Professor Huxley on Bible Reading

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 62, 12 November 1889, Page 3

Professor Huxley on Bible Reading

(ireatly to the surprise of nmny of my friends I have always advocated the readiug of the Bil.lo and ?h« diffusion of the study, of that most remark able collection ;of books among the -people. Its teachings are so infinitely superior to those of the sects, who are just as busy now, "as the Pharisee's were 1800 years ago, in smothering them under " the precepts of men".; it is so certain, to my niiud, that the - Jiible contaius within itself the refutation of nine-tenths of the mixture of sophistical metaphysics and OM World -superstition, which has been piled avouiid it by the .so-called Christians of later time ; it is so clear that the only immediate aud ready antidote to the poison which has been mixed with Christianity, to the intoxication and ' delusion of mankind, lies iu copious from the undefiled spring, that I exercise the right and duty of free judgment on the part of every man, mainly for the purpose of inducing other laymen to follow my example. If the New Testament is translated into Zulu by Protestant missionaries it N must be assumed that a Zulu convert is competeut to draw from its contents all' the truths which it is necessary for him to believe. I -trust that I may, without immodesty, claim to be put on., the same footing us the Zulu.- — Popular Science Monthly. *