THE WAVE OF SCEPTICISM
AND
THE ROCK OF TRUTH.
A REPLY TO
"SUPERNATURAL RELIGION: AN INQUIRY INTO THE
REALITY OF DIVINE REVELATION."
"Animus ad amplitudinem mysteriorum pro modulo suo dilatetur, non
mysteria ad angustias animi constringantur."—Lord Bacon.
London:
HODDER AND STOUGHTON,
27 & 31, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCLXXV.
CORRECTIONS.
Title-page. For anima, read animi.
Page iv. For Wann Warden, read Wann Wurden.
xii. For one allowed, read one version allowed.
28 line 3. For and that Paul, read and that as for Paul.
52 line 3. For first century, read second century.
77 For He suffered martyrdom on, read He suffered martyrdom,
it is said, on.
77 For in the amphitheatre at Antioch, read in the amphitheater,
not at Rome, but at Antioch.
78 line 4. For letters, read versions.
109 line 8 from bottom. For whoever, read whomsoever.
123 line 7. For dead, read read.
177 line 7. For at the name of Jesus, read in the name of
Jesus.
"Every wave which beats against the rock of eternaltruth seems to rise out of the trough caused by somereceding wave, and raises its threatening crest as if itwould wash away the rock.
"It is of the nature of truth, that the more it is testedthe more sure it becomes under the trial. These attacksof opponents are among the means whereby fresh evidencesof the certitude of the Gospels are called out."
Translator of Tischendorf's
Wann Wurden Unsere Evangelien Verfasst.
This volume is an amplified and expandedessay read before the members of the YoungMen's Society in connection with Park Church,Highbury, on the evening of the 2nd of November,1874. The original purpose of theauthor was to indicate to the associates ofthat Christian institution how the influence ofGerman anti-Christian literature, made plain toEnglish readers by such books as the one underreview, might be withstood and neutralised, andto supply an antidote to the poisonous insinuationsrespecting Christianity which many of theperiodicals of the day disseminate in noticingworks of this character. Those that are not[vi]professedly hostile to religion have a way oftreating Truth and Error as if nothing hadbeen proved, and as if the question were quitean open one whether Divine Revelation is, oris not, a reality. The present design of theauthor has a wider range than he first intended.He desires to induce, not only young men, butthose nearer his own age, and placed, much ashimself, in the great centres of business,