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The Chairman. — I would call attention to one of the three paragraphs 
with which the Principal of St. Aidan’s College concludes his remarks. He 
says that Mr. Blencowe’s paper protests against three erroneous tendencies of 
the present day ; and the second of these, to which I wish to call attention, is 
“ The tendency to equalise all religions as being so many fairly parallel forms 
of religion.” This is the grand fallacy against which I want to protest— the 
assumption that Christianity is one of many religions. That is a Trpwror \pevdog 
to set out with, and against it we must take our stand at once. It is of no 
use arguing how far this or that form of development may have gone from the 
original truth ; we must first of all lay down that Christianity is the truth, and 
that, in proportion as other religions resemble Christianity, they approach the 
truth ; while, in proportion as they depart from pure Christianity, in the same 
proportion they depart from the truth. We know very well that the earlier 
people of God did what they could to corrupt the truth revealed to them, but 
that, having the written law, they could not do so, as they were unable to 
falsify it. So also, after receiving the later Christian Revelation, men have 
done a good deal towards corrupting it ; but, there being a written and lively 
oracle of God, they could not succeed in perverting it. Let us, then, protest 
against the assumption that Christianity is anything but the one assertion of 
the truth. 
Admiral E. G. Fishbourne, R.N., C.B. — I can quite understand the 
growth of infidelity when such doctrines as those noticed in the paper 
are set forth by certain learned professors, and I think we are very 
much indebted to Mr. Blencowe for having overturned Dr. Max Muller’s 
arguments with his own weapons. There can be no comparison between 
Christianity and any other form of religion. There is this one principle 
that separates Christianity from all other forms of faith, and it is one 
which is denied by Dr. Max Muller, namely, that Christianity is essentially 
experimental. The doctrine must be put to each individual, and be a revela- 
tion to that individual soul ; yet the communication between that individual 
soul and its Maker Dr. Max M tiller denies. Now, there is really no other 
religion but this, because it is the only one which has God behind it to 
give that response which the individual worshipper seeks for. Yet we know 
that wherever we find man, throughout the world, he is a worshipping 
animal ; he may be degraded, but he recognises a superior Being, to whom 
he feels himself responsible, and when he fails to obey his inward sense of 
duty and obligation he is condemned in himself, and feels that he is liable 
to the severer condemnation of his God. With regard to language, Dr. Max 
Muller throws the Bible over altogether as an historic record. It is distinctly 
stated in Scripture that “the Lord God brought every beast of the field, and 
every fowl of the air, unto Adam, to see what he would call them ; and 
whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof.” 
Here, therefore, we have language from the beginning, even before a help- 
meet for Adam was found. 
Rev. J. James. — More than one President of the “British Association 
