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It lias remained for a later age to enunciate the doctrine that 
the surest expedient against care is to banish Him. But where 
this expedient is tried, the witness of Him still remains, to 
increase the care by the feeling of severance from Him : scep- 
ticism enhances sorrow by the addition of its own. A true 
philosophy, a true estimate of the needs of humanity, its ten- 
dencies, its latent powers, its patent frailties, points, equally with 
religion, to a very different course, and a very different result. 
“ Ita ergo/’ says St. Bernard, “ sursum cor, sursum clamor, 
sursum desideria, sursum conversatio, sursum intentio, ct 
omnis expectatio tua desursum sit : clama in coelum ut exau- 
diaris, ct Qui in coelis cst Pater mittat auxilium de tribulatione, 
eripiat a tribulatione, et glorificet in resurrectione.” 
The Chairman. — I am sure you will allow me to return thanks to Dr. 
Thornton for his interesting paper. I may, perhaps, be allowed to make 
one remark to give you an opinion having reference to the argument 
bearing upon physiognomy. Some years since I was visiting the studio 
of the celebrated American sculptor, Hiram Power, whom I found to be 
as good a talker as a sculptor. I asked him “if he knew that anthropologists 
say that it is impossible to study the subject of anthropology perfectly 
without considering the effect of religion ; that the physical effect which 
religion has upon the countenance is a prime factor in the estimate 1 ” He 
replied, “ Well, I have had a good deal of experience among the revivalists 
of America, and I found this uniformly, that though individuals had been 
only five or six weeks under the influence of religious enthusiasm, following 
the movement as mere camp-followers, their countenances were perfectly 
changed in the time by the fact that they had been under such an influence.” 
Now that, coming from a man like Power, whose profession involved the study 
of the features, is not without interest to us, and I can quite understand 
Dr. Thornton’s statement that unhappiness is to be found in the physiognomy 
of the sceptic, just as an expression of happiness will be found, as a rule, in 
the face of the true Christian, for who can be happy if he is not ? (Cheers.) 
Mr. II. Coleman, LL.D. — I think that the paper which we have heard 
read to-night contains much that is admirable, but it also contains some 
weak points. The question which we ought to discuss is not whether scepticism 
may not lie attended by certain sorrows, but whether the mere fact that 
scepticism may be so attended is an argument against it from a Christian 
point of view. The Christian dispensation leads us to expect sorrow, and 
