rks, both in English and
German, the latter having been translated into
English."

On page 55 of his revised address, he observes:

The Biblical redemption is a redemption of our race and of
universal nature. As the ancient Jews limited redemption to
Israel and overlooked the nations, so the Church limited
redemption to those who were baptized, and excluded the
heathen and unbaptized. The Presbyterians have too often
limited redemption by their doctrine of election; the Bible
knows no such limitation. The Bible teaches election, but an
election of love. Loving only the elect, is earthly, human
teaching. Electing men to salvation by the touch of Divine
love--that is heavenly doctrine. The salvation of the world
can only mean the world as a whole, compared with which the
unredeemed will be so few and insignificant and evidently
beyond the reach of redemption by their own act of rejecting
it and hardening themselves against it, and by descending
into such depths of demoniacal depravity that they will
vanish from sight.

In the appendix to his address, published about the middle of May, in
speaking of _inerrancy_, Dr. Briggs further observes:--

It is agreed that there are a large number of errors in the
best MSS. of the Bible; it is the theory of modern
dogmaticians, that they were not in the original MSS. We can
never have them, and it is idle to speculate as to their
contents. When the Lower or Textual Criticism has done its
best, and secured the best possible text, dogmaticians
discredit the best text when they speculate as to what was
in the original text. If the reactionary dogmaticians may
speculate to remove errors from the text, the rationalistic
critics may also speculate with regard to the original text
in a way that would make havoc with scholastic theology.
Even Mohammed was willing to accept the original text of the
Law and the Gospel, which he claimed had been falsified by
Jews and Christians.

I said, "It is not a pleasant task to point out errors in
the Sacred Scriptures." In "Biblical Study," and "Whither?"
I limited myself to two errors of citation. I have not taken
a brief to prove the errancy of Scripture. _Conservative men
should hesitate before they force the critics in
self-defence to make a cat