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value of the results propounded by that newest and most 
dangerous and empirical of all sciences, the science of com- 
parative theology. He will be able to separate ideas from 
expressions, symbols from expositions, to differentiate between 
things apparently similar, and to adduce congruities from prac- 
tices and formulae seemingly discordant. He will be able to 
measure the height of human metaphysical theology, if not to 
gauge the depth of human depravity and religious sin. He 
will bestow a pitying admiration on the wisdom ot the wisest 
men of old, and feel the quickeniugs of an awakened sense of 
gratitude towards the Giver of all good things for the revelation 
of His word and doctrine. Finally, he will, if he possess the 
graces of humility and industry, without which a man can 
never become a true student with profit to himself, finally, 
he will learn to value more highly the books of the Jewish and 
Christian dispensations, since he will perceive that they tvere 
not cunnmglv-de vised fables nor simply scientific reveries. 
Grateful for the aids now given to mankind, and wiser by 
the narration of the failures of other and greater men, he will 
go on his way rejoicing that that Supreme Being whom the 
heaven of heavens cannot contain, nor the powers of Natuic 
express, can dwell in his heart by faith, and has led His people 
through the wilderness of Jordan from the bondage of Egyptian 
philosophy into the glorious liberty ol the children ot God, to 
Whom be all the Glory. 
The Chairman— We have to offer our best thanks to Mr. Cooper for his 
valuable and interesting paper ; and to Mr. Gorman for having so ably read it. 
Mr. Rendall. — I only rise to ask one question. In the fourth paragraph 
of the paper I find this passage “ This simile is of great value, because it 
proves that the cardinal doctrine of a resurrection of the soul and body was 
the chief cause of the Egyptian adoration of the sun as the visible creator and 
resuscitator of the inanimate world.” I wish to know how it is made out, 
either bv the writer of the passage quoted or by any one else, that the doc- 
trine of a resurrection of the body was held at that time ? I have never 
supposed that the doctrine of the resurrection of the body was held either by 
the Egyptians or by any other nation at that time, nor do I find how it 
appears in the passage referred to. It has often been treated as one o 
the most distinctive doctrines of Christianity, and this, if I recollect rightly, 
was Bishop Butler's view in his Analogy. According to Herodotus, “the 
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