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work among us in the interest of a reunited 

 Christendom, lias beep fee deeper a nd mora 



intelligent study of the Holy Scriptuivs. 

 There is no more favorite method with un- 

 belief, when it would discredit the religion 

 of Jesus Christ, than to point out how its 

 disciples, differing as they do concerning 

 questions which are, or which have been, 

 claimed to be of the most vital importance, 

 have been wont to appeal to the same Book, 

 and often, strangely enough, to the same 

 words in that Book. That meagre and 

 superficial reading of the Sacred Writings 

 which has dealt with them as one would 

 deal with a fetish or a charm, — which has 

 led one, for instance, to submit the gravest 

 questions, in some moment of supreme per- 

 plexity, to the answer to be gotten out of 

 the Bible by opening the volume at random, 

 — this it must be owned, and that too often 

 by those .who ought to have been examples 

 in another and more excellent way, has 

 been a characteristic of men's use of Holy 

 Scripture in all circumstances, and in none 

 more frequently than in those which are 

 concerned with matters of theological or 

 ecclesiastical controversy. That the Bible 

 should be treated as literature ; that men 



