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of type running through revelation, yet it so falls on men of diverse characters, 
that we do not all of us see it alike. We have in the New Testament itself 
three or four most striking instances of this. There can he no doubt that 
the Christianity which is taught by St. Paul, St. James, St. John, and St. 
Peter, possesses the same spirit which runs through their teaching ; never- 
theless, it would be vain to deny that there is a great variety contained in 
that unity. It is impossible to' avoid seeing that some of these writers seem 
to view Christianity from a somewhat different point of view. This paper 
brings before us the many-sidedness of creation and revelation, and the 
folly of taking very narrow views of divine revelation — of supposing that 
our own limited ideas afford the only adequate mode of considering revelation. 
As Dr. Currey has well and ably pointed out, in respect to the general 
varieties of mankind, we may see that Christianity, speaking from a historical 
point of view, is applied in many forms, and thus is suited to every variety 
of the human mind. Admitting that the human mind appears in an im- 
mense variety of aspects, and starts with different modes of conception, it 
seems plain that Christianity has been modified— and in saying this I desire 
to include the whole Bible — so as to adapt it to all the various phases of the 
human mind. Let us take, for example, Germanic Christianity, and by this I 
mean that type of Christianity which the great German writers have accepted ; 
and we see one grand type of Christianity. Another type of Christianity is that 
which has been accepted by the Greek writers, and it is of a very different kind 
from that I have just mentioned. There is another type of Christianity which 
has been accepted by the Celtic writers, and this is very different from either 
of the other two. I do not know whether I might not greatly enlarge upon 
this topic ; but at any rate, what I have said will serve to draw attention to 
this great fact, that as creation is many-sided, and may be viewed in 
so many different aspects, and under so many different characters, so, in 
the same way, Christianity and revelation are also many-sided, and as wide 
as man himself. Therefore, it seems to me that it has been a great mistake 
to look upon this subject from too limited a point of view. We have been 
too apt to set up our own creed as the only right view of things, and to 
put down everybody else’s creed as wrong ; and in doing this, I think we have 
been guilty of overlooking the wide foundation of natural and revealed 
religion. There are one or two passages in the paper to which I will draw 
attention as containing points on which I most entirely agree with the 
author. In § 32 he says, “ The statements of the Bible are founded on 
the fact that God is the Almighty Sovereign of His creatures ; that He can 
alone create, and He alone destroy.” This is a great and profound truth, and 
one which we are often tempted to ignore. We are, I think, too often in the 
habit of laying it down that many of the peculiar structures of the animal 
creation have resulted, not from the act of the Divine Being, but from the fall 
of man. It seems to me that this is a very dangerous assumption. I fully 
admit that there are certain forms of animal life, the peculiarities of which 
one cannot but wonder at exceedingly, and which, looking at them in the 
