152 THE REV. PROFESSOR H. M. GWATKIN, M.A., ON 
The Rev. H. J. R. MAarston.—To venture to say anything on 
this subject is to launch out into deep waters. Professor Gwatkin 
has to-day said almost the last word on a subject that he has made 
his own. I hope that we may hear the Professor again in the 
Victoria Institute. 
Perhaps, however, it is not self-evident that every phase of 
human society in its development must reflect an aspect of the 
Godhead. Each genuine phase has adumbrated some aspect of the 
Biblical God, not the naturalistic God. 
There is then something to say for the Sovereignty of God once 
unchallenged, now so much impoverished and caricatured. The 
idea of Sovereignty is more needed than ever. As a life-long 
Liberal he hoped that there may be some such thing as a Divine 
Democracy. 
Of the Sovereignty of God, Augustine and Calvin have caught 
glimpses, but St. John had a real vision. 
It is my hope that all those who have ideals of Society, whether 
democratic or other, may gradually find all worthy speculations 
and ideals realised and transcended. 
REMARKS BY LIEUT.-COLONEL ALVES. 
Whilst there appear to be certain differences between ancient 
Arianism and the forms of modern Unitarianism, I think that, 
broadly speaking, both practically deny the unique Divinity of the 
Lord Jesus Christ ; Gnosticism, on the other hand, denying His real 
humanity. Each of these opposing heresies would render useless 
His work on our behalf. 
The reader of the paper has hinted that God can have no 
favourites ; but is this correct? Abraham was God’s friend ; it is 
true that he was a man of great faith ; but God must have foreseen 
that his descendants through Jacob would manifest what a writer on 
Scripture has called ‘a genius for perversity.” Yet that nation— 
as a nation—was marked out for special favour; and, although at 
present in disgrace, is being preserved in order to be a blessing to 
the whole world, and also its head nation temporally. This is 
‘“‘Calvinism,” so called, applied nationally. 
As regards individuals, we cannot get rid of this (“ Calvinistic ”) 
doctrine without destroying the Bible. To say nothing of others, 
Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul, Peter and John held those doctrines 
