us
agencies which have been silently working for generations.

[9] The _United Presbyterian_ in a recent issue says,
"It appears that Dr. Briggs does not stand alone in the
theological seminaries of the Presbyterian Church as a
teacher of dangerous views of inspiration. Four of the
professors of Lane Seminary have declared themselves as
equally radical." The _Interior_ says, "The paper of
Prof. Smith, of Lane, published in a pamphlet with that
of Prof. Evans, goes much beyond anything that has
appeared on the subject from Presbyterian authorship in
this country."

At the meeting of the Alumni of the Union Theological
Seminary, on the eighteenth of May, the newly elected
professor of systematic theology, the brilliant Rev.
Henry J. Van Dyke, D. D. (since deceased) made the
following bold remark while defending Dr. Briggs: "_If
we cannot have orthodoxy and liberty, let orthodoxy go
and let us have liberty. Liberty has always produced
progress._"

In his sermon on May the 24th, Rev. Thomas Dixon, one
of the Baptist clergymen of New York City, said: The
heresy trial is a record of barbarism, a relic of
savagery. It belongs to the crudeness, and ignorance,
and superstition of barbaric times. It smells of
roasting flesh.

On the same Sunday the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst,
of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, of New York,
quoted the ringing words given above by Dr. Van Dyke,
with his cordial indorsement. He continued to thus
severely arraign the Orthodox brethren in the
Presbyterian Church:

"This question of inerrancy is not new. Calvin, Luther,
and many others did not believe in the Bible's
inerrancy. If this is not according to the confession
of faith--I don't know whether it is or not--we had
better square the confession with the truth rather than
the truth with the confession. Let those who would
prove that there are no mistakes in the Bible produce a
cud-chewing coney, and then we will consider the
question of inerrancy.

If the Church is to go on in the way that some are
trying to persuade us it ought