PART I. RATIONALISM AND THE BIBLE. CHAPTER I. T INTRODUCTORY. HE present age is one of intense mental activity; the human intellect is incessantly engaged in probing the foundations of all things, human and divine; no received opinion, however sacred, is allowed to remain unquestioned, and every weak joint in the armour of truth is the mark for a thousand arrows. That most precious of all gifts to humanity-the Christian religion-stands in the forefront of the battle; around it rages a violent storm of controversy, the most powerful artillery of the human mind assails it on every vulnerable point; whether |