WORDS OF APPRECIATION Reference has been made from time to time to the many thousands of letters received from grateful recipients of T h e F u n d a m e n t a l s , who have written from all parts of the world. These communications have been carefully preserved. Many of them have been read by the “Two Christian Laymen,” whose hearts have been greatly encouraged thereby to the fur- ther prosecution of an enterprise which many believe will take rank as one of the greatest and most useful of the age. The following appreciative letter, from a missionary in British Columbia, is one of a vast number more or less similar: “Dear Sirs: I write to thank you for volumes I, II, III, and IV of T h e F u n d a m e n t a l s s o kindly mailed by you to my address and duly received by me, and read and re-read with much thanksgiving. Most unfortunately volumes I and II were lost in the burning of my house on the 7th of September, and I would deem it a great favor if you would replace them. Of all the five hundred dollars worth of books which constituted my little library and were burned, I miss the two little F u n d a m e n t a l s most. . . . “And now let me say how much I appreciate this Testimony move- ment which you have started. I amwith it heart and soul. I daily bless those two Christian laymen who have devoted their means to this holy and glorious enterprise. It is a well directed blow at the enemy. Hitherto the critics have had everything their own way. Fenced around with great learning and scholarship, ordinary men have shrunk from attempting any attack upon their position. We have been looking long to Christian scholarship to give us a lead, but its utterance was not only uncertain but tinged with compromise. I have no doubt there were thousands of men, like myself, grieved to the heart before the Lord because of the present-day tendency to do away with the inspired Word of God and the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. “I have been shut up here among these Indians for the past twenty- eight years with not a white neighbor within seventy miles of me, and have given much thought to these things. It seems to me we have shown too much deference to human scholarship and mere worldly 127
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