MR. TAYLOR' S THIRD REPLY. 279 



Error — perisbable. Truth only, endiiring. 



Look to it, ye Christian Pharisees, lest in tithing mint, and 

 more than tithing days^ ye ^'be likened unto the foolish man, 

 who built his house upon the sand !" and lest, however admired 

 your edifice, '^great shall be the fall of it!" Though ye 

 would build ^^a tower whose top might reach unto Jieaven/' 

 call to mind how in ancient legend, " The Lord came down to 

 see the tower which the 'children of Men' builded," and they 

 were scattered in confusion !* Though ye weekly point to 

 your gilded temple, and so complacently repeat to your 

 credulous and uninquiring hearers, "See what manner of 

 8tones, and what buildings are here!" and "how adorned with 

 goodly stones and gifts !" remember that again it was written 

 of old — "the days will come, in the which there shall not be 

 left one stone upon another, that shall not he throivn down /" 

 For the weapons of our warfare are mighty to the pulling down 

 of the strong-holds of antiquated error, however firmly estab- 

 lislied, however cunningly fortified, by whatever numbers of 

 the wise, the powerfui, and the illustrious, stubbornly defended. 



TRUTH ONLY IS IMMORTAL ! 



Two personal suggestions demand a moment' s attention 

 before I lay down my pen. f In concluding vay last Reply, I 



fifth, or the eighth, as against ihQfoiirth. ' But lie does specify them 

 elsewhere,' it may be said. I answer yes, the fifth and eighth (per- 

 haps the first and tenth also) ; but nowhere the second." — As though 

 the ** second" could be violated, if the *' first" were obeyed ! (Mark xii. 

 29, 32.) He who requires a clearer prohibition of idolatry than that 

 in Acts XV. 20, needs not appeal to the " second comraandment." Jlis 

 conscience cannot be enlightened by the Decalogue ! 



* "The Most High dwelletk not in templas made wiik hands; as 

 saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool : 

 what house Tvill ye build me ? saith the Lord ; or what is the place of 

 my rest?" {Acts vii. 48, 49.) 



f A minor point occurs, which should perhaps receive a passing 



