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(apart from the Scriptures altogether) with the definition which Mr. Row 
gives of faith. We arrive at some conclusion, and Mr. Row says that is 
necessarily faith ; but I deny it. I have not faith, for instance, that Mr. 
Row is sitting on that chair opposite. I know it ; if we are not to make 
use of words in a sense that destroys all sense. But, on the other hai.d, I 
have faith or believe that the gentleman who went out of the room half a 
minute ago is now going downstairs or is in the street. I do not know that, 
but I have a conviction or faith that it is probably so. We know what our 
Lord himself said to St. Thomas after the resurrection, when he said he would 
not believe till he had seen and felt our Lord’s wounds. There we have an 
express illustration of the difference between actually seeing or knowing a 
thing and believing. I might have found one or two other passages in the 
paper to comment upon ; but you will readily believe me when I say, that it 
is not the most pleasant thing for me to have to make remarks of this kind 
on a paper which has come from one for whom I entertain such great respect, 
and who has given us such valuable papers before. And I am most glad to 
admit that Mr. Row has done something to show that Christianity has taken 
up all that was good in nature and philosophy, and all that was good and 
true and intended to be permanent in the older revelation, and that he has 
put these matters on a fair basis before his opponents. With the exceptions 
I have pointed out, I agree generally with his conclusions ; and I think, as 
Mr. Titcomb has very well said, that the paper shows that unquestionably 
all mere human philosophy must bow its head before Christianity. (Hear, 
hear.) 
The Chairman.— I am sorry that I cannot altogether agree with Mr. 
Reddie in his observations on this paper. I have come up from the country 
to-night, and I have not had time to study the paper carefully ; but I cannot 
help thinking that when Mr. Row comes to reply he will say he has used the 
word “Christian” in a general sense for the whole of what we call the 
Christian revelation, and that where it occurs it occurs as a general term to 
include the whole of God’s revelation to man in the Old Testament, and, 
therefore, all the law and the prophets 
Mr. Row. — Certainly ; that is so. 
The Chairman. — And that when he speaks of Christianity, it is as a 
complete development of that revelation which was gradually unfolded to 
man from the fall until our Lord appeared. If Mr. Row did not include all 
that, I fully endorse the censures of Mr. Reddie ; but I think Mr. Reddie 
has been mistaken in his view-SH jj^Hj -fl 
Mr. Reddie.— I beg to say that I have very carefully read the paper, 
and I did not mean my remarks as censures ; but I could not help noticing 
those passages where Mr. Row has distinctly spoken of Christianity as 
actually opposed to Judaism. 
Mr. Row. — I was not running a parallel between Christianity and 
Judaism in the least degree. 
The Chairman.— I think the main spirit of the paper is exceedingly 
valuable for the principles which Mr. Row has enunciated, and that we are 
