PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON BIBLE READING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2710, 23 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON BIBLE READING.

Greatly to the surprise of many of my friends I have always advocated the reading of the Bible and the diffusion of the study of that most remarkable collection of baoks amongst the people. Its teachings are so infinitely superior to those of the sects, who are just as busy now as the Pharisees were, 1800 years ago, in smothering them under " the precepts of of raeu " ; it is so certain, to my mind, that the Bible contains withiu itself the refutation of nine-tenths of the mixture of sophistical metaphysics and Old World superstition, which has been piled around it by the so-called Christians of later time ; it is so clear that the only ready antidote to the poison which has been mixed with Christianity to the intoxication and delusion of mankind, lies in copious draughts 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 must be assumed that a Zulu convert is competent 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 as the Zulu.— Popular Scieaco Monthly.