The true relation of morality and religion, as contrasted with each other, is that of the facts from which they respectively spring, under one spiritual constitution. Morality in this contrast defines the limits and the laws of action between man and man religion, between man and God. As religion rests on the more comprehensive and momentous facts, so its impulses are proportionably fundamental but as morality touches more nearly the daily life, as religion resolves itself into duties at this very point, morality must be the body of which religion is the spirit. If we come to regard religion as a sort of disembodied presence, to which all things are possible, the weakness of our moral temper is already apparent, and is sure to issue in a fanaticism of faith, and later a decay of faith, incident to the feebleness of the spiritual life. The vigor of spiritual life, as of all life, is found in the even balance of functions, of inner impulses and outer activities.

§ 7. Religion arises from our belief in the supernatural, and this supernatural finds its seat in God. The facts which we entertain as facts under this notion, and chief among which is the government of God, give rise to all the peculiar sentiments of religion. While it is not, perhaps, quite impossible, it is very difficult, logically to elevate natural theism into a religious faith emotionally, and therefore practically, it cannot be done. By natural theism we understand a recognition of the absolute universality of physical, causal laws in