To the-Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—I am grateful for the opportunity which ''Agnostic's"' letter affords me of making some things.a little clearer. I expected to stand up to a few like his when I first wrote, and am prepared for all the "wet towels" he can land.
Most of our friend's letter is taken up with the recital of certain attempts in history to fix the date which collapsed in egregious failure. But what would "Agnostic" say of a man who, because the history say, of medicine, shows that many quacks have always been in practice, would refuse to place himself in the skilled hands of a modern specialist. He can tell us (what we all knew) of the few who have made announcements of Christ's Coming on a certain date without Scriptural support, but can he name any of the great exegetical specialists as having made such mistakes—men like Luther, Wesley, Toplady, Calvin, and many others of more modern date. He is probably unaware that Dr. Gratton Guinness, who first named the date 1923 as an extreme probability, was both an exegete and an astronomer' of international reputation, and that the Royal Astronomical Society granted him F. R. A. S. for astronomical discoveries that could never have been made at all except for clues pro-
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