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Lord declared He came to fulfil, tlie living faith in Himself 

 which He requires from us can neither be attained nor main- 

 tained, for the exceeding need of a sinner must be seen ere the 

 Saviour can be welcomed. The natural man cannot see the 

 Kingdom of God. All the great revivals have had their founda- 

 tion on the truth of God's Word in both Old Testament and 

 New. 



" Further Criticism " will take her place as a handmaid in 

 the service of the Spirit of Truth, which the world cannot receive, 

 and in the ministry of the Word of which our LoitI Jesus Christ 

 said, in His great intercessory prayer, " Thy word is truth." 



Havino- mentioned the name of the late Professor Eobertson 

 Smith, I cannot refrain from mentioning one whom I count 

 quite as worthy of the regard of the Church and who was the 

 first to recognize the importance of the work on account of 

 which I have the honour to be addressing this distinguished 

 audience, I mean Professor George G. Cameron, D.D., who 

 succeeded Professor Eobertson Smith in the Hebrew Chair of 

 the Free Church College, Aberdeen, and who, writing to me of 

 my work, said : — 



" Most thoroughly do I agree with you that criticism should 

 be true to history. What has prevented me from the first and 

 to this hour from accepting the advanced views is the fact that 

 they leave to us practically no reliable history." 



Here is a man who, during his whole Professorship since 

 1882, while keeping himself informed of all the views that were 

 sweeping others away like a Hood, quietly and tenaciously held 

 on to his faith and to its foundations, who now, instead of 

 finding his views antiquated and consigned to the dust-heap as 

 he lays aside the duties of his chair, finds to his intense satis- 

 faction that his views are in harmony with the results of the 

 most recent investigations of scholarship, while the views which 

 were so ostentatiously brought forward now form but a " castle 

 in the air " ; and it seems to me must soon cease even to be 

 thought of except among antiquarians. 



The " inverted history " of the Higher Criticism is proved 

 by the Samaritan Pentateuch and its connected data to be the 

 greatest mistake in criticism yet made, the " Eainbow Bible " to 

 be but an iridescent cloud. 



Discussion. 



The Chairman, before the paper was read, described it as 

 revolutionary, original and fresh, and at the close remarked that 



