THE SCRIPTURES CONTROVERSY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3641, 27 August 1880, Page 2

THE SCRIPTURES CONTROVERSY.

(To (he Editor of the Evening Star.) - Sir, —No Sceptic seems disposed to dispute Mr Laishley's—as you call itadmirable defence of New Testament writers. I, who may be supposed to know something about these matters — simply say it is unanswerable. I could have wished however, that the minister had given us just one more discourse, and that should be upon the internal evidences of the Divine character of these scriptures. I do not think that his uoble testimony is complete without this. Above all he should give us the unanswerable prophetical evidence. To myself that has always been the most conclusive of all eridence that the Bible as a whole is the word of the Holy Spirit of the Diety, for its pre- ' dictions- have— as yet -been fulfilled, so literally that it is impossible for an unprejudiced enquirer to doubt them, and if this be so, I for one am "certain that the remainder of prophecy unfulfilled which embraces an immensely large field must be as literally fulfilled as what has already come to pass. If Mr Laishley will do this and then print the whole of his three discourses in a pamphlet, it would be about the most complete answer to these good men sceptics, in a small compass, of modern times, and its. circulation would, I believe, do much good in confirming the faith of Christians if it did not convince some of these sceptics themselves; but it is not eridence that makes a real Christian, but the power of the Deity in the action of His holy spirit upon the whole being of the man. Thus it was that Christians were made in the days of the Apostles, and in no other way can they be made in these days. The preacher of the word is nothing—the spirit of the Deity in its application of that word to the unrenewed mind is ererything, One word for you, sir; you de-. serve commendation for publishing. Mr Laishley's unanswerable defence ver-batim.-—I am, &c,

Williah Wood. P.S.—Next week it is my intention to send you a letter upon the immaculate conception—that miracle of all miracles, but which the sceptics are particularly anxious to get rid of because they know if they can do that all other miracles must go with it.