ake to say
that if you believe one part of the Bible you must believe all. Some
of the thirty-nine books may be inspired, others not; or there may be
degrees of inspiration."

Q. Do you believe that God commanded the soldiers to kill the children
and the married women and save for themselves the maidens, as recorded
in Numbers 31:2? Do you believe that God upheld slavery? Do you
believe that God upheld polygamy? A. "The Bible may be wrong in some
statements. God and right can not be wrong. We must not exalt the
Bible above God. It may be that we have claimed too much for the
Bible, and thereby given not a little occasion for such men as Mr.
Ingersoll to appear at the other extreme, denying too much."

Q. What then shall be done? A. "We must take a middle ground. It is
not necessary to believe that the bears devoured the forty-two
children, nor that Jonah was swallowed by the whale."

THIRD, REV. DR. KOHLER.

Question. What is your opinion about the Old Testament? Answer. "I
will not make futile attempts of artificially interpreting the letter
of the Bible so as to make it reflect the philosophical, moral and
scientific views of our time. The Bible is a sacred record of
humanity's childhood."

Q. Are you an orthodox Christian? A. "No. Orthodoxy, with its face
turned backward to a ruined temple or a dead Messiah, is fast becoming
like Lot's wife, a pillar of salt."

Q. Do you really believe the Old Testament was inspired? A. "I
greatly acknowledge our indebtedness to men like Voltaire and Thomas
Paine, whose bold denial and cutting wit were so instrumental in
bringing about this glorious era of freedom, so congenial and blissful,
particularly to the long-abused Jewish race."

Q. Do you believe in the inspiration of the Bible? A. "Of course
there is a destructive ax needed to strike down the old building in
order to make room for the grander new. The divine origin claimed by
the Hebrews for their national literature was claimed by all nations
for their old records and laws as preserved by the priesthood. As
Moses--the Hebrew law giver, is represented as having received the law
from God on the holy mountains, so is Zoroaster, the Persian, Manu, the
Hindoo, Minos, the Cretan, Lycurgus, the Spartan, and Numa, the Roman."

Q. Do you believe all the stories in the Bible? A. "All that can and
must be said against them is that they have been too long retained
around the arms and limbs of g