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EEV. G. F. WHIDBOENE, M.A., E.G.S., ON 



or body who enforces obedience by sanctions and penalties, 

 e.g., " the law of Moses," " the law of the ten command- 

 ments," the " ceremonial law," the " civil law," the 

 *' ecclesiastical law," etc. 



2. The order or method of operation of an external or internal 



force, e.g., " the law of gravitation," " Kepler's laws," " the 

 law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free 

 from the law of sin and death — I delight in the law of 

 God after the inward man, but I see a law in my members 

 warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into 

 captivity to the law of sin in my members." (St. Paul.) 



3. The manifestation of the attributes of God as revealed in 



the order and method by which God governs the material 

 world and the world of life and animated existence, e.g., 

 "The laws of nature, are the tlioiights of God^^ (Hans 

 Christian Oersted, the Danish philosopher, the discoverer 

 of the laws of electro-magnetism). 



There are many other meanings which are often designated by 

 the word " law." It is important, therefore, in entering on any 

 description about law or laws, to define preciseJy the meaning in which 

 the word " law " is used. 



From Rev. C. Godfrey Ashwin, M.A. — 



Thank you for sending me a copy of Mr. Whidl:)orne's paper. 



Though we may assume that most, if not all, the members of the 

 Victoria Institute will agree with the conclusion of the first part, 

 that the only " supernatural " is God, and everything in the universe 

 is as natural as the birth of a babe, I think there will not be the 

 same unanimity as to the nature of the universe to be expected from 

 consideration of the attributes of the Deity referred to in the paper. 

 Probably they would be nearly as varied as the imaginations of 

 those who endeavoured to deduce the picture, without the object- 

 lesson of the world, as we know it. 



Deformity is as conspicuous as beauty; badness, almost as 

 prominent, if not more prominent, than goodness ; and if science 

 and scripture agree in attributing this chaos to evil, do either of 

 them distinctly point us to the fons malorum ^ 



And if "the Power of Evil" — emphasised by a capital "P" — is 

 intended to point to a " Power " independent of the One and Only 



