96 MAJOR W. McADAM ECCLES, M.S.. F.K.C.S.. R.A.M.C., ON 



the beds were protected from the birds by a high network, which 

 through keeping off many breeding butterflies, moths and beetles, 

 may have halved the tribute usually paid to insects. Without this 

 protection, according to farming traditions, he would have lost |-, or 

 one-half more, or his total produce would have been 694 grains from 

 a single one. On the other hand, if he had systematically used 

 manure, he would have multiplied this at least four times over, 

 and thus have obtained a 2776 fold return for his sowing. 



'Mi. Sidney Collett : If I understand the Scriptures aright, 

 the connection between sin and death, as cause and effect, is one 

 of the great fundamental doctrines of the Word of God, e.g., The 

 wages of sin is death " (Rom. vi, 23) ; " Sin, when it is finished, 

 bringeth forth death "* (James i, 15) ; " As by one man sin entered 

 into the world, and death by sin " (Rom. v, 12). Surely there can 

 be no mistaking such passages as these, whether we have in mind 

 physical or spiritual death. Indeed, the Bible seems to teach most 

 clearly that had there been no sin, there would have been no death. 



The lecturer has really dealt with the immediate causes of death, 

 and has ignored altogether what is far more important, viz., the 

 original cause. "\Miat would be thought of a man who attributed 

 the motion of a train of railway carriages solely to the link that 

 connected it with the engine, claiming that it had nothing whatever 

 to do with the complex machinery of the engine, the power of the 

 steam, the fire that generated the steam, or the intelligent mind 

 of the engine driver, whose hand controlled its entire movements ? 

 Dr. Eccles tells us that the causes of death are three, viz., accidents, 

 wearing out, and deadly parasites. He also speaks of war, care- 

 lessness, and suicide. But, I ask, would any of these things ever 

 have been possible, hut for sin ? Surely they are the very products 

 of sin ! 



Mr. W. HosTE, B.A. : Is physical death in man the result of his 

 transgression ? If sO; in what sense T Spiritually, Adam died 

 the day he sinned : he was then and there separated from God. 

 Physically he survived for some nine hundred years. It is note- 

 worthy that to ensure his physical death, in addition to the spiritual, 

 God took an additional precaution. He hedged him off from the 

 tree of life, by driving him out of the garden : " Now lest he put 

 forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life (that also forbids 



