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kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 
Behold I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we 
shall all be changed.” * From the natural to the spiritual. 
From the mortal to tho immortal. From the corruptible to the 
incorruptible. “And as we have borne the image of the 
earthly f we shall bear the image of the heavenly.” % 
All round us we see the rising of a tide of scepticism which 
we must do our best to keep back — or at least confine within 
narrow limits. From all quarters we hear the warning notes of 
an intellectual and spiritual conflict. I trnst that the young men 
of our families — Christian families in every sense — will not flinch 
from taking their proper share of the solemn duties which such 
warfare involves. Let them not be alarmed. Religion is not 
going to disappear. Christianity is not going to be dismissed. 
History has shown how God refuses to leave Himself without a 
witness in the hearts of men, and history will show, too, 
how God in Christ will maintain His Sovereignty and retain 
the universal inheritance upon which He entered, that day 
He left this earth to re-assume His own glory. In the con- 
flict of future years new facts will come to light; new aspects 
of trnth will appear ; new conceptions will be created ; new 
words will be coined ; new phrases invented to suit the larger 
life and vaster knowledge that are to be true. But firm in our 
faith in God and in His Christ, we know that the Spirit of grace 
and truth will overrule all for good. His truth is changeless and 
eternal as Himself, and while new facts, new ideas, new forms 
crowd upon men’s minds, they will only live and last, as they 
harmonize with the eternal verities of God — as they lead to the 
acknowledgment of His perpetual presence and activity in the 
physical universe, and in the Spiritual Kingdom, which He has 
called into being. 
The Chairman. — I am sure you will join with me in returning our best 
thanks to Mr. McDougall for his very interesting paper ; it is now open for 
any one desiring to do so to offer remarks thereon. 
Rev. G. Currey, D.D. — I feel scarcely competent to enter upon a 
subject which involves so many abstract thoughts. At the Same time I 
have great pleasure in expressing my sincere thanks to Mr. McDougall for 
the able manner in which he has maintained some of those truths which 
are dear, I trust, to the hearts of all now present. The feature of the 
paper which struck me most forcibly was this, that while Mr. McDougall 
* 1 Corinthians xv. 50, 51. t xoVk<5c— ifrovptmoc. 
X 1 Corinthians xv. 49. 
