52 COXSTANXE L. MAYNARD ON 



Univereal Geometrician, Whose divine compass has measured all 

 things. I prefer that as explanation of the logarithmic curve of 

 the nautilus and the garden spiders, to the worm screwing up the 

 tip of its tail. 



As to being gentle with the rising generation . . . the Bible that 

 was good enough for me in the darkest hour of my life, they in 

 their hour of need will find equally good. God has spoken, and 

 He asks to be believed. 



I would close in the words of our late learned President, the Earl 

 of Halsbury : "I don't like the modern criticism," said Lord 

 Halsbury, " and I will not admit to being influenced by it in the 

 least. To me the Bible is inspired, and if I believed anything 

 else. I should die a miserable man." 



Miss Maynaed, in reply, said : The reception of my paper has 

 been very kind- 



The imprecatory Psalms have been mentioned, but not, I think, 

 explained. There are two lessons our Divine Creator sets before 

 man to learn — to hate sin, and to love the sinner. In dealing with 

 immaturity, which would be taught first ? To a young child, to 

 love means both to caress and to imitate, and this is very unsafe. 

 The wise plan is to begin with the hatred of sin and get that firmly 

 established, and this to an immature mind means condemnation of 

 the man who sins. That is a phase which cannot be helped. Only 

 Christ can fully separate between man and sin, which He makes 

 as clear as the separation between man and disease. Then comes 

 in the reign of the Gospel, with the preaching of unending, unwearied 

 love toward the sinner. In the imprecatory Psalms you see half 

 the lesson being well learned. The hatred of sin is complete, the 

 love to the sinner is still hidden in the future. 



The question of pseudonymity was touched upon, and it was 

 argued that it is not in human nature to give away magnificent 

 productions of the spirit and the pen, and sign them with another 

 man's name. This was adduced to cover the authorship of Deu- 

 teronomy, Isaiah, from the 40th chapter onward, and the majority 

 of the Psalms- Now it may seem strange, but this was not the 

 feeling of antiquity, and authors delighted in signing their work 

 by the name of the great master they were following. I believe 

 there are more than twenty spurious " Dialogues of Plato," 

 borrowing the names of the speakers and all else, and the treatises 

 signed Galen may be counted by the hundred. This surely may 

 explain in part at least the authorship of the Pentateuch. 



It was brought forward that our Lord during His Temptation 

 quoted no other book but Deuteronomy-, and that this was a guarantee 

 of its Inspiration. Most certainly it is. but that does not include 

 the date- There it stands, a part of our Bible for ever, a beautiful 



