hardly be blamed if we take a little innocent academic pleasure in admiring some of the ironies of history by the way. In an hour I cannot document exhaustively the whole Christian history of this question. I can only draw your attention to what have come to seem to me the key-documents of that history, and say why I find them to be such. The Scriptural evidence has recently been treated in its main outlines by Dr. Thornton, and for this reason—and also for another which I shall state in a moment