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heavens, and give ear, 0 earth," and ended with chapter xlviii, 22, 

 " There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked." The second 

 division commenced at chapter xlix, ' ; Listen, 0 isles, unto me; and 

 hearken, ye people, from far : " and ended at chapter lvii, 21, " There 

 is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." The third section began 

 with chapter lviii, 1, " Cry aloud, spare not," and ended at lxvi, 24, 

 u Their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched." It 

 was also interesting to note that the first call was addressed to the 

 Jews, the second to the Gentiles, the last to the Jews again. 



This wonderful prophecy thus contained, in a kind of acrostic- 

 form, a revelation of God's plan in His dealings with men through 

 the ages. He first called out the Jews (Genesis xvii) to be His 

 witnesses in the earth. They, proving themselves unworthy, the 

 call was then sent to the Gentiles (Acts xiii, 46). But, " God hath 

 not (finally) cast away his people which He foreknew " (Romans xi, 

 2) ; and therefore the third call was again to the Jews, who are 

 yet to be restored : " For the gifts and calling of God are without 

 repentance " (Romans xi, 29). 



The Rev. John Tuckwell said : The learned Chancellor's paper 

 is very timely. Many of the evils of the higher criticism arise from 

 attempting to study the Bible as literature. It cannot be done 

 without ignoring its purpose and destroying its Divine vitality. 



At the back of the higher criticism is the theory of Evolution, and 

 you cannot treat the Bible along the lines of Evolution without 

 rejecting the supernatural. In the prophecies of Isaiah we have the 

 name of Cyrus the Persian mentioned 150 years before his time. 

 How do the critics get over that fact 1 By the simple expedient 

 of adopting the theory that there were two or ten Isaiahs, the 

 author of Isaiah xlv living nearly 200 years later than the first 

 Isaiah, writing history under the garb of prophecy, and getting the 

 world to accept the fraud. They cannot understand any super- 

 natural inspiration mentioning a man by name 200 years before- 

 hand. But a similar case occurs in I Kings xiii, 2, where a prophet 

 prophesies against the idolatrous altar of Jeroboam, and says : 



O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born 

 unto the house of David, Josiah by name : and upon thee shall he 

 ofter the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee." 

 That was fulfilled 350 years later. 



But another way suggested out of the difficulty is to tamper with 



