And, confronting the hypothesis of immortality, he insists that a future life must embrace retribution.

"As a man sows, so shall he also reap." Immortality is not to be regarded as a sentimental compensation for our terrestrial experience, but as the essential continuity of our spiritual evolution.

"For many, no doubt, it will mean an experience of probation, and for all one of retribution." He sees clearly and gratefully that "the moral range of the work of Christ in the human soul, His gifts of grace, forgiveness, and power, lift men at once on to the plane of the spiritual and fill their conception of life with a new and richer content." But he does not shut his eyes to the fact of the moral law, and with all the force of his character and all the strength of his intellect he accepts "the great principle that as a man sows, so shall he also reap." In this way Dr.Selbie prepares his students, not only to meet the intellectual difficulties of the future, but to stand fast in the ancient faith of their forefathers that the moral law is a fact of the universe.

He helps them to be fighters as well as teachers.

They are to fight the complacency of men, the false optimism of the world, the delusive tolerance of materialism.