Judge Waite has succeeded as well as any one, in his attempt to find _other_ writings than our Gospels, that will meet the necessities of the case. Professor Lipsius, one of the most eminent scholars in Germany, says,[15] “The attempt to prove that Justin Martyr and the Clementine Homilies had one extra-canonical authority common to them both, either in the Gospel to the Hebrews or in the Gospel of St. Peter, has altogether failed.” Of recent writers this side of the ocean, Dr. Ezra Abbot of Harvard College (who has already “a distinguished Continental reputation”), states,[16] after a thorough examination of the whole subject, as some of the results: “We have seen that there is no _direct_ evidence of any weight that Justin used either the ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’ (so far as this was distinguished from the Gospel according to Matthew) or the ‘Gospel according to Peter.’ That he should have taken either of these as the source of his quotations, or that either of these constituted the ‘Memoirs’ read generally at public worship in the Christian churches of his time, is in the highest degree improbable.”... “Still less can be said in behalf of the hypothesis that any other Apocryphal ‘Gospel’ of which we know anything, constituted the ‘Memoirs,’ which he cites, if they were one book, or was included among them, if they were several.” Mr. Rowe’s[17] judgment is, that the facts referred to by Justin, but not recorded in the Gospels, stand to those which _are_ recorded, in the proportion of only four, to one hundred and ninety-six. In other words, that all but four out of about two hundred references, appear in the Gospels. “It is marvellous,” he says, “when we consider the nearness of the time when Justin lived to our Lord’s ministry, that he should have preserved so few incidents respecting it which vary from those in our Gospels, rather than that those to which he has referred should present the slight variations they do; for it is an interval within which traditionary reminiscences must have possessed all their freshness.” [1] P. 16 of “Authorship of the Fourth Gospel,” etc. (1880). [2] The _Daily Inter-Ocean_ of Feb. 12, 1881. To the same effect, “The Authorship,” p. 98, note 6; The Supernatural Origin of Christianity, by George P. Fisher, D.D., Professor of Christian History in Yale College (1870), p. 191-2; Origin, etc., by Prof. C. E. Stowe (1867), p. 185, c. 7.