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Dr. Gray that you obtained the quotation from me and X am fully prepared to express without reservation my conviction that he made exactly that statement in print.’ “ I regret that the pamphlet has not been found. As you seem to indicate, you could make just that statement I attribute to you, but would want to interpret and explain what was essentially true, what is true as a record but false as a statement of fact, etc. ’ “ I am sorry if you have suffered embarrassment. Most of us know your-position well enough not to charge you with defection from the army of which you have long been a leader. However, your letter will appear in an early issue of the ‘Chimes.’ “ Yours sincerely, ‘ 1,'i “ Robert Freeman.’’ (H I) “ February 20, 1924. “ Rev. Robert Freeman, D. D., Pasadena, Calif. “ Dear Dr. Freeman: “ I thank you for yours of February 13, and shall await with interest a copy of the iChimes’ containing my letter to you. “ I note that your, friend, the Rev. Joseph A. Stevenson, D. D., asserts that I made the statement which you quote and I do not question that he believes he is uttering the truth, but he is in error nevertheless. For me to make such a statement would be to contradict all that my Chris tian life and testimony have stood for for nearly half a century. “ And may I with sincere kindness correct a statement of your own? After regretting that the pamphlet to which Dr. Stevenson refers has not been found, you add: ‘As you seem to indicate, you could make just that statement I attribute to you, but would want to interpret and explain what was essentially true, etc.’ “ No, my dear brother, I do not indicate that I could make the statement you attribute to me, but the very opposite. That is to say, the fifteen words which you quote as my words are so wrested from their context as to convey the very opposite meaning which my complete statement car ried, as to my belief in the infallibility of the Scripture as a divine record. No honest man who was at the same time fairly intelligent, would so abuse the liberty of a quotation. “Understand please, that I am reflecting neither upon you nor Dr. Stevenson, as I do not yet know the source of his so-called quotation. He may have been misled, and in turn misled you, and until I have reason to believe otherwise, I shall certainly hold him innocent. “ With renewed appreciation of your prompt reply, I remain “ Sincerely yours, “ James M. Gray.” (IV ) March 13, 1924. “ I have the copies of ‘Pasadena Chimes’ of January 31 in which you published my letter referring to the misquota tion of my words about the Bible in your edition of June 4, 1923. But I observe that you also published your reply to me of February 13, in which you include part of a letter to you from the Rev. Joseph A. Stevenson, D. D. To this I do not object, but I feel that readers of ‘Pasadena Chimes’ to whom I am unknown, may consider that Dr. Stevenson’s letter neutralizes to some extent my disclaimer of the mis quotation of June 4. “ Therefore, I wrote you another letter, dated February 20, in which, while not impugning the sincerity of Dr. Stevenson, I said he was in error. In the same communica tion, I called your attention to a rather serious error in your own letter to me of February 13. For these reasons, Dr. Freeman, I do not think the incident can be closed satis factorily until you have published my second letter, that of February 20. “Hoping that for the sake of the truth you may find it convenient to do this, which I also will do in the Moody Bible Institute Monthly, I remain “ Sincerely yours, “ James M. Gray.” “ Rev. Robert Freeman, D. D., Pastor Presbyterian Church, Pasadena, Calif. “ Dear Dr. Freeman:
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