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question of Atonement, and he held that the doctrine of the 

 " Blood " did not appeal to the majority of the educated laity of the 

 XXth century. 



The Eev. A. Cociiranp: said : If it be true as the last speaker 

 said in his quotation from Sir A. Conan Doyle, that the rising 

 generation has largely outgrown the Doctrine of the Atonement, 

 he could only say that he was very sorry for the rising generation. 

 As for Sir Oliver Lodge, and others like him, the language they used 

 only revealed their great ignorance of the real teaching of the Bible. 

 The questions that lie behind the statement, " the Incarnate Son 

 incurred the entire liability of the race that He came to redeem " 

 (p. 48), are " Why did the Son take upon Himself the liability of the 

 race," and " How could He do it " 1 The Apostle St. Paul in Col. i, 

 speaks of Him not only as " the First-born from the dead," but also 

 as "the First-born of all creation." In verse 16, we read in the 

 Authorized Version " by Him all things were created," but in the 

 Greek and in the Kevised Version, it is " in Him." This passage in 

 the Epistle deals with a wider subject than the reconciliation of the 

 human race alone. It speaks of the reconciliation of all creation. 

 The Son was the original Head of all things, and before the fall of 

 man. He formed a real link between God and the human race. 

 After the fall, He followed that race, to which He was so closely 

 linked, into its fallen condition, so that He might redeem it, and 

 bring it back to God. It was as the original Head of man that 

 Christ incurred and took upon Himself the burden of man's sin. 

 The great questions were not so much that of Atonement, as " Who 

 made the Atonement 1 " and " What is His relationship to the human 

 race 1 " 



The Kev. F. B. Johnston said that Mr. Schwartz had quoted from 

 a number of writers, and claimed that the majority of educated men 

 at the present time was on his side. Truth has always been held by 

 the minority of men ; the carnal mind kicks at the Doctrine of the 

 Atonement. 



The Rev. F. Cecil Lovely, rose to protest against the attitude 

 Mr. Schwartz habitually took in putting forth views that were 

 diametrically opposed to the constitutions of the Victoria Institute. 

 Mr. Schwartz did not appear to have any desire to investigate 

 Philosophical and Scientific questions of truth ; but only to assert 

 opinions, which were often offensive to those whose belief was 



