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an attractive view to the world, but it is not that of our Lord, 

 who whenever He spoke of evil treated it as a living and acting 

 force against which the powers of Heaven were arrayed, a battle 

 that demanded the enlistment of our whole will and force if we 

 would be among those " who overcome." I am sure our Lecturer 

 would not deny this, and I should be glad to know whether his 

 " all things " includes no moral ideas, but those intellectual only. 

 Pantheism creates an atmosphere in which Christianity cannot 

 breathe or live at all. 



Rev. Chancellor Lias writes (abbreviated) : Plato's teaching 

 about God is a great deal based on Oriental mysticism and its strange 

 vagaries and follies : nevertheless he approaches more nearly tO' 

 Christianity than any other philosopher. 



I will ask you to note that Moses, who must be regarded as 

 the forerunner of the greatest and most successful Teacher the 

 world has ever seen, and who is still widely recognised as having 

 been sent by God as such a forerunner, commences his work with 

 the direct contradiction of the principle affirmed by all the heathen 

 philosophers, Plato included, that man's sin was the result of the 

 impurity of matter. Moses insists on the fact that man, so far 

 from being endowed by his Creator with an impure body, was- 

 created by God, and as such was pronounced by Him ' very good.'' 

 Neither does Moses describe him as falling from his original 

 innocence by any innate impurity of his material body, but from 

 a disbelief, insinuated by a tempter from without, that God had 

 (not) given the commands, which He had given. 



Chancellor Lias adds : German metaphysicians have persuaded 

 some of us to believe in a God of our own manufacture, not a God 

 revealed by Himself alone, through intermediate phases of His 

 Being, commonly called Persons — German metaphysicians tell us 

 to think of God as " The Infinite," " The Absolute," " The Uncon- 

 ditioned." The Bible tells us to believe in a Living God, revealed 

 by a Revealer, and communicated to the human spirit by the Divine 

 Breath — German metaphysicians have bidden us to conceive of 

 God as the moral order of the universe and nothing more. 



Dr. Bridges thanked the Lecturer for his highly philosophical 

 paper, and recalled with pleasure his student days with Professor 

 Langhorne Orchard. It was generally agreed that all the wisdom 



