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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2554, 14 March 1877, Page 3

The student who twenty years ago was contented with the Greek and Latin fathers and the Anglican divines,- now reads Ewald and Kenan. Tfic church authorities still refuse to look their difficulties in the face; they prescribe-, for mental troubles- the established closes of Paley anc]: Pearson ; they .refuse dangerous questions as sinful, and tread the round of commonplace in placid comfort.. I3ut ft.wlll n«>t avail. Their pupils grow to manhood, I and fight the battle for themselves, unaided by those who ought to have stood by them in their trial; the bitterness of those conflicts, and the end of .most of them in uncertainty'-or, careless indifference is notorious. ;.-. v; • ;• We may thrust the subject aside;; take refugein practical work; believe, perhaps, ; that the situationis desperate^xirhopeless' of improvement; and refuse to let the question be disturbed. But we cannot escape from our shadow, and the spirit of uncertainty will haunt the world like an uneasy ghost, till we t?.]<c it by the throat like men.—"Plea for free discussion of Theological difficulties.-'—Fboude..,.'..