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REV. JOHN URQUHART, ON 



has largely answered m}^ purpose in writing it. The study of 

 Scripture prophecy has been strangely neglected in recent times, with 

 deplorable results. 



May I be permitted to say that I dissent very definitely from the 

 view of the nature of Scripture prophecy expressed by the 

 respected Chairman, Chancellor P. Vernon Smith. I think it 

 was well defined by the old divine whom he quotes as " history 

 written beforehand." Samuel's prediction to Saul (i Samuel x, 

 2-6) was of exactly that order, and its exact literal fulfilment 

 impressed Saul accordingly. As to its having had " primarily a 

 bearing upon the time or place of its delivery," although the 

 Chairman is here in accord with a modern principle of prophetic 

 (mis)interpretation, I am quite at a loss -to understand the statement. 

 AVhen Daniel pictured the final partition of the Roman Empire into 

 ten kingdoms, what bearing had that prediction " on the time and 

 place of its delivery " ? The belief that the Messianic Psalms, for 

 example, had a primary fulfilment in David is most distinctly 

 repudiated by Holy Scripture. In Acts ii, 29, the first part of the 

 proof, that a certain prediction referred to our Lord, is that it had 

 no fulfilment whatever in David. Is not the Chairman under a 

 misapprehension when he alleges that Paul (Acts xiii, 47) " adopted " 

 " as applicable to himself " a prophecy " chiefly fulfilled in Christ " 

 Is it not the evident meaning of the Apostle, not that they (Paul 

 and Barnabas) were the light of the Gentiles, but that, Christ having 

 been appointed the light of the Gentiles, they (His servants) must 

 carry the Gospel to them 1 In view of the enormous importance of 

 testing current modes of interpretation, the Chancellor, I know, 

 will excuse my traversing another statement of his. " The prophecy 

 from Isaiah xlix, 6," he said, was " spoken originally of Israel or a 

 portion of Israel." The words are these : " And he said ' It is a light 

 thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of 

 Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel, I will also give thee 

 for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the 

 ends of the earth.' " Against these words this Jewish rationalistic 

 device is dashed to pieces. AYas Israel or any portion of it ever 

 described as God's " salvation " 1 Were even the Apostles ever so 

 addressed 1 The words are applied to One who, seeing that His 

 mission is to " raise up " the Jew, and " to restore " in the latter day 

 that part of Israel "preserved" throughout "the day of Jacob's 



