BIBLE READING -THE GAIN TO CHRISTIAN FAITH FROM 66 " DETERMINISM-FALSE AND TRUE" "HAECKEL'S MONISM FALSE EDINBURGH T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE Street 1924 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY MORRISON AND GIBB LIMITED FOR T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH LONDON SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO. LIMITED NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS AUTHOR'S NOTE WHEN it is borne in mind how many homes and " places of worship" there are, both in this and other lands, where the Bible is only known in the English language, the importance of the question whether the truth, or something else, is printed in the name of " Holy Scripture," becomes simply immeasurable. The fact must be faced, for fact it is, that there are thousands of ordinary-and one must hope sincere worshippers whose only conception of, or attention to, what the Bible contains, is derived from the so-called "lessons" which are read in public. Upon such readings their ultimate apprehension of what Christianity involves is really based. Small wonder, therefore, that much confusion of thought and lack of conviction obtain, even amongst church-going people. For even if the main messages of the Bible-from the Christian standpoint were suitably selected, read from a reliably accurate translation, in natural tones, and through the medium of language as homely—and therefore intelligible—as, thanks to the Papyri, we now know the original Greek of the New Testament was, yet the time allotted is so short, that comparatively little, at best and most, can be brought home to the average mind. But, unfortunately, these requisites of useful and |