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single qualifying phrase or word is used in the Review article, no refer- 
ence is made to the “Standard sense.’ Have the Professor's eyes been 
opened to see the inconsistency of his position in 1884? Has he now 
fled for refuge to the Bible—without saying in which sense? A very 
convenient refuge. Or, has he abandoned, after four years more of light, 
the “Standard sense,’ and deliberately chosen the ‘absolute and infalli- 
ble sense’ of the Bible, as that which contradicts the “theory” of Dr. 
Woodrow—“the professed Christian Evolutionist”? If this is not his 
position, then, by all means, let him amend his universal proposition— 
the “Scriptures” and evolution “are mutually contradictory,” so as to 
read: Wot the Confession of Faith and evolution are “mutually con- 
tradictory,” for this proposition we have seen is false (Pamp/let, pp. 
3-5), but so amend it as to read: ‘The statements of representative 
theologians and the orthodox belief of G'od’s people in the Presbyterian 
Church,” and the “theory of the professed Christian evolutionist,’ are 
“mutually contradictory.” This proposition, since it will hurt no one 
but (1) “the representative theologians, and (2) the orthodox (?) of 
God’s people in the Presbyterian Church,” will possibly not be disputed 
by me, and so we shall ‘have peace.’ For—1. I do not belong to the 
“representative theologians in the Presbyterian Church ;” 2. I do not 
belong to the “orthodox” (7. e., when interrogatively put) of God’s 
people in the Presbyterian Church.” 
But still, granting that the Doctor amends his proposition, yet for 
practical purposes, 7. ¢., by way of relief to tender consciences, it will be 
necessary for the Professor to furnish criteria, by which to decide such 
questions, é. g., as these: 
J. Which is “the” Presbyterian Church? Or, at least, to which one 
of the ‘‘Presbyterian” Churches do you refer ? 
2. Who are the representative theologians ? 
3. To which of their ‘statements’ do you appeal ? 
4, Who are “‘God’s” people in the Presbyterian Church ? 
5. Amongst God’s “people” in the Presbyterian Church, who are the 
“orthodox” ? 
6. To what “statements” of (1) God's (2) people (3) who are ortho- 
dox, (4) in the Presbyterian Church, do you refer? 
7..Where have you found (1) “statements,” (2) on Dr. Woodrow’s 
theory, (3) by God’s (4) people (5) who are orthodox (6) in the Pres- 
byterian Church, (7) which “statements” contradict Dr. Woodrow’s 
theory? Requiescat in pace. 
Let us now turn our attention to another remarkable exhibition of the 
Doctor’s logic. 
