It is amusing to note that during his seminary days he had written a prize-winning paper in defense of infant baptism. Now he is withdrawing from his church because he no longer believes in the validity of his old thesis. “A foolish consistency,” wrote Emerson, “is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” A. B. Simpson was never a slave to consistency. He could sometimes contradict himself with an elegant grace that made the hide-bound “theologicians”