Excerpt from Logic of the Scriptures: Or Perfect Reason, Harmony and Consistency in Both the Old and the New Testaments

Within the nineteenth century there have been more improvements, inventions and discoveries than during any other century in the world's history. Indeed, it is surprising to notice the progress of the age in which we live, and it is so manifest that there are but few who do not see it. But in the midst of all the progress of the age there is another feature of the times, equally plain and noticeable, and that is that Christianity has made no advancement in the last century, or since the Wesleyan reformation. Theology has not moved an inch since the days of John Wesley, but infidelity has been moving from the time of Voltaire. Though Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and John Wesley and some others were great reformers, and in their day met the errors that most needed to be met, since they are gone infidelity runs with unusual speed and assails the Scriptures in various forms making new breaches in the wall of Jerusalem, - the doctrines of the Bible, the defenses of Christianity. They tell the world in their lectures that the Scriptures are not based oh reason, but if the Scriptures be received it must be by faith in them and in their Author, at the expense of the sacrifice of reason. These lectures are given as wide a circulation as possible, that the world at large may read them. A great portion of society do read them, and then attend church to learn whether there can be a successful refutation of the slander against the Bible, when it is called a book without reason.

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