And now, having said enough on the general principle, let us begin by applying it to the variations which exist amongst us with reference to the great principles which lie within the circle of Evangelical truth, and in which we are in the main agreed. I hear a good deal of the disunion of the Evangelical body, but I do not believe it. I am fully alive to our defects in organization, and I believe you will always find such defects amongst persons trained as we are to think for ourselves, and to act on our own responsibility; but I believe there is a vast amount of real loving Christian brotherhood amongst us, and I doubt whether in the whole world you would find five hundred thinking men more completely of one heart and one mind than that loving band of brethren who meet year after year in this hall, under the presidency of our venerable friend. Still we have our variations, and I venture to suggest that these variations, such as they are, arise much more from our losing sight of the proportions of truth, than from error as to truth itself. Some, _e.g._, of us who are deeply interested in prophetic inquiry, may carry the subject too far, and become too much absorbed by an intense interest of the study; while other dear brethren have been so much impressed by our mistakes, that they think it wiser to neglect the subject altogether; and thus it comes to pass that the proportion of truth is missed by us both. Is it not possible that some of us are so impressed with the grandeur of the universal offer of a free salvation in Christ Jesus, that we scarcely give sufficient prominence to the doctrine of election; while others have our hearts so filled with the deep sense of electing love, that we feel some difficulty in making a universal offer? And in such a case does not the difficulty arise much more from our losing sight of the relative position of two truths, than of either party being in error as to either one? Each can prove his point, but the question is, Do they preserve the proportion of truth? So again, is there not a danger of those amongst us whose own mind is occupied by the Jews, seeing everything in Jewish light, and forgetting the election from the Gentiles; while those who are absorbed in Gentile work are in equal danger of withholding his proper portion from the Jew?