fruitless speculation. Not only are there other truths than those which fall within the province of "abstract" or "experimental reasoning," not only are there higher truths, and infinitely more important, but they are more real, more certainly ascertainable, than any facts in the material world. It is not only the things we see, and hear, and touch, of which we can attain to any knowledge. The soul, God, eternity, these realities lighted up for us by the light which falls on them from the words and the life of Christ, and borne witness to by the voices, accordant here, wherever else they may differ, of the purest, and the noblest, and the truest of our race—men, many of them who stand foremost in the ranks of intellectual distinction, as well as great with moral greatness-are realities which shall last when "the sun himself shall die."

"Whether we be young or old,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinity, and only there :

With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort and expectation and desire,

And something evermore about to be."

WORDSWORTH, The Prelude.

ST DAVID'S COLLEGE, LAMPETER,

March 1, 1869.

It rests upon two facts-the Resurrection of Christ-the inner

life of the Spirit:—The Resurrection in accordance with the

analogies of Nature

92

APPENDIX

121

LECTURE I.

THE FUTURE LIFE.

ECCLESIASTES III. 18-22.

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

THERE are some questions which can never lose their interest, and which from time to time present themselves with fresh force and fascination. They are ever old and yet ever new; old as the heart of man and yet new as the dawn of infancy. Men have thought they have found a solution, or have abandoned them in despair, and yet they start up and confront us again, as if they had never gained

P. H. L.

1