ME GORDON FORLONG'S REPLY

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 39, 8 September 1888, Page 2

ME GORDON FORLONG'S REPLY

TO- »H!E KDITOR 0? TBE STAR. Sir,—l observe that correspondents- . have favored me with sharp criticisms -' ia your paper recently, and Professor Salmottd and hie opiiifeiis Sre slip- :;' ported. Would the friends : of the' Professor not induce biii to- challenge- : r - his respondent;; JBr^Macgregbf; to dis- ' cms Bibl* theology ? «ry if the Pro* : f'essor would meet a mere ordinaryBible scholar like myself,l will gladly go-to- Dunedin r and hold three^orufoor day'a discussion overJ^ible subjects j and, if he- comes o«* of it a sound able Bible expounder, his time will flat be wasted; but, furtberj' I will ; undertake to remunerate him for histime—fi*fr pounds a day, 1 for four hours a day, will make him no loser, j\ and, if he-understands his Bible, it will'soon, appear.,.; We will ask ques- , tidns arternately,-^eyfiry question must be on a portion of Scripture^ If i' plain Bible scholar Is willing ton beinterrogated abruptly, upon; any. por^. tion of Scripture, a Prof efcspr of Theology will find no difficulty in an«wer^ .. ing questions and in aßking(queßtionß.;" ' •, He may reasonably object that .prob- . ably heterodox opinions would thus ;,,. .Jbsa wjattered, and it is quite true .that V, heterodox preachers sometimes wish! '. to>-gather, through another man's- ,; name, a congregation thus;—but I will undertake, in neither questions nor, answers, 1 to moot doctrines that are adverse, to theology, and, I must-admit, that their views are: . very biblical. Long orations can be \. arrested, by; a rule that no one is7t»; apeak above ten minutes at a time. - .. A scholar cab, touch- the keynotes of ' any important passage in ten minutes ; he.eearn r in that time, show whether he" has mastered its leading* . thoughts, „ j&rofeispr Balmond*s friends msif thus, perhaps, establish his reputation ' af reeh. j, His lectures were, considered to. have no Old Testament grasp of truth nor depth in-bygone times, and '^ib writings prove that Bible exposition'he does not understand; but hisfriends, may possibly induce him to prove ins theology now. , Let him be; . tiiddenly called- upon to expound por r tions, andhe will j^rove to his admirers.. igKerehe ftands,—lam, iSq.,, . V i" ■■.'..' ?., fc,^;:iGKkm>o^ JEpßixwa. ■.'-.-.