He tells a good story about Huxley and Herbert Spencer. They were airing their windy unbelief in the Athenaeum Club and "reviling Holy Writ.' Dr. Ginsburg, the great Hebrew scholar, overheard them, and said to them, he would "give them a week to find anything finer than Psalm XXIII." They had to admit, that they could not, and they admitted handsomely that they thought the translators of the "Great Bible" inspired. Here is a lesson for a good many people. Have you sufficient interest in the Psalms to care what anybody thinks about them? If not, why not? Hav'nt you a soul as well as Lord fisher. What do you feed it on? The share-list? the racing calendar? Is there no interest in you for the things of the spirit as there was in this man? If not, why not? God and his revelation to the soul of man in the Bible and in the Gospel was a great thing to him. Why not to you, who spend the whole of your time in business and pleasure of a poor unsatisfying sort?
Lord Fisher has a quaint comment on that passage in the prophet Ezekiel about the three men, "Noah, Daniel and Job." He says, John Wesley, Jeremy Taylor and Robertson of Brighton were his three holy men, and then he adds quaintly, "Isn't it odd that each has a nagging wife?" Now have
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