The discussion which followed showed that all the more learned
members of the Wesleyan Church supported Mr. Davison, and general satisfaction was expressed with the whole drift of his paper. It was proposed that it should be published in extols() in the Wesleyan papers, to which an amendment was moved that it should only be printed for private circulation amongst the Wesleyan ministers ; but this amendment was lost by a large majority. The Wesleyan ministers present not only indicated their general approval of Mr. Davison's line of thought on the subject, but laid it down that it was a line of thought which ought to be made known to tho laity of their Church, and not reserved for consump- tion by the ministry alone. All this is very satisfactory, To accept the inspiration of the Bible as expressing the continuity that threads together the various great landmarks of revelation, and to accept the complexity of the meaning whi01/ should be attached to the word "inspiration," as one which can be better understood in the context of its historical evoltation, than by any cut-and-dried theory of its limits, are the two, main condition of a profitable reading of the Bible in the present day.
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