On the
contrary, I have frankly accepted it, and even gloried in it as an
integral, and I believe invaluable element of Scripture. I have
deliberately ignored many questions of great interest and
difficulty, because I had no satisfactory solution of them to offer;
but I have said at the same time that those questions were
altogether unimportant, compared with those salient and fundamental
points of the Bible history on which I was preaching. And therefore
I have dared to bid my people relinquish Biblical criticism to those
who have time for it; and to say of it with me, as Abraham of the
planets, 'O my people, I am clear of all these things! I turn
myself to him who made heaven and earth.'
I do not wish, believe me, to make you responsible for any statement
or opinion of mine. I am painfully conscious, on reviewing for the
Press Sermons which would never have been published save by special
request, how imperfect, poor, and weak they seem to me--how much
worse, then, they will appear to other people; how much more may be
said which I have not the wit to say! But the Bible can take care
of itself, I presume, without my help.
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