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same place, performed the unusual feat of leaving 

 the faith of o Ul -fashioned Christians undisturbed. 



Yet many things have happened in the inter- 

 vening thirty-one years. The Bampton lecturer 

 of 18.">9 had to grapple only with the infant 

 Hercules of historical criticism; and he is now a 

 full-grown athlete, bearing on his shoulders the 

 -polls of all the lions that have stood in his path. 

 Surely a martyr's courage, as well as a mart\r- 

 faith, is needed by any one who, at this time, is 

 prepared to stand by the following plea for the 

 veracity of the Pentateuch : 



Adam, according to the Hebrew original, was for 'Jl-'J years 



contemporary with Methuselah, who conversed for a hundred 



\vith Sin-in. Shein was for fifty years contemporary with 



, who probably saw Jochebed, Moses's mother. Tlm>, 



I might by oral tradition have obtained the history of 



Abraham, and even of the Deluge, at third hand : and that of 



the Temptation and the Fall at fifth hand. . . . 



It' it be granted as it seems to be that tin- great and stirring 

 ti in a nation's life will, under ordinary circumstance-. he 

 remembered (apart from all written memorials) for the space 

 of 150 years, being banded down through five generations, it 

 must bo allowed (even on mere human grounds) tbat the 

 account which Moses gives of the, Temptation and the Kail is \o 

 b.- ilrp.-inl.-d upnn, if it passed through no more than four hands 

 bvUcen him and Adam. 1 



It "the trustworthiness of our Lord Jesus 



( 'hi ist is t<> stand or fall with the belief in the 



i' ii transmutation of the chemical components 



o| a u.. man's body into sodium chloride, or on the 



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