AH LORD GRIMTHORPE 
mankind, and the Judge of mankind, and in that point of view I 
must own that it seems to me, more and more, nothing but a great 
waste of time to discuss questions of morality and responsibility 
apart from the Christian revelation. If the Christian revelation 
be true, all these questions are settled once and for ever; and the 
Christian religion, as Lord Grimthorpe has said, from its position 
and its command over human nature, from all the claims it has upon 
us, must be heard and ought to be heard before we go any further. 
I think, therefore, apart from the general question whether we 
are responsible here or hereafter, the only question worth discussing 
is whether the law laid down in the Gospel is the true law that 
man should follow, and whether our Lord is the Judge by whom 
that law should be enforced. (Applause.) 
Rev. W. J. Apams, D.C.L.—I think it is very important to 
observe that a knowledge and sense of responsibility should lead 
us up to God. If I tell a man he is responsible, the man naturally 
says to me, “ Responsible to what?” I say, ‘To God’s law;” and 
if he says, ‘‘ Where is God’s law?” I reply with St. Paul, “It is 
written in men’s hearts.” Now, Dr. Wace very aptly referred to 
the moral law of the old Egyptian Empire. It is a very remark- 
able fact that in the old Egyptian moral code, in respect to which 
every Egyptian had to clear himself before he could enter the 
Egyptian Heaven, there were forty-two mortal sins, any one of 
which would keep an Egyptian out of heaven, and every one of those 
is contained in the Law of Moses, that is to say, the old Egyptian 
moral code covered the whole Mosaic law. It is a very remarkable 
fact because that was in existence centuries before the time of 
Moses. Therefore there wasa moral law, as St. Paul says, written 
in men’s hearts from the very beginning, and the Christian faith, 
as I think Dr. Wace admitted, though he did not say so in so 
many words, claims not so much to be a new foundation for 
morality, as a sanction by an express Divine Person in an express 
Divine Appearance in the world of the old moral law; but from the 
very beginning the law was written on man’s heart, and St. 
Paul argues therefrom. The Christian faith corroborates that law 
and gives it a Divine sanction and makes it clear. It found the 
moral law in men’s hearts, and the Christian faith brings it to 
light and gives a Divine sanction for that moral law; but the 
moral law has been in the world from the very beginning, and so 
