And election is a fact, although they express it oddly--and so is reprobation--and so is what they say of free will, and so is conversion.

It is true that we bring natures into the world which are moulded by circumstances and by their own tendencies, as clay in the hands of the potter.

Look round you and see that some are made for honour and some for dishonour.

So far I agree with the Evangelicals still, and I agree too with them that if what they call faith--that is, a distinct conviction of sin, a resolution to say to oneself "Sammy, my boy, this won't do,"* a perception and love for what is right and good, and a loathing of the old self--can be put into one, and by the grace of God we see that it can be and is--the whole nature is changed, is what we call regenerated.

This is certain--and it is to me certain also that the world and we who live in it, with all these mysterious conditions of our being, are no creation of accident or blind law.