And if this be
true, the record satisfies the spiritual need of man in its fullest
extent.'
We have given Mr. Miall's views at greater length, because he occupies
so high a position, not only in one of the largest religious
denominations in England, but in the country generally, and because we
have never seen any protest against his views from any writer of
influence, in any branch of the Church of Christ. Such protests may have
appeared, but we have never met with any. We may add, that while Mr.
Miall gives up the idea of infallibility, he holds that the writers of
the New Testament history were under divine _guidance_ in composing
their several memoirs of Christ.
Mr. Miall's views on the Old Testament writings we may have occasion to
notice further on.
The Rev. Dr. Parker, author of ECCE DEUS, has some remarks of a
character somewhat similar to those of Mr. Miall, but we have not his
works at hand.
Our next quotation is from a lecture on SCIENCE AND REVELATION,
by the very reverend R. Payne Smith, D. D., Dean of Canterbury. The
lecture was delivered at the request of the Christian Evidence Society,
London, and is published by that society, in their volume, entitled
MODERN SKEPTICISM.
'Revelation has nothing to do with our physical state.
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