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 be included in that class. And so the same spirit reappears under the new name of "Higher Criticism."

At first the so-called "higher criticism" was mild and tentative. But a short time only has been necessary to disclose that in essence, spirit, argument, and conclusion, it is nothing other than the old-time infidelity of the Atheists, with whom it originated, clothed in a new vesture that it might appear respectable, and gain entrance into Christian lives.

The errors of the "higher criticism" originate in an absolutely wrong conception of the fundamental principles upon which the Word is written and of what it is intended to teach and to do, as well as of how it is to do it.

The divinity of the Word in no wise rests upon the validity of reputed, finite authorship. It proclaims its own authorship and penmen in sufficient particularity. "The Lord gave the Word: