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THE REV. CANON E. MCCLURE, M.A._, M.K.I.A., ON 



It is a little over a hundred years ago since the Battle of 

 Trafalgar was fought. Experts have from time to time examined 

 log-books, reminiscences of the survivors, letters written 

 immediately after the battle, and yet we see, from a quite 

 recent controversy in The Times, that the mode of Nelson's 

 attack is still a matter of question. Are experts of to-day 

 likely to succeed better in dealing with documents, none of 

 them quite contemporaneous, describing events of nineteen 

 hundred years ago ? As the world of to-day inherits in its 

 civilization all that was worth preserving of its past, so the 

 Church of Christ of to-day, a living organism, inherits all that 

 under Divine guidance has been worthy of permanence in the 

 deposit of the faith once for all given to it, and developed 

 throughout the ages. 



Historical scholarship has its uses. It can show the steps, 

 for instance, by which our monarchy, from the reign of King 

 John, became, through Magna Charta, the Bill of Bights, the 

 Act of Settlement, etc., what it is to-day. But could it reimpose 

 by any rational process the political system of King John's 

 time on the nation of to-day ? And something like this is the 

 attempt of the eschatologists — to give us, under the sanction of 

 " scholarship," a new Christ and a new Gospel for that which 

 evolution, under Divine selection, has secured i'or us. The 

 Church of to-day, with its long career of conquest behind it, 

 has in its living energies a prestige and promise with which 

 the substitutes advanced by Modernism could never compete. 



There is one great difficulty which the Modernists have 

 never seemingly faced. Supposing for the moment that their 



The Testament of the XII Patriarchs sees the eventual triumph of 

 Israel, the Conversion (or destruction) of the Gentiles, and the establish- 

 ment on earth of the Messianic kingdom, in which there will be only one 

 people and one tongue. Then follow the Resurrection and Judgment. 



The Psalms of Solomon deal with the triumph of Israel, the return of 

 the ten tribes, a period of prosperity following, ending with vengeance 

 on adversaries. 



The documents here briefly described, together with the Biblical 

 passages dealing with the " last things," form the basis of the startling 

 views of the Eschatologists. The chief Biblical passages are here given, 

 that the reader may have before him the whole of the real foundations 

 upon which such a wonderful superstructure is raised. 



i Sam. ii, 10 ; Ps. xcv, 13 ; Isa. ii, 10-22 ; xiii, 6-13 ; xxvii, 1, 2 ; xxx 

 33 ; lxvi, 15-24 ; Jer. xxx, 7, 24 ; Dan. vii, 9 ; Joel ii, 1-17 ; ii, 18-32 ; 

 Amos v, 18-20 ; Zeph. i, 7-14 : Mai. iv, 1-6. 



Matt, xii, 36 ; xiii, 40-43 ; xvi, 27 ; xxiv, 31 to end ; Mark xiii ; Luke 

 xvii, 20 to end ; Acts i, 7 ; ii, 11 ; iii, 20 to end ; xvii, 31 ; Bom. ii, 5-16 ; 



