IN reading an article by a physician—an open letter—to his friend and classmate, now a reverend in the M. E. Church, in which he brings an array of testimony to prove that the Biblical authors never wrote the Books credited to them,—with very few exceptions,—I was impressed more than ever with the attempts of human wisdom to rule out of its own consciousness everything pertaining to God and the divine.
He refers to the account of Noah and the ark, Adam and Eve, and what he is pleased to call the "fish story," in the same spirit of ridicule which, as the result of the growing skepticism of the age, has become so much a habit of late, and avers that he is at a loss to account for the infatuation of his good friend to preach "such stuff" as Gospel Truth.
It occurred to me to ask the doctor a question or two; Would you deny the fact of Mathematics because you could not master a given part of it? Does your inability to understand or account for the principle of Mathematics, or some particular part of its system destroy that principle, or in any sense change a single mathematical possibility? And yet is not this analogously what you wish your reverend friend to do? Because you are unable to see you conclude that no one else can see, or has any right to do so. If the 10,000,000 or more people who accept the truth of the Bible are deluded, what shall we say of the so-called science of medicine with its hosts of devotees in this country and the world! Has it solved the problem of life for the benefit of mankind?
