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REV. CANON J. T. PARFIT, M.A., ON 



Bangalore being taken by a friend to a meeting of reformed Moslems, 

 with whom it was hoped to join hands. As long as the conversation 

 was limited to expatiating on the greatness and goodness of the one 

 God, all went well, but as soon as a Christian present tried to show 

 that it was not unreasonable that a Holy God might have righteous 

 claims against the sinner, which could only be met by the Divine 

 Atonement of Christ, a chill fell over the meeting." 



Professor Langhorne Orchard writes : — " The Paper is very 

 interesting ; particularly so are the historical, political, and connected 

 religious notes. Paragraph 5, page 179, contains the statement that 

 the Genesis record ' cannot conceivably be an absolutely correct 

 account of Creation.' Yet, as this record is a Revelation from 

 God, it can have no admixture of error. Its truthfulness, avouched 

 by science, is not open to reasonable doubt. Is the word ' correct ' 

 really a printer's error, and ought we to read, ' absolutely complete ' ? 

 We agree with the author of the Paper that the Biblical Creation- 

 narrative is far superior to the Babylonian or any other account, 

 as ' an embodiment of ethical and religious truth,' and its mono- 

 theistic and other features bear testimony to its earlier date." 



Author's Reply. 



To Dr. Schofield :— The town of Hillah, with about 14,000 

 inhabitants, is situated on the banks of the Euphrates on the site 

 of Ancient Babylon. It is now becoming a commercial centre of 

 increasing importance. The plans of a great scheme of canals 

 and waterways to run from the mouth of the Orontes to the Persian 

 Gulf, published in the Engineering Supplement to The Times, 

 provide for a huge dockyard at Babylon. 



The ofl&cial correspondence with the United States shows that 

 arrangements have already been made to bring oil pipes through 

 the French sphere to the Mediterranean, which undoubtedly means 

 that the most important ports for Mesopotamia will eventually 

 be on the Syria and Palestine littoral. 



To Mr. Hoste : — 1. I only differ with Mr. Hoste apparently in 

 the meaning of the expression " Jewish State." There are many 

 Hebrew Christians in Palestine as well as many other Christians 

 and Moslems. If, even when the Jews are in the majority, they 



