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nature. Here is one reason why I believe that this, rather 
than some sort of Unitarianism, is the religion of the future. 
The half-and-half systems may suit the simple administration 
of past ages ; but we are learning from the infinite complexity 
of nature and society something of the infinite complexity of 
the divine expressed alike in the universe and by the doctrine 
of the Trinity. Shortly to say, Unitarianism in all its forms 
belongs to an order of thought which has ceased to satisfy either 
reason or conscience, and both the scientific and the social 
development make it everyday more visibly untenable. Ideals 
once transcended are for ever false; and if the deistic and 
agnostic mists are once more gathering round us, they will 
surely vanish in the brighter light which the revelation through 
society throws on things divine. 
DISCUSSION. 
Canon GIRDLESTONE thanked Professor Gwatkin, in the name of 
all present, for his thoughtful paper. He added that many of our 
theological difficulties arise from changes in the sense which we 
attach to words, e.g., Person. He emphasised the distinction between 
Unitarianism which leads to the “ hard impassive God” of Islam, 
and Biblical monotheism which involves eternal relationship 
answering to the words Fatherhood and Sonship, within the compass 
of the Godhead. The new theology was either Gnostic, on which 
Mansel’s lectures on early heresies should be consulted, or Agnostic, 
which St. Paul touched in a sentence when he said “whom ye 
ignorantly worship, Him I declare unto you.” Professor Drummond, 
who was brought up at the feet of Dr. Martineau, has done us good 
service by his study of St. John’s Gospel, which he determines both 
on external and internal grounds to be the work of the disciple 
whom Jesus loved. 
The DEAN OF CANTERBURY expressed his gratitude to Professor 
Gwatkin for his excellent paper. 
Mr. Cory thought that there was a saying of St. Augustine 
which would always be found helpful towards the realisation of this 
doctrine, “ There have always been a lover and a loved.” 
Professor GWATKIN.—There was still left the difficulty of the 
Third Person, yet he thought that he could see a way. 
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