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of h-pe running through revelation, yet it so falls on men of diverse characters, 

 that we do not all of us see it alike. We have in the New Testament itself 

 three or four most striking instances of this. There can be no doubt that 

 the Christianity which is taught by St. Paul, St. James, St. John, and St. 

 Peter, possesses the same spirit which runs through their teaching ; never- 

 theless, it would be vain to deny that there is a great variety contained in 

 that unity. It is impossible to avoid seeing that some of these writers seem 

 to view Christianity from a somewhat difiFerent point of view. This paper 

 brings before us the many-sidedness of creation and revelation, and the 

 folly of taking very narrow views of divine revelation— of supposing that 

 our o^vn limited ideas afford the only adequate mode of considering revelation. 

 As Dr. Currey has well and ably pointed out, in respect to the general 

 varieties of mankind, we may see that Christianity, speaking from a historical 

 point of view, is applied in many forms, and thus is suited to every variety 

 of the human mind. Admitting that the human mind appears in an im- 

 mense variety of aspects, and starts with different modes of conception, it 

 seems plain that Christianity has been modified — and in saying this I desire 

 to include the whole Bible — so as to adapt it to all the various phases of the 

 human mind. Let us take, for example, Germanic Christianity, and by this I 

 mean that type of Christianity which the great German wi'iters have accepted ; 

 and we see one grand type of Christianity. Another type of Christianity is that 

 which has been accepted by the Greek writers, and it is of a very different kind 

 from that I have just mentioned. There is another type of Christianity which 

 has been accepted by the Celtic writers, and this is very different from either 

 of the other two. I do not know whether I might not greatly enlarge upon 

 this topic ; but at any rate, what I have said will serve to draw attention to 

 this great fact, that as creation is many-sided, and may be viewed in 

 so many different aspects, and under so many different characters, so, in 

 the same way, Christianity and revelation are also many-sided, and as wide 

 as man himself. Therefore, it seems to me that it has been a great mistake 

 to look upon this subject from too limited a point of view. "We have been 

 too apt to set up our own creed as the only right view of things, and to 

 put down everybody else's creed as wrong ; and in doing this, I think we have 

 been guilty of overlooking the wide foundation of natural and revealed 

 religion. There are one or two passages in the paper to which I will draw 

 attention as containing points on which I most entirely agree with the 

 author. In § 32 he says, " The statements of the Bible are foimded on 

 the fact that God is the Almighty Sovereign of His creatures ; that He can 

 alone create, and He alone destroy." This is a great and profound truth, and 

 one which we are often tempted to ignore. We are, I think, too often in the 

 habit of laying it down that many of the peculiar structures of the animal 

 creation have resulted, not from the act of the Divine Being, but from the faU 

 of man. It seems to me that this is a very dangerous assumption. I fully 

 admit that there are certain forms of animal life, the peculiarities of which 

 one cannot but wonder at exceedingly, and which, looking at them in the 



