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say I am in shackles by the fact that a very influential section of 

 the clergy of the Church of England, including pei'sons in high 

 places, do not allow me to talk on the Pentateuch as history at all, 

 and therefore I have to get it where I can find it. Then as to the 

 expression, " Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? " that 

 seems to me to prove the contrary of what he contended for, for it 

 seems to me that Abraham was in great difficulty and was not 

 quite sure that " the Judge of all the earth " would do right.* 



With regard to Shaddai and God as Breath, Canon Girdlestonc 

 and I have simply given an opinion, and therefore that does not 

 come much into argument. When he says that Flesh, in the Old 

 Testament, represents Matter, 1 am not with him there, and I do 

 not think he has taken a very accurate view of Old Testament 

 teaching on that point. I do Bot think he apprehended what I 

 meant by evolution. I meant what Dr. Gladstone spoke of, viz., 

 development. He says himself that he believes in evolution up to 

 a cei'tain point. So do I, and I do not think I go beyond that. 



As to the doctrine of Divine immanence, if I read my Greek 

 Testament aright, immanence is merely a Latin form of abiding 

 which we read of in the Gospel and Epistles of St. John ; but T 

 can express myself more fully on that when I reply in writing to 

 the paper. 



J. H. Gladstone, Esq., D.Sc, F.R.S.- — At this late hour it would 

 not be desirable to detain you with many words. I may, however, 

 be permitted to express the great pleasure I have had in listening 

 to a paper with which I think all, whether theologians or thought- 

 ful scientific men, will substantially agree. 



An interesting point is the comparison between the historical 

 development of natural science on the one side, and the historical 

 development of the knowledge of God as made known to us in the 

 Holy Scriptures on the other. It appears to me that there is a 

 very striking parallelism between the two. We have just been 

 shown that nature affords conclusive evidence of one supreme 

 mind, and the unity of God is of course affirmed in the Bible ; in 

 both instances the conviction of this unity has become more and 

 more evident as knowledge has increased. 



* The author here seems to take a mistaken view of Abraham's meaning. 

 The interrogatory form of the expression is the strongest evidence that 

 the Patriarch was certain that God would do right. — Ed. 



