Excerpt from "What Is Truth?" "Where Is Truth?" He believed that there had never been _a time in which literature had come to such a low pass as in the first years of the reign of Edward VII. Why was that? It must be ascribed, to some extent, to the fact that their traditions had become shaken and their ideals lowered by the destructive criticism of the times. This gentleman has great opportunity - through his connection with this society - to give an utterance worthy of deep consideration on this question. It will be a bad day for us intellectually and morally if we permit this great heritage of the English people which under God raised her to the high position of the Victorian age to be cut to pieces under the pro fane penknife of the critic. If we do so we shall be responsible to God and may be painfully reminded of our breach of duty by it may be the earthquake, the sword, or the pestilence.now! He put it to the meeting that the theories of the Tiibingen school, as relating to the New Testament. In general, had been rejected, and as relating to the Gospels they had been practically reversed. He pleaded for critical modesty. There were critics to day who had so nearly boxed the compass of opinion that it was difficult for them to say anything with out contradicting what they had said before; but if an unhappy prophet or Psalmist seemed to contradict himself he became two, or even more than, two men. He would end by professing his profound belief that when the latest heresy, like the oldest, had sunk in the waters of oblivion, the Bible would still shine as the one unfailing celestial source of truth and peace and salvation for all the many millions of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.