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 VARIOUS WORDS ABOUT GOD. 197 tne basis of the republic of God found in the Mosaic teaching of the unity of God and the righteousness of the divine will ; and Miss Josephine Lazarus dealt with the development of the early Hebrew idea of a partisan and cruel tribal god, into the sublime conception of the universal and eternal God, the ruler of nature and the moral ruler of the universe. In an eighth-day paper Professor D. G. Lyon put first of Jewish con- tributions to civilization the doctrine of one God ruling and judging in all the earth. Jewish theism casting off traditional limitations to become a universal religion was presented on the seventeenth day by Dr. Emil G. Hirsch. The origin of two elemental truths about God, the divine immanence and the divine transcendence. Professor G. S. Goodspeed, in a fifth-day paper, referred to the two dead religions of Assyria and Egypt, and on the same day J. A. S. Grant pointed out the correspondence with Egyptian ideas of some of the elements of Hebrew theism. The Christian view of God was formally argued on the second day of the Parliament by Rev. Dr. Augustine F. Hewitt, by Rev. Dr. Alfred W. Momerie, and by W. T. Harris, LL.D. Dr. Lyman Abbott on the fourth day presented the doctrine of the self-manifestation of God to all souls. On the eighth-day Rev. James W. Lee set forth a doctrine of Christ the Reason of the universe ; Bishop John J. Keane reviewed the incarnation idea in history and in Christ ; Rev. Julian K. Smyth spoke on the incarnation of God in Christ ; and Bishop T. W. Dudley elaborately argued the unqualified deity of Christ.