Excerpt from On Holy Scripture and Criticism: Addresses and SermonsThe holy scriptures The sacred writings' - which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. - 2 timothy iii. I 5.The words which I have chosen for my text are appropriate to an occasion upon which the preacher has been invited to advocate the cause of the great British and Foreign Bible Society.Among the higher privileges which we in England enjoy, and of which, as we look back over the history of the past, we are most justly proud, stands that of the use of the Open Bible in the vernacular.It is difficult for us at the close of the nineteenth century to realise the intensity of the struggle upon which our Reformers entered, in order to obtain the free circulation of the Holy Scriptures in the language of the people. They were men full of zeal, learning.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.