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Anti-Nunquam , by Dr. Warschauer, with prefatory note by J. Estlin Carpenter, is considered by many Churchmen to be an admirable refutation of God and My Neighbour . I have seldom read anything less likely to convince. Sentence after sentence is open to the gravest exception.

See Appendix.

E.g. , in the Nineteenth Century and After , see the article on “The Present Position of Religious Apologetics,” appearing in the issue for October, 1903; or on “Freethought in the Church of England” in the issues for September and December, 1904. The answers in the same journal are most unsatisfactory, and only serve to show how very little, apparently, can be said in reply.

Although the Church has ever been charitable, she has made no effort to cure poverty. She is, she must be, the ally of those to whom she chiefly owes her power and prestige. Jeremy Taylor is not the only eminent divine who has systematically courted the favour of the influential and rich.

Essay on “Possibilities and Impossibilities,” appearing in the Agnostic Annual for 1892.

Paley’s Evidences—Preparatory Considerations .

In his book, The Service of Man .

In his notable oration upon the apparitions of Llanthony.

See p. 132 of An Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures , by the Right Rev. W. Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon.

See p. 222 of Some Elements of Religion , Liddon.

See p. 51 of An Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures .

Extract from a sermon preached in St. Paul’s, Finsbury, on November 23rd, 1904.

This explanation has been given by the Rev. Samuel Cox, and it is quoted with approval by the Bishop of London on p. 63 of his little work, Old Testament Difficulties (S.P.C.K.).

See p. 41 of Old Testament Difficulties .

Article “Genesis.”

Miraculum means merely a wonderful thing. It is certainly a proper translation of σημεῖα (signs) and τέρατα (wonders), as used by New Testament writers.

By the author of Supernatural Religion . (Longmans, Green, and Co.; 1889.)

See Encyclopædia Biblica , article “Gospels,” paragraph 138 ( e ).

See article “Paul” in the Encyclopædia Biblica . Four of the Pauline Epistles are, however, pretty generally accepted. Five are hotly disputed; Professor Loofs, for example, rejects them.

See article “Epistolary Literature” in the Encyclopædia Biblica .

Swedenborgians (the New Jerusalem Church) are to be found scattered throughout almost every part of Christendom. In England, principally in Lancashire and Yorkshire, there are seventy-five societies with 6,063 registered members.

Eight persons in all testify to the apparition of the Virgin Mary in the Abbot’s meadow at Llanthony on September 15th, 1880.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.

See p. 31 of What is Christianity? (Williams & Norgate, 1904).

See, for instance, art. “Moses,” Encyclopædia Biblica .

Quoted from a sermon by the Bishop of London in Fulham parish, Christmas Day, 1904. Compare this with Dr. Kirkpatrick’s remark, p. 2 of his book, The Divine Library of the Old Testament : “It is true that the critical investigation of the Bible raises not a few questions of grave difficulty.”

“The adjective ‘higher’ (the sense of which is often misunderstood) has reference simply to the higher and more difficult class of problems, with which, as opposed to textual criticism, the ‘higher’ criticism has to deal” (see Preface to The Higher Criticism , being three papers by S. R. Driver, D.D., and A. F. Kirkpatrick, D.D.).

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Exodus xxxi. 18 and xxxii. 16. Or, to be precise, these having been broken and their fragments considered of no value at the time, the duplicates carefully prepared and inscribed to the dictation of God Himself (Exodus xxxix.).

Believed to date from about 853 B.C. The inscription records the victories of King Mesha over the Israelites.

Erected in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes, 106 B.C. Famous as having furnished the first key for the interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Encyclopædia Biblica , art. “Messiah,” p. 3058, par. 2.

Ibid , p. 3063, par 10.

In Studies in the Character of Christ , by Rev. C. H. Robinson, Hon. Canon of Ripon and Editorial Secretary to the S.P.G.

Enc. Bib. , art. “Nativity,” par. 10, 11, 12.

The late Rev. A. B. Bruce, D.D., Professor of Apologetics and New Testament Exegesis, Free Church College, Glasgow.

See Enc. Bib. , art. “Gospels,” par. 139.

See Enc. Bib. , art. “Gospels,” par. 138, where the reasons for this conclusion are explained. See also par. 108.

Author of various theological works, Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, 1876; Select Preacher, Oxford, 1877.

The interpolation in the last chapter of St. Mark goes back far into the second century. It is important to bear in mind that none of the dates given by Dr. Harnack and other authorities applies to the Gospels exactly as we now have them. Accounts of miracles have been added subsequently!

Enc. Bib. , art. “Lazarus.”

Ibid , art. “Gospels,” par. 147.

W. C. van Manen, D.D., Professor of Old-Christian Literature and New Testament Exegesis, Leyden.

Spoken in an address to the St. Paul’s Lecture Society, at the opening of a new session in 1904.

The italics in these quotations from Dr. Harnack are mine.

Fully reported in the Methodist Times .

The Greek version, known as the Septuagint (LXX.), made in Egypt in the third and second centuries B.C. for the use of the numerous body of Greek-speaking Jews and proselytes in that country.

A Greek document which is supposed to have existed and then to have been entirely lost (imagine God’s Word lost !), and to contain some of the matter related by St. Matthew and St. Luke, while omitted by St. Mark. N.B. —While the evangelist St. Mark is relegated to the position of a translator only, St. Matthew and St. Luke are taken by orthodox theologians to be mere copyists of St. Mark and a “lost” document!