hority, the only body divinely
protected from teaching error, is the Holy, Catholic and Roman Church.

"For the last time I have exercised my private judgment, as every man
must exercise it once, at least, and I now seek communion with this
largest and oldest body of Christians in the world. I have faced an
emergency fraught with vital interest to every thinking man. I have met
it; the rest is with my God. Praying that I might be adorned with the
splendours of holiness, and knowing that the prayer of him that humbleth
himself shall pierce the clouds, I took for my motto this sentence from
Huxley: 'Sit down before fact as a little child; be prepared to give up
every preconceived notion; follow humbly wherever and to whatever
abysses Nature leads.' Presently, God willing, I shall be in communion
with the See of Rome, where I feel that there is a future for me!"

The reader had been absently stabbing at his fish with an aimless fork.
He now laid down his paper to give the food his entire attention.

"You see," began Floud, "I say one brother is quite as extreme as the
other."

Father Riley smiled affably, and begged Whittaker to finish the letter.

"Your fish is fresh, dear man, but your news may be stale before we
reach it--so hasten now--I've a presentiment that our friend goes still
farther afield."

Whittaker abandoned his fish with a last thoughtful look, and resumed
the reading.

"May I conclude by reminding you that the issue between Christianity and
science falsely so called has never been enough simplified? Christianity
rests squarely on the Fall of man. Deny the truth of Genesis and the
whole edifice of our faith crumbles. If we be not under the curse of God
for Adam's sin, there was never a need for a Saviour, the Incarnation
and the Atonement become meaningless, and our Lord is reduced to the
status of a human teacher of a disputable philosophy--a peasant moralist
with certain delusions of grandeur--an agitator and heretic whom the
authorities of his time executed for stirring up the people. In short,
the divinity of Jesus must stand or fall with the divinity of the God of
Moses, and this in turn rests upon the historical truth of Genesis. If
the Fall of man be successfully disputed, the God of Moses becomes a
figment of the Jewish imagination--Jesus becomes man. And this is what
Science asserts, while we of the outer churches, through cowardice or
indolence--too often, alas! through our own skepticism--