kind that might be adduced and that will, doubtless, occur to you. It cannot be denied that they are serious difficulties. If for no other reason, this would be so because unbelievers make great capital out of them. The deist Bolingbroke says: “It is blasphemy to assert that the Old Testament writers were inspired, when they attribute such things to divinity as would disgrace humanity”; and Col. Ingersoll was continually sneering: “If the best that can be conceived of God is what the Old Testament