REV. PREBENDARY WACE, D.D., ON ETHICS AND RELIGION. 14] 
cause, which will express the great and _ ever-perplexing 
phenomenon of humanity. The more we study it the more we 
are convinced that the conception of human nature is incompre- 
hensible without a first cause, and therefore it is only scientific 
to believe that ethics are unthinkable without a first cause too. 
The Rev. F. A. Watxer, D.D.—My remarks in reference to 
Dr. Wace’s admirable paper will only be confined, so to speak, 
to a side issue. 
On page 15 Prebendary Wace has made a quotation from 
the Book of Job: ‘‘ Where shall wisdom be found and where 
is the place of understanding?” He goes on to say ‘‘and when 
his eye has ranged nature in vain for an answer, he falls back 
upon the old solution, ‘God understandeth the way thereof, and 
He knoweth the place thereof; for He looketh to the ends of the 
earth and seeth under the whole heaven.’ ” 
I would, with due deference, supply one word, ‘‘ hidden”; “and 
when his eye has ranged [hidden] nature in vain for an answer” 
—otherwise the common interpretation of that would be looking 
round at the tall trees, especially the ocean and crag. That, 
evidently, is not what Job had in mind; because in the same- 
28th chapter the keynote is hidden nature and not external 
nature. “There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which 
the vulture’s eye hath not seen. The lion’s whelps have not 
trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.” It seems, therefore, 
that Job is referring to hidden nature, in which case his obser- 
vations are in correspondence with his reference to wisdom.. 
‘“‘Tt cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious 
onyx, or the sapphire.” 
The Rev. Jonn Tuckwetn.—l think we all concur in thanking 
Dr. Wace for the admirable paper we have listened to and for 
his courage to put into print such an emphatic declaration that 
morality can only be efficiently enforced on the ground of religion, 
and indeed the Christian religion. But, at the same time, J 
think we ought to be quite clear about it and not allow ourselves 
to think that Christianity has invented the moral law, or given 
the moral law for the first time. That would be to lose sight 
of a great and important truth in connection with our own 
being and our relationship to our Creator. If the Divine 
Creator makes any being, apparently by that act He establishes 
some relation between that being and Himself. There are 
