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ZtoT (c“ in which we must believe on the tesfcimo ^ of » 
or infidel" Ed ™* 0 **~“ 1 thiuk i<; is unforunate that some atheist, sceptic 
or infidel has not taken part in the discussion to-night. I protest aeaZ 
1 eing su P p °sed that Christians are prepared to believe anything 0 that 
xTZ l : t f th r- ° Ur beHef mUSt Stand u P°n something 5 valid 
ie accepted as true. I cannot agree with Dr Rio-tr ti,,f 
obliged to accept as truth, matters of faiih ^ SluWy boon 
«mble and unmteffigible. I think that such statements are Zh Tore 
Clifford T gS n ;; lla ' li,y tian number of articles by Professor 
re I t T 'T T 7 Pr0fCSSOr Clifford ia present to hear Zpa” 
Clifford In h° 7 “ 8Iee Wilh that MW »Wok I think answers Professor 
STiV- nur ir: f Tdo w r, r°\r 
irons^thinking that the paper is brimfn, i ^ 
must be considered. They a oft to b t ??*" f™ rtich 
do not prove the case itnt a * before a “ llll »"gb they 
as they have done at Sion ^ ^ ^ 
facts which we cannot prove ecieniificaUy! o7„ZLh ZZT 1 
any sensible evidence, we are more or less lying Now this kind fTT 
— Iven” mlthematbs, the" most^ex-mtll 
which you cannot prove and in tl,. sc ‘““ s ' r<iStS ° n ™ s 
tarv fniHic.. r r P . ’ , 11 t e same wa 7 wo cannot prove the elemen- 
tary truths of religion ; but, given certain facts of our moral and s^rZl 
consciousness, and we are prepared to confirm them by „tl “Ls wh h 
we can prove. Those who have read Professor Clifford’, i f f 
more fully appreciate the force and vJnHf pi l”^ ^ th « 
would have added much to the interest If t£ ' "“Vl 
taken up and argued the subject from Professor Clifford’s T T 
But at the same time it must be remeniberedtlnt Ch , H ° f ^ 
thing far higher than a belief in probabilities', or even ^7" 
merely human testimony. Faith is thn * TL . bcllcf 3,1 
because it is true and rests uliim t l * f aD ° e ^ 1V3ne Revelation 
heart and conscience ° U the deepest fictions of the 
Dr. Irons— L et mo offer a word of exnlamtmn t 
that Professor Wace’s paper was a full or a r not mean ‘o say 
of intuition ; for that you woTld have to Tf ° f ^ 
tineau’s in Tlu Nineteenth Century ■ but I didf ° T * '* P ? P6r . 1,3 Dr - Mar ‘ 
the assumption of the whole paper which would^ ^ thatui ‘ ultlon wa * 
without it. 1 ’ 1 would havo been unintelligible 
