250 REV. PROF. JAMES HOPE MOULTON, D.LIT. ; D.C.L., ETC., 0"N 



The Kev. John Tuckwell wished to join in the expression of 

 thanks to Professor Moulton for his very interesting paper. At the 

 same time he could not help thinking that very little value could be 

 attached to Zoroastrianism as a spiritual force in the world. A 

 religion which has no propaganda and accepts no proselytes, and has 

 no Personal Saviour, has no hope to give to our poor fallen humanity, 

 and however high its founder may soar in his ethical system, only 

 mocks us in our distress and the sooner it perishes off the face of 

 the earth the better. 



He was afraid he must differ from the Professor in one point. He 

 tells us " that we can hardly understand how immortality should 

 have been unthought of till the Old Testament canon was nearly 

 closed." It would be strange were it true. For his own part he did not 

 understand how any religion could exist without the three essential 

 fundamentals — a Supreme Being or superior beings of some sort, 

 immortality, and a future judgment. Every other intelligent nation 

 of antiquity had its doctrine of immortality and it would be 

 incredible if Israel, the most spiritually enlightened of them all, did 

 not possess it. But what did the expression about being " gathered 

 unto their fathers mean " 1 It could not mean buried in the same 

 grave. Again, in Isaiah liii, the Messiah sees of the " travail of 

 His soul " after He has been dead and buried. And when our Lord 

 encountered the Sadducees, He found the doctrine of immortality in 

 the Old Testament and said, "Ye do err not knowing the 

 Scriptures nor the power of God." 



Mr. Joseph Graham wished to take the subject in another 

 direction. He thought it was not fair to the paper to treat it as if 

 it were balancing Zoroastrianism against Christianity. Christianity 

 was complete, and as Christian men we knew all about it. But 

 from the beginning of the world, God, Who is no respecter of 

 persons, but accepts those in every nation that fear Him and Avork 

 righteousness, has revealed Himself to such as were able to 

 bear it. Christ is the Light that lighteth every man that cometh 

 into the world, and where we find evidences of such light outside 

 Christianity, and Judaism, we might well acknowledge it with thank- 

 fulness and give to Christ alone the glory. 



Miss Annie Irwin had listened to the paper with deep interest. 

 She had herself lived in India and worked among the Parsees, and 

 thought she could give two reason for the decay of Parseeism. The 



