Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical error. In this book the transcriber has made the changes listed in the corrections list. * * * * * _THE WAVE OF SCEPTICISM AND THE ROCK OF TRUTH._ THE WAVE OF SCEPTICISM THE ROCK OF TRUTH: _A REPLY TO_ "SUPERNATURAL RELIGION: AN INQUIRY INTO THE REALITY OF DIVINE REVELATION." MATTHEW HENRY HABERSHON. "_Animus ad amplitudinem mysteriorum pro modulo suo dilatetur, non mysteria ad angustias animi constringantur._"--LORD BACON. London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27 & 31, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXV. CORRECTIONS. Title-page. _For_ anima, _read_ animi. Page iv. _For_ Wann Warden, _read_ Wann Wurden. xii. _For_ one allowed, _read_ one version allowed. 28 line 3. _For_ and that Paul, _read_ and that as for Paul. 52 line 3. _For_ first century, _read_ second century. 77 _For_ He suffered martyrdom on, _read_ He suffered martyrdom, it is said, on. 77 _For_ in the amphitheatre at Antioch, _read_ in the amphitheatre, not at Rome, but at Antioch. 78 line 4. _For_ letters, _read_ versions. 109 line 8 from bottom. _For_ whoever, _read_ whomsoever. 123 line 7. _For_ dead, _read_ read. 177 line 7. _For_ at the name of Jesus, _read_ in the name of Jesus. "_Every wave which beats against the rock of eternal truth seems to rise out of the trough caused by some receding wave, and raises its threatening crest as if it would wash away the rock._ "_It is of the nature of truth, that the more it is tested the more sure it becomes under the trial. These attacks of opponents are among the means whereby fresh evidences of the certitude of the Gospels are called out._" Translator of Tischendorf's Wann Wurden Unsere Evangelien Verfasst. PREFACE.