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very position of the Argo proves that its attached story was not of Grecian 
origin. No, there is something very mysterious both in the origin and in the 
universality of the whole sphere. And my conviction is, that the more 
carefully it is studied the clearer will be its testimony to events of a universal 
character, both in themselves and in their influence on mankind. In this as 
in so many other ways, “ the heavens declare the glory of God.” 
Mr. T. Harriot. — I am about to furnish an illustration of the truth that 
“fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” I have no knowledge of this 
particular subject, but I do not see why we should refrain from expressing 
the convictions excited in us by the arguments we hear used on sacred sub- 
jects, any more than we should curb the freedom with which we discuss 
secular matters. It appears to me that the whole gist of Mr. Titcomb’s 
paper is based upon this assumption — “ granting the truth of the Pentateuch.” 
Now, I am not a sceptic — for forty-five of my fifty-one years have I drunk 
at the fountain of living waters, and the older I grow the more convinced 
I am of the truth and beauty of our religion. I therefore trust that no 
one will imagine that I am a sceptic. But what a sceptic would say is 
this — that the whole of Mr. Titcomb’s cumulative evidence would prove 
the very contrary of what the author wishes to prove, namely, that the works 
of creation, like the Creator Himself, had been eternal ; that there was 
nothing new under the sun ; and that all things had been going on from 
generation to generation just as they go on now. Supposing, by way of argu- 
ment, that the incidents narrated in the Pentateuch had occurred in some 
small commercial spot on the earth, and men going abroad had carried the 
legend with them — some being uneducated men who could not write, while 
others could, — the same spirit would manifest itself in all the various versions 
that would thus be promulgated, though the versions might differ very con- 
siderably. That is one impression that has been created in my mind by this 
paper, which does not seem to me to furnish any evidence of the truth of the 
Pentateuch. I must also confess to having an impression that the faith 
which must sustain us is not founded upon the evidence of things that have 
been seen. It brings us to God without evidence, and compels us to believe 
that He is God, and that He is the shelter of those who come to Him. It is 
to me a question whether any value at all is to be attached to the sort 
of evidence which is contained in Mr. Titcomb’s paper. 
The Rev. G. A. Row. — I should not have made any remarks on this subject, 
for I have been too much occupied to be able to estimate this paper as a 
matter of evidence, but I was much surprised at the remark made by the 
last speaker, that we must believe without evidence. Now I enter my most 
emphatic protest against such an assertion, for if it were true it would make 
a large mass of thinking men unbelievers. With regard to what has fallen 
from Mr. Graham, I am afraid he will not be able to make out his position 
that the cross was never a pre-Christian symbol, and I am also afraid that 
learned men will not bear him out in some of his derivations. In fact a 
great number of Greek fables must be traced to Indian sources, and if it is 
shown that there is a similarity between them and the statements in the 
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