objects themselves occupy TIME, the laws by which they are governed are in ETERNITY.

The entire sphere of action of SENSE and UnderSTANDING is completely exhausted in the blue field of our Diagram. Out of the limits of TIME and SPACE these faculties cannot act. Yet the mind will exert itself on spiritual things. The question, then, naturally arises Is this an illusion? or are we justified in this procedure? Yes, most certainly we are; because we are provided with a faculty on purpose to construct spiritual objects. This faculty is PRACTICAL REASON, which originates the Moral Law - that law by which all our motives must be tried sufficient assurance of our ultimate destination of the immortality of the soula future state of rewards and punishments: none of which could subsist and be effective without a Supreme head, a TRIUNE DEITY.

It is our duty now to show that both SPECULATIVE and PRACTICAL REASON act and are constructed on the Triune Principle. Out of the laws of UNDERSTANDING, which are the twelve Categories, REASON-that faculty which elevates man above the brute, and expands the finite to the infinite constructs a set of triads. We

have already satisfactorily shown that every finite thing

in nature consists of three elements united in one. The

matter of nature is Sensation.

REASON, however,

excludes the matter of nature, and is only occupied with its form. Now, the forms in which nature is clothed are neither more nor less than these twelve laws of UNDERSTANDING the Categories. But what can be more distinct from matter than form. Form is merely the manner of arranging parts-consequently only a law, or necessary principle, to which the parts must submit. REASON connects the three laws of QUANTITY-Unity, Multitude, Totality-and produces a unity quite distinct from nature, free from TIME and SPACE: thus it generates the idea of an Infinite or Absolute Totality, evidently constructed in conformity with the Triune Principle. The same process repeated with the three laws of QUALITY- Reality, Negation, Limitation produces Infinite or Absolute Limitation,

that is, the idea of restriction among Spirits, who are infinite in their nature, consequently not even conceivable by finite beings.

The three laws of RELATION produce three distinct and very important ideas—a striking confirmation of the Triune Principle. A bare inspection of the Table of UNDERSTANDING shows at once that each of the

only three possible relations in nature are individually compounded of three elements. REASON instantly seizes the first of these triads, out of which it constructs an idea, that furnishes the key to the whole Christian Doctrine. The substances in nature are finite in their duration in TIME. REASON extends this notion to the infinite, and thus raises the idea of the Soul, which it places in ETERNITY. If the immortality of the Soul could not be justified by REASON, the "Divine Revelation" of Jesus Christ could not be appreciated by man. It might as well be addressed to the Ass or the Elephant. We are, however, too well acquainted with the sublimity and divinity of this "Revelation" to question its truth. Thus, then, from the three laws of UNDERSTANDING, or the first Category, under the head RELATIONSubstance, Accident, Connexion - being carried by REASON to the infinite, it raises the idea of an Absolute or Infinite Substance, which, as it cannot exist in TIME, it places in ETERNITY. Now, according to St. Paul, the soul, being a spiritual substance, is and ever was in ETERNITY. This truth, being confirmed by the simple efforts of REASON, Stamps the seal of divinity on that "Revelation," which points out the only road to salvation. May we not join with heart and hand in

thankful remembrance of that Redeemer who, in ages long gone by, assured us of a truth which Science has at length unfolded—that at the present moment our soul inhabits the infinite region of Eternity! Oh! the

overwhelming thought the soul is immortal! and in a constant state of perpetual approach to the perfection of Him who made it - the Almighty and Everlasting God! Is this not an important idea!

The second Category, under the head RELATION, consisting of the three laws of UNDERSTANDING Cause, Effect, Connexion-whose application in experience is always of a limited duration and of a finite extent, when carried by REASON to the infinite, generates the idea of a power free from all the restrictions of TIME, having its full force only in ETERNITY. This is the idea of a First Cause, one where every thing originates from itself. Surrounded as we are by natural objects, the least reflective mind must consider these objects — among which he places himself — as having a Cause: SPECULATIVE REASON carries this notion to the infinite. But, as it always bottoms on INTUITION, this procedure is termed the light of nature. Whatever powers we may attribute to this First Cause, we always do so with a Cosmological reference. Hence arises

Deism, that is, a religion proceeding as far as it can by the light of nature, rejecting all "Revelation" because it may be spurious. Out of the idea of an Absolute or Infinite Cause arose that once favourite system, the animus mundi. How worthless and unprofitable are the utmost results obtained by experience to establish Religion, when compared with the absolute purity of the "Divine Revelation" of our blessed Redeemer, through which alone we can work out our salvation.

The third Category, under the head RELATION, consists of the three laws of UNDERSTANDING - Action, Reaction, Connexion - whose influence pervades all nature nay, it is the very key-stone of nature. Abrogate this law but for one instant, and the tie which holds together that stupendous fabric dissolves, and all its parts vanish into nothingness. How powerful, then, must be the influence of this all-pervading Triune Law, since it forms the cement which holds all nature together! If the universal operation of this indispensable law is found to be of such vast importance in the limited sphere of material nature, what will be our astonishment when we behold this TRIUNE PRINCIPLE freed from the trammels of SENSE, and carried by PRACTICAL REASON into the infinite region of Eternity, where its