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our reason cannot attain. II follows
that the Bible has brought a very great
consolation 10 mankind. All are apfe
to obey: whereas, there are but very
few, compared with the aggregate on
humanity. who can acquire the naoit
Of virtue under the maiden guidance OF
reason. (Dr. whitford said, Sucn men
are, unfortunately, scarce. Tnus, IL
we had not the testimony OF scripture,
we should doubt of the salvation OF
nearly all men. We may conclude,
therefore, that the whole Divine law,
as taught by Scripture. has come down
to us interrupted. The main
facts of Christs life and passion were
Immediately spread abroad through the
whole Roman empire. 1t Is. therefore
scarcely credible. unless nearly every
body consented thereto. which we can
not suppose, mat successive genera
lions have handed down the broad OUT
line of the Gospel narrative otherwise
than they have received IL. Now. as In
the whole course of my investigation,
found nothing taught expressly oy
Scripture which does not agree WIN
our understanding. or which is repug-
nant thereto, and as / saw that the
prophets taught nothing which Is not
very simple. and easily to be grasped
by all. and further, that they cloaUned
their teaching in the style and confined
1T with the reasons which would most
deeply move the mind of the masses 10
devotion toward God, 1 became thor
oughly convinced that the Bible leaves
reason absolutely free; that 1t has
nothing &n common with philosophy; In
fact, that Revelation and philosophy
stand on totally different footings
Pages 19S, 173 and 3. volume i, works
of Spinoza," Bohn's Philosophical Id
brary.
He names Draper; hear him: THE
Pentateuch is affirmed to have been
written by Moses, under the influence
of Divine inspiration. Considered thus,
as a record vouchsafed and dictated by
the Almighty, 1t commands not only
scientific but universal consent. 'What
Is truth? was The passionate demand
of a Roman procurator on one OF the
most momentous occasions in history.
And the Divine Person who stood be-
fore him, to whom this interrogation
was addressed made no reply, unless,
indeed, silence contained the reply"
In chapter of his History of the Con-
flict Between Science and Religion"
DIR Whftford names Servitus. Now.
everybody knows that the execution OF
a man for heresy was long ago impos-
eible. But in CHASING Servetus.
Christian man always, with Voltaire,
and Tom Paine. and Ingersoll. and him
self, Dr. Whitford honors himself false
ly. Serveitus is the farthest possible re-
moved from such company.
/ repeat again, the great names, by
ments of human achievement are on
the side of Christianity. Napoleon
said:
1.-The Hottest intellecte since the ad-
vent of Christianity have had faith, a
practical faith, in the doctrines of the
Gospel; Descartes and Newton, Lieb-
rity and Pascal, Racine and Corneille,
Charlemagne and Louis XIV"
Gladstone says: Most men at the
head of great movements are Christian
men,"
DeQuincey said: MY faith is, though
"a great man may. by a rare possibility
be an infidel, an intellect of the highest
order must build ON Christianity"
One more. Hear Sir John William
Dawson:
1.-The experience of so years and ac-
quaintance of very many scientific men
of different types in different countries,
enables me to say that very many Of
the most distinguished men We're
Christians, and / know many others.
who, If not Christians, may be said to
be not far from the Kingdom of God.
The utterances Of a few popular men
should not be taken as expressing the
views of the whole class. The best and
most scientific men have all along been
devoted Christians. and Christianity
has all along helped to make them
what they are"