The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-01
By the Rev Thomas B. Gregory, in the New York American.

Dy the EeF- 1nomaS B. Gregory, in the New York American.
 THE English Church Congress. just I0 closed in London. devoted most
 Of it's time to the discussion of the question; What Is the Bibleg'
 The discussion was opened by Dr. Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, in a way to indicate that the members of the congress were to feel free to speak their minds without let or hindrance.
 Taking the cue as laid down by the bishop the Rev. Alexander Kirkpatrick, professor of Hebrew at Cambridge and Canon of Ely. boldly declared that all parts of the Bible were not to be regarded as being of equal value.
 The Rev. Edgar Gibson, prebendary of Wells and chaplain in ordinary to the king. held that there was a core of truth in the Bible around which there had been built up great deal which was not true.
 Sir Andrew Short, master at Harrow, gave 1t as his opinon that the majority of teachers in the weekday schools were insincere with their Biblical classes, teaching that which was unwholesome and scientifically incorrect. thus preparing the way for disbelief in later years.
 The Rev. Dr. King did not hesitate to say that in his opinion the Bible could no longer be considered the standard of mor- als, and, to the amazement of many, Dr. TFSing's radical utterance was supported by pr. Alexander. Bishop of Derby. who declared that all revelation is progression and that the idea of closed Bible is pre- posterous.
 To realize what this means 1t Is simply necessary to remember that Bishop Col enso has been dead only nineteen years,
 The good Bishop of Natal was thrown out of his see and socially ostracized for having written his "Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua a work so mildly crit ical of the scriptures that, were it pub lished today, it would create not so much as ripple upon the theological waters.
 The writer of this article has no seven league boots," and cannot, therefore, keep up with the theological advance; but he would modestly offer the opinion that the higher criticism has gone aboutNfar enough in it's onslaughts upon the bible.
 Action and reaction, the physical phil osophers tell us, are equal and in the light of this dictum we may be the better prepared to size up the present theologi- cal situation. The faction" in the prem ises Is the preposterous nonsense of the early times, with its cry of '1nfallibility'' and "inerrancy," with it's silly proposi- tion that the Bible from Genesis to Reve- lations, was especially prepared by the Almighty and let down by the silken string to the children of men,
 We began about hundred years ago to learn that this proposition would not work; that the 'infallible" and liner rant slogan was false. and that it was incumbent upon us to form a more scien- ti1c idea of the 'book of books"
 We had no sooner set about our new task than we began to grow reckless, and before long 1t became fashionable not only in the circles of the unfaithfu, not only in the councils of the Lords anoint- ed, to speak of the Bible in terms that were far from complimentary.
 That the reaction has gone far enough is proved by the conclusions reached during the English Church Con- gress, When the leading lights in the English church give 1t as their opinion