OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. 



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away and our faith is vain, and we are yet in our sins. It has 

 always seemed to me that the negative argument drawn from the 

 question, "What became of the body ? is one which could never be 

 answered by the infidel. The Canon's idea about the clothes— I do 

 not quite agree that the clothes were left exactly as they were worn ; 

 I think I remember the expression that the napkin which was about 

 His head was not lying with the linen clothes but was put in a place 

 apart.* This seems to show that the Lord rose with deliberation. 

 There was no kind of hurry about the matter. One of the proofs I 

 suppose may be that the Lord appeared at different times of the day 

 to different classes of people, and that He appeared not to one sense, 

 as sight, but to other senses, as hearing, and handling, touch. I 

 cannot think that that was a spectral body which could speak and 

 eat and drink and argue and so forth with the disciples on the way 

 to Emmaus. 



We all thank the Canon for his valuable address. 



Rev. John Tuckwell, M.K.A.S.— I should like to join with 

 others in expressing my sense of indebtedness to Canon Girdlestone 

 for this very powerful and admirable address which he has given us. 

 It comes at a time when our thoughts are very much directed towards 

 that great event which has been described as the fundamental fact 

 of our Christian faith. Of course it raises many questions which it 

 is not possible for us to answer : many questions that await solution. 



It does not militate against the reasonableness of our faith in 

 supposing that the body of Christ did rise from the dead. The 

 apostle's language, "It was sown a natural body and raised a 

 spiritual body,"t shows us that there must have been a great and 

 fundamental change which took place. I apprehend we are to 

 understand that from that passage that Christ's resurrection bod v was 

 the first-fruits of a wide resurrection which is still to take place in 

 the case of all men who have died since humanity existed upon the 

 face of the earth. What our resurrection bodies will be we do not 

 know. There are many speculations upon the subject but most of 

 them are worthless. The only evidence and testimony we have is 

 that of Scripture. Away from that we flounder about in unfamiliar 

 regions. 



There is one point which the Canon might have occupied more 



* John xx, 6, 7 



+ 1 Cor. xv, 44. 



