128 PROFESSOR H. LANGHORNE ORCHARD, M.A., B.SC, ON 



and understand together " (Isaiah xli, 20). We have a supreme 

 reason for loving GOD in the fact that HE first loved us ; HIS 

 LOVE is the attraction to our love and our " reasonable service." 

 5 GOD has spoken, and out of Zion, the perfection of Beauty. 

 oSGOD has shined. HE has manifested HIMSELF to men in 

 I ^ Jesus Christ our Redeemer and Lord, \\Tiose Name is The Word 

 g ^ of GOD, mo is the Forth-shining of HIS glory (Hebrews i, 3), 

 § 2 and is also the Mercy-seat (Romans iii, 25), where GOD meets 

 ^ B. with man for communion (Exodus xxv, 22). It is at the Mercy- 

 ^ S seat especially that attraction between HIS Love and ours grows 

 ^f. stronger as, under The Holy Spirit's teaching, communion 

 increases communion, as increasingly we come to know that 

 r ^ triad — the eternal harmony of three notes of a common chord — 

 the breadth, and length, and depth and height, of the Love of 

 Christ. There, in the fulfilHng of His prayer to The Father, 

 for all beUevers on Him, that they all may be One even as The 

 ^ Father and The Son are One, I in them and THOU in Me, 

 o that they may be made perfect in One," we recognise the perfect 

 I 5^ ideal of The One in The Many, and The Many in The One, that 

 ^ ^ GOD may be All in All. Blessed be the God and Father of our 

 ^ Lord Jesus Christ ! 



Discussion. 



The Chairman (Col. Mackjnlay) : There is much of value in 

 this careful paper on a difficult subject. One naturally turns to 

 find what the Professor has to say about the meeting of the Christian 

 philosopher St. Paul with the heathen philosophers at Athens 

 as recorded in Acts xvii. It looks as if our author, on p. 123, referred 

 to this incident as showing the Apostle's approval of heathen 

 philosophy. Of course he did approve of it to a certain extent. 

 But has not the Professor somewhat missed the point in the scriptural 

 record ? This seems to be that St. Paul agreed with his hearers, 

 as far as he could, in order to attract their attention ; but he only 

 did so in order to tell them of their ignorance, thus showing that 

 their philosophy had failed to be of any real use. 



That being the case, the Apostle told them that God had revealed 

 the way, and had attested His Divine Message by raising up the 

 Son of God from the dead. But again heathen philosophy failed • 

 it did not even prompt its votaries to investigate the credibihty 

 of the evidence of the Grand Miracle of the Resurrection, and 

 consequently no progress was made. 



