The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03
DRUMmoND's BOOK ONCE MORE.

"Hawkeye's" Answer TO Portions of GLOW
ards" Recent Criticisms.
BROTHER SwAW-You say you are sur
prised at my criticism OF Drummond's
Natural Law in the Spirit World"
read the work very carefully / had
his Love the Greatest Thing in the
World" and was so delighted with it that
! sent for this, and read the preface and
introduction with pleasure and but little
objection.
Thought he ought to have name ii
Spiritual Law in the Natural World"
On page 81 he says, $50 the spiritual world
becomes slowly natural and the natural
world becomes slowly spiritual" Mature
is not a mere image or emblem of the
spiritual. 1t is a working model of the
spirltal" The earth is crammed with
heaven. and every bush afire with God"
Page AZ he SAYS, AS the natural laws
are continuous through the universe of
matter and of space, as will they be con-
tinuous through the universe of spirit"
Same page: MANY OF the natural laws
have no connection whatever with the
spiritual world" | call this plain con-
tradictlon. Again, page so, he SAYS:
"At the beginning OF natural life we find
the law that natural life can only come
from pre-existing natural life" So there
is no natural man now, and never has
been, only as he came from pre-existing
natural man. Page 81 he SAYS ito call
this q material world is an absurdity." So
then to call man a material, as natural
man, is also an absurdity. So man is not
born of the flesh" but the spirit. There
was no "pre-existing" flesh" for him 10
be born of.
Pages y and 10: 1.-THE spiritual man is
more distinct in point of fact from the
natural man than Is the plant from the
stone" Compared with the differ
ence between the natural and
the spiritual the gulf which divides the
organic from the Inorganic is hairs
breadth" THE natural man is endowed
simply with high quality of the natural
animal life. But il is life of so poor a
quality that it is not life at ALL" Where
was this "Dre-existing poor quality of
ife?" where tho antecedent poor life ?"
The barrier which separates kingdoms
from ono another restricts mind not less
than matter"
mo organic change, no modification of
environment, no mental energy, 10 moral
effort. no evolution OF character no prog
Tues VI CANAilLdllon Chn 6uuOW any single
human soul with the attribute Of spiritual
life" "Nor is the natural man refused
admission on unexplained grounds. His
admission is a scientific impossiblity."
The natural man cannot receive the
things of the spirit of God neither can he
know them. He must be born again, and
IS as helpless as stone, plant, or an ant
NAL. On page II he SAYS: degeneration
has not been an outstanding difficulty,
but an overwhelming obscurity." Man is
helpless as a stone. Degeneration is
the possibility of life embraced by the
majority OF mankind" more difficult
still is the life OF upward growth" "Men
attempt il for time and despair over
takes them. while the good is far away"
Degeneration is easy." "Why2" al.
ready in each mans worry nature this
principle is supreme" HE feels within
his soul a silent drifting motion impelling
him downward with irresistible force"
Pages So and So. And then say this is
because "he simply let his life run" Be-
cause be neglected to rise to life beyond