Although, as we have said, many Christian divines do not, or do not profess to, see the force of the above argument, there are many who do; and they, regardless of their scientific learning, cling to these old myths, professing to believe them, _well knowing what must follow with their fall_. The following, though written some years ago, will serve to illustrate this style of reasoning. The Bishop of Manchester (England) writing in the "Manchester Examiner and Times," said: "The very _foundation of our faith_, the very _basis of our hopes_, the very nearest and dearest of our consolations are taken from us, _when one line of that sacred volume, on which we base everything, is declared to be untruthful and untrustworthy_." The "English Churchman," speaking of clergymen who have "_doubts_," said, that any who are not throughly persuaded "_that the Scriptures cannot in any particular be untrue_," should leave the Church. The Rev. E. Garbett, M. A., in a sermon preached before the University of Oxford, speaking of the "_historical truth_" of the Bible, said: "It is the clear teaching of those doctrinal formularies, to which we of the Church of England have expressed our solemn assent, _and no honest interpretation of her language can get rid of it_." And that: "In all consistent reason, _we must accept the whole of the inspired autographs, or reject the whole_." Dr. Baylee, Principal of a theological university--_St. Aiden's College_--at Birkenhead, England, and author of a "Manual," called Baylee's "_Verbal Inspiration_," written "_chiefly for the youths of St. Aiden's College_," makes use of the following words, in that work: "_The whole Bible_, as a revelation, is a declaration of the mind of God towards his creatures on all the subjects of which the Bible treats." "_The Bible is God's word_, in the same sense as if he had made use of no human agent, but had _Himself spoken it_." "The Bible cannot be less than verbally inspired. _Every word, every syllable, every letter_, is just what it would be, had God spoken from heaven without any human intervention." "Every scientific statement is infallibly correct, all its history and narrations of every kind, _are without any inaccuracy_."[18:1] A whole volume might be filled with such quotations, not only from religious works and journals published in England, but from those published in the United States of America.[18:2] FOOTNOTES: