alogue of errors in the Bible._
The errors are in the only texts we have, and every one is
forced to recognize them.

It is well known that the great reformers, Calvin and
Luther, recognized errors in the Scriptures, that Baxter and
Rutherford of the second Reformation were not disturbed by
them, and that the choicest spirits of modern times--such as
Van Oosterzee, Tholuck, Neander, Stier, Lange, and
Dorner--have not hesitated to point out numerous errors in
Holy Scripture. This view is maintained by Sanday, Driver,
Cheyne, Davidson, Bruce, Gore, Marcus Dods, Blaikie, and
numerous others in Great Britain; by Fisher, Thayer, Smythe,
Evans, H. B. Smith, W. R. Harper, and hosts of others in
this country."

One can easily see how dangerously heretical such bold declarations
would sound to patriarchs of conservatism like Rev. Dr. Shedd, the
well-known author of Dogmatic Theology, which embraces thirteen
hundred pages, but in the index of which one looks in vain for
"forgiveness of sin" or "pardon of sin." A work which devotes
eighty-six pages to hell and only four to heaven. Dr. Briggs, however,
claims that theologians like Dr. Shedd, whose teachings have been
chiefly on the damnation of men not competent to judge him, and gauged
by our present civilization he is doubtless correct, but by the
standard of the theologians who framed the Westminster Confession, I
have less confidence in his accuracy. It must be remembered, however,
that Professor Briggs has exhaustively studied the lives and
teachings of the framers of the Confession, and he may have been able
at times to catch them at their best, when in moments of spiritual
exaltation they have uttered grand prophetic and divinely loving
utterances which were foreign to their usual habits of thought or the
religious conviction of the age in which they lived. And in that event
he may be able to maintain his position when his case is called before
the synod, even against the popular impression as to the real meaning
of the Confession. Failing in this, the only alternative will be
recantation or withdrawal from the Presbyterian Communion. From the
stand already taken it is impossible to imagine the professor
stultifying himself and teaching what he does not believe; while his
withdrawal will unquestionably mean the greatest schism that
Presbyterianism has yet suffered. I think it highly probable that the
majori