The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-17 00:00:00

Mr. Lowe does not appear to me to distinguish between the

variety of the sacred historians and their

infallibility

Paley, Sowndon, Blunt, and other apologi

Sco:t,

s and commenta.

tors, endeavour to reconcile with truth, apparent descrepini"eq

on different accounts of the same event given in the

and thus defend the writers against the attacks made

veracity. For example, each of tt

e four Evangelists, in giving
an account of the crucifixion of our Lord, records either what

he saw or heard, or what was reported to him as having occurred,

and, because each account differs in particulars, many persons

have essayed to throw discredit on those accounts, because,

forsooth, they do not agree in reporting the same partkulars.
The writers that I have quoted, as well as a host of others,
have endeavoured to prove that in such de4screpancies lies their

strong claim to our credence, because, they say, they do

exactly what ni

At /A) EX'

different points of ohs°.

of four men writing from four

thou'. collision betwee❑ them ;

they have written four different accounts of the one event,

In such instances the defence stands good, because it is for
ie veracity of the writers, and not for their infallibility, that

is made. But this valid defence of scriptural veracity cannot
used against Macnaught on Inspiration, inasmuch as that

volume upholds the veracity and the inspiration of Scripture.
Veracity may be an attribute of man and his writings—infalli-

!ity cannot. I will endeavour to illustrate my meaning in a

more simple form. Several officers of her Majesty's ships

have written accounts, at different times, of a great sea mon-
ster seen by them on the high seas, and supposed to be the
great sea serpent. Professor °Nen has not impugned the

veracity of these gentlemen ; on the contrary, he appears to
have paid great attention and deference to all that they have
related as having been seen by them ; and then he seems to
have reasoned upon his scientific knowledge, and came to the
conclusion that these gentlemen were deceived in what they
saw, or fancied they saw ; he had faith in their veracity, but
not in their knowledge of natural history, for had they known
at the time they wrote as much as he knew, they would have
come to his conclusion—that there could not exist such a crea.
ture as the great sea serpent, because, if such creatures exist,
they must also die ; if they die, their remains must surely be
cast up on some shore somewhere, and if only a fragment of a
bone or fossil, however small, were discovered, if it were only
a vertebra or a tooth, he (Professor Owen) would predicate
from it the size, form, and habits of the creature of which this
once had formed a part; and, because no such fossils or bones
have been found, he boldly denies the existence of the sea

erpent. I, therefore, say that it is quite possible that veracity,
For which Professor Oven gives credit to these observers,

may co-exist with fallibility, for which he also gives them

And now for my a priori way of dealing with the infallibility
of Scripture. There are a few books of the Bible called the

Apocrypha, which, I understand, means doubtful, and though

its inspiration is contended tor by some christians, it is,
nevertheless, stoutly denied by others. How comes it to pass
that fallible men—far were they Jews or Christians, fallible

men they were—could decide such questions, except by the
exercise of their private judgment, their reason, and their
And, if they were at liberty thus to deal with
one portion of the Bible, why then, I humbly ask, may the
same not be done with. another by others?

consciousness ?

Again, if the canonicity of any portion of the Scriptures
can be, and is considered, doubtful, I opine that 20 far forth,

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