of Jonah, the prophet, when viewed as history, is foolish and inconsistent; but when viewed as an allegory in the light of psychology, it is seen to describe and explain the process whereby the soul of man is made perfect; and thus it is that no prophet has ever given to the people of the world any other sign, than the sign of Jonah, the sign that unerringly attends the fulfillment of the Law. "No sign shall be given, but the sign of the prophet Jonas" (Matt. 12: 39).

The Scriptures contain many precepts,-commands and inhibitions; but these do not constitute the higher Law, the Law of Moses. They are subsidiary to the higher, and are given to lead man to a knowledge of it. "Remember ye the Law of Moses, my servant, with statutes and judgments." The higher Law, the Law of the mind, represents the divine order within the soul of man. Man is governed by precepts from without, before he is governed by the Spirit and its Law from within. As long as man lives unmindful of the Law of his own nature, it is necessary to confront him with commands and inhibitions. Reason itself is spiritual; its office is to govern; and it should act in perfect accord with conscience, the Spirit of God within the soul. "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle lest they come near unto thee" (Ps. 32: 8, 9). They that are governed of precepts are as the horse and the mule that are held in with bit and bridle.

In the Scriptures attributed to Paul, it is written that "the Law is holy, that the Law is spiritual; nay, I had not known sin, but by the Law" (Rom. 7:7, 12, 14). It is the Law that reveals sin; the Law represents

the divine order; and thus it is holy. "Order is Truth." Evil represents disorder, confusion, deformity. "The Law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple" (Ps. 19:7). The soul itself must in some measure be attuned to the divine order before man is capable of comprehending the nature of sin. Therefore, it is the Law that discovers sin; and thus it is spiritual. All men are under the Law; for all human souls are made after the same divine pattern. Man must conform to the divine order, or suffer the consequences which attend its violation. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6: 7).

"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the Law, but under grace" (Rom. 6: 14). This we would construe as follows: Ye are not under precepts, ye are not governed by commands and inhibitions, ye are not governed from without, but from within; ye are faithful to reason; ye are self-governing. This seems a fair interpretation, since law, or laws, are often used as being synonymous with precepts. Sin does not have dominion over them who live and act in obedience to reason and conscience, the divine within the soul of man. "The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners" (1 Tim. 1:9). Does any one believe that the word law as here used has reference to an inner law? Is it not apparent that it refers to commands and inhibitions imposed on evil doers from without? Precepts are not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient. The righteous man is selfgoverning; in a true sense, he is immune from the operation of commands and inhibitions which are

made for the guidance and restraint of the lawless and ungodly.

It would seem that, in every instance where Paul is represented as using the word law in an unqualified way, he used the word in the sense of precepts. The thought that Paul intended to convey and to emphasize when he uses the word law unqualifiedly is, that man should not be governed from without by precepts, that he should not be "held in with bit and bridle," as the horse or mule; but that he should be governed by reason and conscience. This interpretation makes Paul's teachings consistent with all other Scripture. When Paul uses the word Law in another sense than the unqualified, he does not leave his meaning in uncertainty, as the following passage proves: "For I delight in the Law of God after the inward man" (Rom. 7:22). This we would interpret: I delight in God's Law of the Mind and Soul. I delight in that Divine Law, that inner Law, that Law of the Mind which points the way of human perfection. The Law of God and the Law of Moses are One. Man may escape guidance by precepts, and become self-governing, but no philosophic mind can believe that man will ever escape from the operation of the Law of his own nature. It is the duty of man to live in obedience to the higher Law. For if we are faithful, if we faint not, "though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4: 16). In the third chapter of Galatians, Paul speaks of the "works of the Law," and says: "The Law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith." This is the precise office of the precepts. Their office is to bring man to a realization of individual self-government, and to a faith in God.

Jesus Christ, like Moses and all the great of Israel, represents the fulfillment of the Law, human and divine. Jesus, like Moses, is the Law and the Testimony. The lives of those who have fulfilled the Law demonstrate the way of salvation. "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me" (John 14:6). No man cometh to a knowledge of God, but by the fulfillment of the Law. Paul believed that Jesus represented the fulfillment of the Law; consequently the following and like expressions: "The Law [precepts] was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ," to a knowledge of the higher Law, and its fulfillment, "that we might be justified by faith." All who fulfill the divine Law, the Law of the Soul are justified by faith. "The Law is not of faith: but the man that doeth them shall live in them" (Gal. 3: 12). The precepts are not of faith; but the higher Law evidently is; for it is spiritual and holy.

Paul calls the Galatians (4:19) "my little children" and also tells how he is in travail, that he must labor hard and painfully, "until Christ be formed in them.' The Galatians are denominated "little children" because they are governed of precepts, and not of the Spirit, because they are governed from without and not from within. In a word, they make the labors of Paul hard and painful to bear because they have to be governed like little children by commands and inhibitions, and because they are slow to develop an individual capacity for self-government; and thus we ought to have some conception of what it is to have "Christ formed in us," what it is that attunes the soul to the higher Law. The salvation of man involves a psychological and orderly process as we are told again and again both in the Old and New Testament Scriptures.

But if we are faithful to the inner Law, and faint not, "though the outer man perish, yet the inner man is renewed day by day." This process of orderly growth within the soul of man described by Paul recalls the words of Charles Darwin who, though a secularist, rendered the cause of true religion an invaluable service. Evolution, said Darwin, proceeds by "numerous, successive, and slight modifications." To quote again the words of Paul, the perfection of the soul of man proceeds "from character to character." Channing in his famous discourse on "Fenelon," said: "No man, it is believed, understands the wild and irregular motions of the mind, like him in whom a principle of divine order has begun to establish peace. No man knows the horror of thick darkness which gathers over the slaves of vehement passion, like him who is rising into the light and liberty of virtue."

Paul feared lest the Corinthians "should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Cor. 11:3). The simplicity of Christ is represented in a life governed by reason and by conscience; the reverse of this is a life governed by malice, greed, envy, lust, hypocrisy, revenge, conceit, superstition, and tyranny; these are a few of the obsessing devils that prevent countless millions from abiding in the simplicity of Christ. How simple and scientific the Scriptures become when we rise above the passing and historic, and view them in the light of psychology. Science is orderly knowledge; and all science, like religion, tends to unity and simplicity.

Jesus Christ, like Moses and all the great, taught a life. "I am the way, the truth, and the Life." The fulfillment of the Law represents the love and coöperation of the individual life with the Universal Life. "I