But "Protestant'' says in effect, How can we be sure of the Book's forgotten authors, its dead Jong ages, points, commas, allegories, symbols, its mysterious origins and vicissitudes of transmission? Well, the truth which the Book enshrines is called the Bread of Life. What will "Protestant" do when he gets his breakfast to-morrow morning? Will he ask, "Where did this porridge come from? How many hundred hands did it pass through, from the farmer to the table-boy? I demand their names and bon? fides: What strange field-denizens throve on and around the oats in that particular field where it was grown? Any poison in the milk? What sort of a roost did the Chinese chicken live in which grew that omelette, and did she ever eat cockroaches? And this bacon, certainly it looks and_ smells good: but being such a meticulous hypochondriac, I feel bound to ask, did it grow on a pig or a donkey?" Zat it, man, and see if you can't do a day's work on it. Does "Protestant" ever stop to ask such questions before feeding his body, if his food is present ably good? -Yet what rubbish-heaps of sophistry men will laboriously pile up between them selves and God in matters of the soul. Let 'Protestant' take the great, simple promises of the Book to the Throne of Grace in direct, persistent, lonely prayer (he will find a representative list of them in Part III of my Fresh Tidings"), and see if God wil] not answer him with heavenly gifts of wisdom, righteousness and redemption, that can sustain him unto eternal life. For a little while longer the Book's wondrous Message, and the guiding Spirit of its Eterna] Author, are offered free to doubting, sinning men, John. 6: 37, Luke 11: 13, but when the Great Day has dawned, not all the wealth in the universe will buy those gifts for those who reject them now, and despise the Giver.
I am, etc., C. H. Coates.
Kiukiang, Aug. 27, 1993.
To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—Mr. Coates uses my argument but Tefuses my support of his position, in the next sentence "entirely repudiates it." When I say in one sentence what he says in ten, he insinuates in a rather crooked fashion that it. is a piece of "Modernist propaganda." To affirm that St.
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