The following from the news columns of a daily paper is of considerable interest as indicating the religious unrest of the present day, manifest in the ceaseless effort of humanity to free itself from the materialistic concept of the Scriptures which, for centuries, has been a stumbling-block to the spiritual advancement of the race.
[From the New York Tribune.]
Canon Henson, one of the chief dignitaries of Westminster Abbey and a select preacher of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, has raised a storm of criticism by an article in The Contemporary Review, in which he entered into the question of the future of the Bible. In this article Canon Henson impugns the inspiration of the Old Testament, referring to its "incredible, puerile, or demoralizing narratives," which are regarded by "untutored minds" as being a "pack of lies too gross for toleration."
