledge of Holy Scripture. Their principles are drawn wholly 
from within, from a subjective source; they are pneumato- 
logical in an exaggerated degree, the humanizing elements of 
psychology being not simply misnamed, but displaced or left 
out in their exercises of thought. The exclusive study of 
physical science has a deadening tendency so far as morality 
and religion are concerned. The nous is strengthened by in- 
