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new symposium be called on these walks of Gottin- 

 gen, under the lime-trees. 



Of course we must invite to the assembly the 

 ten men prominent in the English symposium : Mr. 

 R. H. Hutton, Professor Huxley, Lord Blachford, 

 the Hon. Roden Noel, Lord Selborne, Canon Barry, 

 Mr. W. R. Greg, the Rev. Baldwin Brown, Dr. W. 

 G. Ward, and Mr. Frederick Harrison. 



Let us invite out of the theological faculties of 

 benighted Germany, Professor Schoberlein from Got- 

 tingen University, an accomplished and tested teacher 

 of systematic theology. He has had a high position 

 in the faculty at Gottingen for almost a quarter of a 

 century, and probably, therefore, must teach mediae- 

 val views. From just beyond this wall of Gottingen, 

 on which the nightingales sing, invite out of the 

 brown mansion yonder, among the orchards, Her- 

 mann Lotze. Let us take also, from the same city 

 and university, the renowned defender of the doctrine 

 of the atonement, Reitschl, whose recent book on 

 the Vicarious Sacrifice any one must study who 

 wishes to be abreast of modern thought on that 

 theme. Then from Halle let us invite Julius Miiller 

 and Kostlin and Ulrici. The first of these three is 

 often called the ablest of living theologians; and 

 the last, as you know, is the editor of the " Zeit- 

 schrift fur Philosophic," the foremost philosophical 

 magazine in the world. Let us take from Leip- 

 sic Kahilis and Luthardt, and especially Delitzsch, 

 who has written a work on Biblical Psychology, a 

 topic running close to the theme of the English 



