overy, these considerations have been conclusive. But,
strange to say, here, as in so many other instances, this self-styled
orthodoxy--more orthodox than the Bible itself--directly contradicts
the very Scriptures which it professes to explain, and by sheer
misrepresentation succeeds in producing a needless and deplorable
collision between the statements of Scripture and those other mighty and
certain truths which have been revealed to science and humanity as their
glory and reward."

Still another acknowledgment was made in America through the
instrumentality of a divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church, whom
the present generation at least will hold in honour not only for his
scholarship but for his patriotism in the darkest hour of his country's
need--John McClintock. In the article on Language, in the Biblical
Cyclopaedia, edited by him and the Rev. Dr. Strong, which appeared
in 1873, the whole sacred theory is given up, and the scientific view
accepted.(421)

(421) For Kayser, see his work, Ueber die Ursprache, oder uber eine
Behauptung Mosis, dass alle Sprachen der Welt von einer einzigen der
Noahhischen abstammen, Erlangen, 1840; see especially pp. 5, 80, 95,
112. For Wiseman, see his Lectures on the Connection between Science and
Revealed Religion, London, 1836. For examples typical of very many in
this field, see the works of Pratt, 1856; Dwight, 1858; Jamieson, 1868.
For citation from Cumming, see his Great Tribulation, London, 1859, p.
4; see also his Things Hard to be Understood, London, 1861, p. 48. For
an admirable summary of the work of the great modern philologists, and
a most careful estimate of the conclusions reached, see Prof. Whitney's
article on Philology in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A copy of Mr.
Atkinson's book is in the Harvard College Library, it having been
presented by the Trustees of the Public Library of Victoria. For
Galloway, see his Philosophy of the Creation, Edinburgh and London,
1885, pp. 21, 238, 239, 446. For citation from Baylee, see his Verbal
Inspiration the True Characteristic of God's Holy Word, London, 1870,
p. 14 and elsewhere. For Archdeacon Pratt, see his Scripture and Science
not at Variance, London, 1856, p. 55. For the citation from Dr. Eadie,
see his Biblical Cyclopaedia, London, 1870, p. 53. For Dr. Dwight,
see The New-Englander, vol. xvi, p. 465. For the theological article
referred to as giving up the sacred theory, see the Cyclopaedia of
Biblical, Theo