logian, in a recent book, says that the philosophy of Hegel will turn out to be nothing but a narcotic-not a stimulus. This shows how little Hegel's philosophy is understood by leading Nonconformists.

The New Theology claims to give a vaster and grander conception of God than the old theology, and speaks of God as being that mysterious Power which is finding expression in the universe; this mysterious power is infinite', but what 'infinity may be we have no means of knowing,' and so the most devout Christian is just as much an agnostic as Professor Huxley.' This, we are boldly told, 'is the religion of science.' Thus we have no means of understanding the immanence of God excepting infinite forms,' and in the person and teaching of Christ. But if God is merely the immanent unknown Power, and is not known as an infinite Person, then He as the immanent Power in Christ is still unknown. Now this mode of presenting the Immanence of God is utterly unscientific, even though the claim of the New Theology is that it is the religion of science.' It is absurd to say, 'To define is necessarily to limit, and we are thinking of the illimitable,' or, to say, 'The act of creation is eternal,' if we do not know the meaning of the Eternal Personality of God. A science based on agnosticism is an absolute contradiction of terms.

We are told The Infinite Consciousness sees itself as a whole,' though this is just what the Agnostic denies. If this is so, why say God is nothing but the mysterious power of the universe and then speak of an Infinite Consciousness? Surely no one is warranted in speaking of an infinite consciousness unless he knows what it means. If the writer knows that God is an Infinite Consciousness, the same Being who is an Infinite Self-consciousness must be an

Infinite Personality. Surely man who thinks this Infinite Being must be in thought infinite, and for this reason a Person. This being so, personality cannot logically imply limitation. It is said, 'There cannot be two infinities, nor can there be an infinite and also a finite beyond it.' Just so, the infinite must include the finite, and the finite must contain the infinite. When it is said, 'All being is conscious being,' then a stone or a tree must be a conscious being! Absurd! An animal possesses sense-consciousness and is in thought limited, because it is not a self-conscious being. Man is the only self-conscious being in the world who is in thought infinite, and therefore he is a person consciously free, moral and religious.

We are told that a finite creation is a fall. If this be so, God by an act of creation loses His greatness and majesty, falls from His high estate, and thereby becomes a fallen being, which is absurd; similarly, then, man will fall by creating any finite object, as a watch. But the real fall is the moral fall of man, not the fall of God.

When the Rev. R. J. Campbell says, 'Our true being is eternally one with the being of God,' and 'to be separated from a full knowledge of that truth is to have undergone the fall,' he is stating the true Biblical position, but not the evolutionary idea, which holds that man has risen from lower types, not 'fallen' from a higher: besides, he elsewhere implies that man cannot separate himself from God. In one sense this is true, but the restoration of the true idea of the Atonement and of the Cross of Christ belongs to the philosophy of Hegel and not to the so-called New Philosophy of Theology, for Hegel teaches that the evil done by man can be undone through the love of God in Christ.

Under the influence of this unscientific science of

evolution, which is said to teach a vaster and grander conception of God,' we are asked to believe that God was so weak that he required eternal ages to create man by evolution, for it is now the fashion to speak of creation by evolution, as the new theologians do not wish to break away altogether from the idea of creation. Darwin, however, more consistent with his theory, would not have creation in any form. Lyell could not give up the idea of creation even to please Darwin, who in writing to Lyell frankly said: 'I grieve to see you hint at creation of distinct successive types as well as of a certain number of distinct aboriginal types. Remember, if you admit thisyou cut my throat; and your own throat; and I believe you will live to be sorry for it.' Creation and evolution are mutually exclusive; Huxley said it must be Evolution or Creation-not creation by evolution, yet strictly he would have no or; only evolution.

The True Immanence of God is the logical Idea of the system of the categories of the Being and Thought of the Ego; and the true Transcendence of God is the Idea of the Absolute Self-conscious Spirit of the universe in essential identity with the absolute logical Idea; and this identity is the Absolute Personality of God. The false conception of the Immanence of God is what the New Philosophy and the New Theology name the mere abstract, infinite and eternal Power or Energy of the Universe; and which maintains that the only conception or thought man can have of Personality is Limitation. The former is scientific theology, the latter unscientific; that is, the former is substantially the old theology, while the latter is the sophistical new theology.

Let any man realize to himself what self-consciousness means, and he has a true conception of the infinite

transcendence of God, for a merely immanent God without the transcendence of self-consciousness is no God at all.

To summarize: The whole difference between the old theology and the new, and between the fundamental principle of the old philosophy and the new, may be stated thus: the former begins with the idea of the omnipresence of human thought in essential unity with the thought of God as an omnipresent personal spirit, while the latter starts from an inveterate conviction that human thought is necessarily finite and limited on all sides. The former is the theology and philosophy of the Bible and logical Reason. The latter is 'the lie and the bad,' which has its origin in the blinding and bewildering influence of guilt, arising from the consciousness of having knowingly yielded to the doing of an evil action, as decisively stated in the words of Christ, 'This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil, for every one that doeth evil hateth the light.' The former is speculative philosophy, thinking the infinite as that which is positively rational, the opposite of what is falsely called rational. It is the substantial element in real mysticism which is at once subjective and objective, the light of God. Speculative is another name for the true rational. The latter is the scepticism wherein man has lost the knowledge of his true oneness with God. Thus the loss of man's knowledge of his unity with God is the real Fall of Man. The New Theology may be named the doctrine of the Fall of Man, and is even a 1 It is remarkable that the teaching of Aristotle is essentially one on this point with the teaching of Christ: For wickedness perverts the judgment, and makes men err with respect to practical principles; so that no one can be wise and judicious who is not good' (Aristotle, as quoted by Bloomfield).

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more subtle and delusive danger to the Christian and Protestant spiritual life of the nation than Roman Catholicism, for the poisonous nature of the latter is more generally known in England than the former, though they both deal with the Bible according to the unscientific spirit of each, and both ignore the science of Concrete Logic, or logical philosophy.

Guilt implies a fall into sin, for sin and evil are inconsistent with the real nature of man's being—the image of God. The disposition to do evil actions implies a fallen state. Sacrifice also implies a fallen state, with a desire to obtain forgiveness of sin, but in the case of Christ, His sacrifice of Himself in a sinful world is the manifestation of the wisdom, power and love of God as the means of man's restoration to a knowledge of loving fellowship with God. Reconciliation to God is by the Cross of Christ, the bearing of which is the condition of discipleship. The Cross, then, is the fundamental principle of the Atonement of Christ.

Logical Science, Logical Philosophy and Scriptural Christianity are essentially identical.

Logical Philosophy is the wisdom of God, and is fundamentally the principle of evangelical theology.

The so-called New Philosophy and New Theology are the wisdom of this world, which knows not God. They are the wisdom of this world, which is foolishness with God.

The so-called science of the new philosophy of theology is the same false principle of wisdom which Paul calls the wisdom of this world, that knew not God, and that comes to nought." It is a clear and distinct fall on man's part from the wisdom of God, which is one with the Concrete Notion of Kant, logically expounded in the philosophies of Hegel and Stirling,