"To the Editor of the "NontH-CiiNa DAILY News.
Sin—Your correspondent, A. Home, has expended a lot of verbal jon but the unchanged. Had. he letter before' sending it in, little charity" would have caused change his style of writing in unprejudiced investigation" would have impelled him to tear up the letter rather than advance his biassed arguments, When I first wrote, it was merely. to ascertain if the public were terested in what was happening in the town and whether the M.W.L. jeould be brought to change their policy. Mr. I "Mason's letter hax supplied 2 partial answer and thank him.
In deference to the wish expressed. in your footnote of last Friday, 1 shall refrain from write the sad and sor jeration. They are scarcely sane. As regards the presence of flaws, however, there is no reason to <up-pose that the text has. wholly caped errors in the course of transmission, specially where numbers land names are concerned, but. the margin of possible error in these respects is quite insufficient to shake the trustworthiness of the records, still less to invalidate the authority of their teaching. If after ma a full allowance for such posit ties a residuum of unexplained cliff culties still remains, that again mas well be left in abeyance, with altering our estimate of the whole. It is quite legitimate to assume, the face of the overwhelming evidlence for the divine character of the writings from a thousand other Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.