178 REV. A. IRVING, D.SC., B.A., ON 
Newspaper in an article in defence of the thesis—* The Genesis 
Account of the Creation not inconsistent with the Geological 
tecord.”* 
I am glad to know that my previous paper has been found 
both interesting and useful to many students (pace Professor 
Driver, of Oxford, and the feeble “ Vaticanism ” of Professor 
Sollas in the Guardian). In addition to what has appeared in 
print, I have a collection of private letters, some from entire 
strangers, expressing their appreciation of the line which I had 
taken and of the arguments of my paper,t which were partly 
repeated in controversy. 
Among matters which, since my paper was read, have come 
under my notice, I feel bound to express my warmest appreci- 
ation of the paper read before the Church Congress by the 
Rev. G. T. Manley.f It was what might be expected from a 
man of Mr. Manley’s academical and intellectual antecedents, 
who had so completely riddled the so-called philosophy of 
Huxley and Spencer several years before.§ Especially valuable 
are the remarks in his paper on the value and importance of 
giving closer attention to “apparent discrepancies.” As he truly 
remarks,—“ An attitude of inquiry is far different from the 
undesirable frame of mind, which looks upon the reconciliation 
of science with the Bible as a Chinese puzzle, and twists and 
forces them into agreement by some Ingenious process : 
Current Science is only the teacher of its own generation, the 
Bible is the teacher of all the ages.”|| <A fitting rebuke that to 
the rather flippant sneers of the Oxford Professor of Geology 
about “reconcilers.”| Professor Sollas (the recent President of 
the Geological Society) should know that quwubbling does not 
* See C.F. Newspaper, Oct. 2nd, 1908. 
+ These include such men as the Dean of Lincoln, the Headmaster of 
Eton, F. Hugh Capron (author of The Conflict of Truth), Rev. Arthur 
Carr, the Headmaster of Wellington, along with others, entire strangers 
to me ; one long letter to that effect reaching me from a missionary in 
far distant Matabeleland, whose mind seemed relieved on finding the 
strong negations of the late Bishop Hicks (scientist as he was) combated 
in the pages of the Guardian. To one writer, Rev. A. J. 5. Downer, 
T am much indebted. 
{ Guardian, Oct. 9th, 1907. Mr. Manley, as a Senior Wrangler and 
Fellow of his College, shows a more capable grasp of the scientific 
aspect of the “Genesis” question than does the learned and distinguished 
Hebraist of Oxford, to whom I shall have to refer in the sequel. 
§ See Christian Apologetics, London (John Murray), 1903. 
|| Guardian, loe. cit. 
| Guardian, Nov. 6th, 1907. 
