MR SPURGEON AND PROFESSOR HUXLEY.
Mr Spurgeon in the February number o£ his “ Sword and Trowel,” has a trenchant note in which he confesses that he nevea dreamt that he should feel grateful t(i Professor Huxley for an expression of opinion upon theology, but that he must own his obligations to him for a sentence, in the “ Agnostic Annual.” The sentence; runs thus : “ On the whole the ‘ bosh’ of heterodoxy is more offensive to me than that of orthodoxy ; because heterodoxy professes to be guided by reason and science, and orthodoxy does not.” Upon this Mr Spurgeon remarks : “Let those who imagine that they are pleasing the great scientists by perpetually bowing and scraping to them see how their lowly adorations are received. Sensible men know how to value the complaints of those who can cut and shape their creed according to the last new ‘ fad’ of scientific theorists. We do not wonder that the poor unreasonable orthodox believer should be less offensive to any kind of honest man than the creature who knows nothing whatever of science and yet has the word for ever on his tongue*”
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1198, 1 July 1884, Page 2
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188MR SPURGEON AND PROFESSOR HUXLEY. Temuka Leader, Issue 1198, 1 July 1884, Page 2
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