7G EEV. CHANCELLOR LIAS, M.A., ON 



for accepting this history, where mention is made of " sin," 

 " wickedness," the " evil imaginations of men's hearts," the " very 

 grievous sin " of Sodom, and of the Divine displeasure against sin. 

 Abraham is sure that the Lord will not slay the righteous witli the 

 wicked, or that the righteous should be as the wicked " that be far 

 from Thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" 

 Abraham " commands his children and his household after him to 

 keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment." 



Regarding the name Jehovah, the context in the j^assage quoted 

 suggests that the name was used to teach the people that God, 

 who was come to deliver them, was the God of their fathers who 

 had promised deliverance (Exod. iii, 15, 16, 17), and thus their 

 faith was linked on to the faith of their fathers. 



It docs not appear that the Decalogue was given as a higher 

 standard of duty than had been known to men before, but rather 

 that it was a call to the people to return to the faith and practice 

 of their fathers. The Mosaic institutions would, however, serve 

 to deepen a sense of sin in men's minds, and so would, prepare 

 them for the revelation that was to follow, as the paper has 

 shown. 



Professor J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S. — As a lover of science from 

 my youth up, I am rejoiced to find that it has at last been 

 recognized as a factor in the evolution of theology, and conse- 

 quently as possessing a religious character. This, it seems to me, 

 should give it a place in the curriculum of students of theology, 

 and so I regard this paper as being in support of what I have 

 long advocated, the making of elementary science obligatory for 

 the pass degree at Oxford and Cambridge, both of which univer- 

 sities are already splendidly equipped for its teaching. 



The Rev. G. F. Whidborne, F.G.S. — In one other way, at least, 

 the idea of God has been modified by scientific discovery. Every 

 year now with its crowding discoveries is revealing new vistas of 

 originative power. The fact of God must be either acknowledged 

 or denied ; acknowledge it, and every fresh natural law recognized, 

 and every new scientific truth discerned, magnifies the known 

 meaning of that fact, and intensifies the presumption of the utter 

 immeasurability of that part of it which remains beyond our 

 knowledge. And this process is not completed ; it is still going 

 on. Scientific discovery is impei'fect ; it has not yet reached its 

 goal. That is to say, future generations will gain yet further 



