rdless of their scientific learning, cling to these old
myths, professing to believe them, _well knowing what must follow with
their fall_. The following, though written some years ago, will serve to
illustrate this style of reasoning.

The Bishop of Manchester (England) writing in the "Manchester Examiner
and Times," said:

"The very _foundation of our faith_, the very _basis of our
hopes_, the very nearest and dearest of our consolations are
taken from us, _when one line of that sacred volume, on which
we base everything, is declared to be untruthful and
untrustworthy_."

The "English Churchman," speaking of clergymen who have "_doubts_,"
said, that any who are not throughly persuaded "_that the Scriptures
cannot in any particular be untrue_," should leave the Church.

The Rev. E. Garbett, M. A., in a sermon preached before the University
of Oxford, speaking of the "_historical truth_" of the Bible, said:

"It is the clear teaching of those doctrinal formularies, to
which we of the Church of England have expressed our solemn
assent, _and no honest interpretation of her language can get
rid of it_."

And that:

"In all consistent reason, _we must accept the whole of the
inspired autographs, or reject the whole_."

Dr. Baylee, Principal of a theological university--_St. Aiden's
College_--at Birkenhead, England, and author of a "Manual," called
Baylee's "_Verbal Inspiration_," written "_chiefly for the youths of St.
Aiden's College_," makes use of the following words, in that work:

"_The whole Bible_, as a revelation, is a declaration of the
mind of God towards his creatures on all the subjects of which
the Bible treats."

"_The Bible is God's word_, in the same sense as if he had
made use of no human agent, but had _Himself spoken it_."

"The Bible cannot be less than verbally inspired. _Every word,
every syllable, every letter_, is just what it would be, had
God spoken from heaven without any human intervention."

"Every scientific statement is infallibly correct, all its
history and narrations of every kind, _are without any
inaccuracy_."[18:1]

A whole volume might be filled with such quotations, not only from
religious works and journals published in England, but from those
published in the United States of America.[18:2]

FOOTNOTES:

[1:1] The idea that the sun, moon and stars were _s