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Colonel ALVES. — I would like to ask Canon Girdlestone if out- 

 side the Bible there are any allusions in ancient history to the 

 crucifixion of our Lord. There can be no doubt that the disciples 

 went to look for the body of our Lord and that body they did not 

 find, but they found the clothes which He could not have got out of 

 in the sepulchre, that He must have passed through them with a 

 body that was not subject to the limitations that we are subject to. 

 We do not know all the laws of matter. 



The risen body of our Lord was not subject to these limitations, 

 but that it was the real body I suppose there can be no doubt. 

 Anybody who reads Scripture honestly cannot dispute the fact 

 that it was a material resurrection of His substantial body. 



The Secretary. — Before this interesting meeting closes I wish 

 to return thanks to two individuals in the meeting. It is not 

 often we have opportunities of returning thanks to two persons 

 for the part in which they have taken ; but we have in the first 

 place to give our very sincere thanks to the venerable gentleman 

 who is now present with us, Dr. Peebles, for his kindness in 

 withdrawing the paper which was down in his name, and which 

 some of you have read, at the request of the Council. I feel sure 

 that it must have been rather a shock when I did my duty in 

 informing him, in the best terms I could command, that the Council 

 wished him to withdraw his paper, which he had taken such pains 

 to write, which is really full of a great deal of fine reasoning and 

 enthusiasm, and which breathes a very strong Christian spirit on 

 the part of the writer. It does not follow, however, that we all 

 agree in everything that an able Christian writer will write. 



Having therefore rendered this tribute to Dr. Peebles for the 

 very kind manner in which he fell in with the views of the 

 Council — some men would have protested and given a great deal 

 •of trouble and annoyance, but it was not at all what Dr. Peebles 

 has done — the question was who was to fill the gap, and 

 fortunately we had in the Council Room one who is amongst our 

 most leading and learned members, Canon Girdlestone, who very 

 kindly consented, on it being suggested to him, to give an address 

 on the Resurrection of our Lord, a subject most suitable for the 

 season, and for which he was fully prepared when called upon at 

 any time to deliver. It has been one of the clearest expositions 

 on the subject that I have ever listened to or read, and I feel 



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