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on Job ; and during his Scotch sojourn he had devoted 

 much attention to Dr. Temple's Bampton Lecture. So, 

 when once more at home, he took up some of his former 

 occupations. He attended a few meetings, and when 

 questions of difficulty arose, his judgment showed its wonted 

 clearness, and was felt to have lost none of its grave 

 wisdom. On the 7th of November, he met a number of 

 old friends at the house of Mr. George Busk, where the 

 animated talk of a group including his host, Mr. Huxley, 

 Dr. AUman, and himself, made the party peculiarly memo- 

 rable. The next day he dined after morning chapel with 

 one of his sons, and spoke much of the Resurrection, in 

 connection with his forthcoming paper, dwelling with 

 especial force on the testimony of Paul, and expressing 

 a characteristic suspense of judgment among the various 

 theories offered in explanation. The whole topic occupied 

 his mind so fully that it naturally came uppermost when, 

 on the following afternoon, he met Dr. Martineau at the 

 Athenseum. The subjoined record of their talk was after- 

 wards communicated by Dr. Martineau to the Christian 

 Reformer of January, 1886. 



About 4.30 p.m. on Monday, November 9, I met my late 

 friend, Dr. Carpenter, at the Athenaeum, for the first time since 

 his illness in the early summer. Though he bore some slight 

 traces of rheumatism still, he was full of hfe and energy in his 

 conversation ; which, passing quickly from subject to subject, 

 soon settled upon the paper on miracles, which he was about 

 to prepare for the Christian Conference on the following 



Monday. 



He did not propose, he said, to undertake a substantive 

 treatment of the topic as a whole, but to content himself with 

 a criticism of Bishop Temple's argument in his recent volume 

 of Bampton Lectures. In that work, the credibility of miracles 

 was vindicated in the method suggested to Babbage by his 

 calculating-machine, and expounded in the so-called " Ninth 



