The strangeness of the omission disappears when one reads the first "Great changes have taken place in belief", says the writer as he opens up his chapter on Apologetics Old and "Historic Christianity" he fountain from which each might drink according to his needs, but rather as if it were a reservoir which must be preserved from the slightest puncture lest all its contens should leak away." So Mark Hopkins' "Evidences" are discarded and of course, Paley's works, Butter's Analogy, and the thousands of books that prove the divi "authority of the Chris Scriptures." Our author concludes}
"Te is becoming, more and more lent to thoughtful Christ that the arguments upon sider apologists placed chief 1 have lost for the' modern mind their convincing power. This is due in the fain to two things. In the first place the "older apologists.
19 be to defend fof traditional teaching Miracle, not to be ne cepted and fended, but more particularly Principle means by which the remainder proved divine and true. ft is because Cheatanity wan to be elreuinstances that modern trid mo longer take any interest in its Arguments."
We find few if any quotations from the Bible, but he breathes out threatening and slaughter miracles and creeds; and so zealous} is he withal, to disprove the Old Testament, that he actually mising terprets the texts, On pages 122 he says:—
"Again, the supposed book-revelation and church-revelation are easily seen by the eritially-minded to Be Imerrant and in errant. the supposedly that in the time of David it was. faun to take a census of the but "that cept this, eat We also accept Fant the' statement made in another part of the Bible with regard to the Fame incident that it was Satan who fed David to number the people?"
Tt seems incredible that a Professor of Theology in Yale or any} other University should make a Jstntement so puerile and untrue to strengthen an_unreasonable tirade! against the infallible Word of God.
The rottenness of his jary and Jefune theology becomes thoroughly] offensive in his chapter on "The Person and Work of Christ." Instead of believing the plain statements of the Bible about the, Atonement by the shed blood of, Jerus Christ, he says:— so far as man is led by this inspiring moral "example Jecus" principle and heart his with: God,
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