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Natural Religion and mere reason have not weapons strong enough 
for the entire defeat of Materialism. We need Revelation.—In short, 
we must gather our forces more and more within the domain of 
History. The ‘inward testimony” of man—a point emphatically brought 
out in Mr. Blencowe’s paper—existing as far back as we can trace his 
history, to the existence of a Creator and Upholder of all things, is, in fact, 
the result of that Creator’s revelation of Himself. The ancient literature of 
the nations, and the records that are being disentombed from the long- 
forgotten mounds of Eastern cities, are to furnish, especially in their 
confirmation of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, the best weapons 
against Modern Scepticism. ‘To the man, who is convinced that God has 
spoken, materialism becomes necessarily an empty and useless dream. And, 
as regards the prominent topic of this paper, to the man, who is convinced 
of an Infinite and Eternal Intelligence, the Author of all being, the doctrine 
of human responsibility becomes an intense reality, the pole-star of human 
moral life: while to the Materialist it is but one result of what have been 
called “ social forces,” and must be as changeable and evanescent as “ social 
forces” themselves have ever been. 
