CHAPTER VII. A PERSONAL TESTIMONY. BY HOWARD A. KELLY, M. D.
(To those who have believed that faith in the Bible and the God of the Bible does not harmonize with the modem scien tific spirit the following testimony from a distinguished physi cian and surgeon should be of great value. The Editor of Appleton’s Magazine says of Dr. Kelly: “Dr. Howard Kelly, of Baltimore, holds a position almost unique in his profession. With academic, professional, and honorary degrees from the Universities of Pennsylvania, Washington and Lee, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, his rank as a scholar is clearly recognized. For some twenty years Pro fessor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins Univer sity, his place as a worker and teacher in the applied science of his profession has been beyond question the highest in Amer ica and Europe. A t least a dozen learned societies in England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria, France and the United States have welcomed him to membership as a master in his specialty in surgery. Finally, his published works have caused him to be reckoned the most eminent of all authorities in his own field.”) I have, within the past twenty years of my life, come out of uncertainty and doubt into a faith which is an absolute dominating conviction of the truth and about which I have not a shadow of doubt. I have been intimately associated with eminent scientific workers; have heard them discuss the pro- foundest questions; have myself engaged in scientific work, and so know the value of such opinions. I was once profound ly disturbed in the traditional faith in which I have been brought up—that of a Protestant Episcopalian—by inroads which were made upon the book of Genesis by the higher critics. I could not then gainsay them, not knowing Hebrew 123
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