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man, but holy men of God spake as they were borne up by the Holy 

 Ghost." 



Again, I do not think the Lecturer made enough of the fact that 

 prophecy in Scripture is distinctly represented as that which is 

 supernatural and Divine. Moses in the book of Deuteronomy, 

 xviii, 22, said "when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if 

 the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the 

 Lord hath not spoken." 



Scripture prophecy is thus something far more than the shrewd 

 guess of a political prophet. We have an illustration in Daniel ii, 

 where we are told how Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of the three 

 great kingdoms that should succeed that of Babylon. After the last 

 of these, we are told that " the God of heaven will set up a kingdom 

 which shall never be destroyed," and we may be sure that that 

 prophecy will be fulfilled, even as the prophecy of the preceding 

 kingdoms was. This surely is supernatural knowledge, and not 

 merely the foresight of political sagacity. 



A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the Lecturer, who replied 

 briefly to the criticisms which had been made, and the Meeting 

 adjourned at 6 p.m. 



