The Reverend Mr. Ryder;

and he says that Calvinism is rejected by a majority of Christendom. He is mistaken. There is what they call the Evangelical Alliance. They met in this country in 1875 or 1876, and there were present representatives of all the evangelical churches in the world, and they adopted a creed, and that creed is that man is totally depraved; that there is only one way to be saved, and that is by faith, and by faith alone; and they would not allow any body to be represented there that did not believe that, and they would not allow a Unitarian there, and would not have allowed Dr. Ryder there, because he takes away from the Christian world the consolation naturally arising from the belief in hell.

Dr. Ryder is mistaken. All the orthodox religion of the day is Calvinism. It believes in the fall of man. It believes in the atonement. Its believes in the eternity of hell, and it believes in salvation by faith; that is to say, by credulity.

That is what they believe, and he is mistaken, and I want to tell Dr. Ryder to-day, if there is a God, and He wrote the old Testament, there is a hell. The God that wrote the Old Testament will have a hell. And I want to tell Dr. Ryder another thing, that the Bible teaches an eternity of punishment. I want to tell him that the Bible upholds the doctrine of hell. I want to tell him that if there is no hell, somebody ought to have said so, and Jesus Christ himself should not have said, "I will at the last day say: 'Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'" If there was not such a place, Christ would not have said, "Depart from me, ye cursed, and these shall go hence into everlasting fire." And if you, Dr. Ryder, are depending for salvation on the God that wrote the Old Testament, you will inevitably be eternally damned.

There is no hope, for you. It is just as bad to deny hell as it is to deny heaven. It is just as much blasphemy to deny the devil as to deny God, according page 21 to the orthodox creed. He admits that the Jews were polygamists, but, he says, how was it they finally quitted it? I can tell you—the soil was so poor they couldn't afford it.

Prof. Swing says the Bible is a poem. Dr. Ryder says it is a picture. The garden of Eden is pictorial; a pictorial snake—and a pictorial woman I suppose—and a pictorial man—and maybe it was a pictorial sin. And only a pictorial atonement.

Then there is another gentlemen, and he a rabbi,