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The Fundamentals. 2. The majority of those who struggle to stand here find it impossible to do so, and give themselves up to the current. There is intellectual consistency in the lofty church doctrine of iiispiration. There may be intellectual consistency in the doctrine that all things have had a natural origin and history, under the general providence of God, as distinguished from His supernatural revelation of Himself through holy men, and especially through His co-equal Son, so that the Bible is as little supernatural as the “Imitation of Christ” or the “Pil grim’s Progress.” But there is no position of intellectual con sistency between these two, and the great mass of those who try to pause at various points along the descent are swept down with the current. The natural view of the Scriptures is a sea which has been rising higher for three-quarters of a century. Many Christians bid it welcome to pour lightly over the walls which the faith of the church has always set up against it, in the expectation that it will prove a healthful and helpful stream. It is already a cataract, uprooting, destroying, and slaying. APPENDIX. Those who wish to study these fallacies further are advised to read the following books: ORR. “The Problem of the Old Testament,” and “The Bible Under Fire.” MOLLER. “Are the Critics Right?” SCHMAUK “The Negative Criticism and the Old Testa-- ment.” CROSLEGH. “The Bible in the Light of Today.” VARIOUS AUTHORS. “Lex Mosaica.” GREEN. “The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch.” CHAMBERS. “Moses and His Recent Critics.” BLOMFIELD. “The Old Testament and the New Criticism.” RAVEN. “Old Testament Introduction.” SAYGE. “The Early History of the Hebrews.”
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