224 
The two qualities are very different qualities, existing according to tbe “ n ‘ 
ditions under which the matter is placed. I do not see, therefore, that Mr. 
Keddie’s criticism upon the use of these terms has any very good foundation. 
These are all the points which have occurred to me m relation to this paper. 
(C Bev! s. Wainwright. — I do not know whether I shall trespass too much 
on your time, hut I have not been here for more than a year, and, mdee , 
came here to-night hoping to hear read a paper on a totally different subject. 
I join in a large degree in the feeling to which Mr. Titcomb has given 
expression, because it has always been my desire to come here in order 
that I might learn what I could on the scientific side rather than contribute 
to the discussions on the theological side. Still I think there ,s a danger in 
retaining one’s theology and in standing aloof from argument as if theology 
deserved to he so badly thought of as it has been lately Even ‘ 
Butler’s time he tells us that the truths which were called the Christian 
truths had come to be regarded as unreal, and to he discarded without exa- 
mination. The same thing exists now, hut with a greater gravity, which 
makes it the more noteworthy. StiU I think Christian mmisters can hardly 
he doing justice to their solemn functions when they stand aloof, forgetting 
that it is the first requisite of a minister that he should be a man ; and 1 a 
minister, whatever he may he in addition, does not forfeit his own manhood 
he can never look on with indifference, and never forget his right to speaR 
out openly on all matters which are dear to him, because it is m the power 
of others to say that he speaks professionally. We must be judged by what 
we say and by the grounds upon which we say it, and not by our P rof cf s ““- 
I cannot but think with regard to this paper that there might be appl ... 
certain scientific men the language in which one of the Fathers descn 
certain divines. He said, “ It is true that there are mmisters whose lives so 
ill comport with their profession that they might be compared to fishes, 
which, though always swimming in brine, have yet no salt m emse v • 
(Laughter.) There are quasi-scientific men clothing themselves m scientific 
garb, and saying “ We are the men of wisdom,” but they have no scientific sa 
in themselves, although they swim in the brine. (Hear .hear.) Zt 18 ^ 
to test their pretensions and examine what they are like I do not blame 
Mr. Bow for one thing he said, and I maintain that he sho wed his wisdom 
by declaring that he would not enter into the question of the demotion 
between thf non-finite and the infinite. I do not deny that an atte “P‘ ha “ 
been made to set up such a distinction, but it is an illustration _of what I 
venture to call darkening wisdom by words without knowledge. You do not 
seriously mean to say that “non” means not, and “finite bounded, and y 
that “ not bounded ” is a very different thing from unbounded ? If y™ 
do, I say “ Thank you for nothing.” That sort of reasoning would not do m 
any of the relations of your daily life, and the sort of phdoi sophy 
not stand material tests is not the sort to be listened to when 
are involved. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Bow said he would not go mto .hat cU 
tinction, and I think he thereby showed his wisdom 
