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REV. E. L. LAXGSTOX. M.A., OX 



Mr. "U'. E. Leslie said: — For many years students of prophecy 

 have been divided between the Historicist and the Futurist schools, 

 while the unbeliever cared for none of these things. Now all is 

 changed. The unbeliever is within the Church, and he is taking 

 a keen interest in apokalyptics. He points out quite correctly that 

 the canonical writings are part of a larger apokalyptic literature 

 but he refuses to admit that they are anything more. This 

 Modernist school is now dominant in our seats of learning. 



It is to be regretted, therefore, that Mr. Langston has ex- 

 pounded one of the rival Evangelical views instead of meeting the 

 Modernist attack by pointing out that Biblical apokalyptics form 

 a coherent whole as opposed to the incoherent uncanonical specula- 

 tions. A critical work like Orr's Problem of the Old Testament 

 is urgently needed in this department. 



When names are predicted in Scripture, are they not given 

 explicitly as in the case of Chorus, or symbolically as in the case 

 of the number of the Beast ? Are not the philological speculations 

 on page 170 unwise ? 



There appears to be a curious oversight on page 172. The 

 " seven times " of Leviticus means " sevenfold," not seven pro- 

 phetic " times.'' The Hebrew Avord for " times " (Dan. 7) is not 

 used here. The chronological calculations built upon this mis- 

 apprehension are therefore baseless. 



The Chairman, Lieut. -Col. F. A. Molony, thanked Mr. Langston 

 for putting forward a definite theory of prophecy, and said: — I 

 agree in thinking that the fourth great empire predicted in Dan. 

 vii. refers to Rome, and not to Greece. (See the appendix to 

 Godet's biblical studies.) 



Mr. Langston says our King claims to rule by Divine right." 

 His Majesty is so modest about expressing his views that personally 

 I never knew that he made this claim, though I was in his service. 



Mr. Langston says " it may be that all the conferences held 

 in connection with the League of Nations are under the powers 

 of darkness." I am glad he put in that " may be," for I belong 

 to a branch of the League, and believe that it tries to work 

 under the Power of Light, even God Himself. 



The part of Mr. Langston's paper which 1 regret, is his 

 attempt to fix a definite date, though tentatively, for the end of 

 this dispensation and the second coming of Chribt. He reminds 

 us of the seven times predicted in Leviticus, and argues that 

 these were 360 year-days each. Then he puts the starting time 

 at the , destruction of the Temple in B.C. 587, which brings us to 



A. D. 1933. Now both the prophecy of Moses, and the events of 



B. C. 587, were known to Jesus Christ, and yet he said, speaking 



