inner fires of a pure spirit. In treating reverently and searching profoundly and answering hopefully these inquiries, we draw near to those in all time whose life has been the largest, and whose vision has come to them by an ascent heavenward of their own spirits.

WE should not think it wise to offer another work on Natural Theology simply as a renewed presentation of the ingenious constructions of the world.

This work has already been admirably done and science in a hundred ways has reached the same result The prevalence of law and its many fortunate products are the staple facts of our time. In presenting the proof for the being of God, we have no longer to discuss results, but the methods rather by which these results have been reached. It is because of this new form in the theistic argument, that we wish to give it one more reconstruction. The opposition has changed front, and so renders a corresponding change necessary on the part of the defense.

This shifting of the conflict has attended on a great increase of knowledge, and new views of the methods of development in the physical world. We wish to recognize most fully the value of these attainments, and to see clearly their relation to theism. We are quite prepared to accept evolution --- the present, intellectual solvent of physical problems, --- in all the facts it offers, while we are still at liberty to give those facts the interpretation which