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The Christian religion takes its stand upon the ground of history. It is not primarily either a system of philosophy or an ethical code. It is what it is because it maintains that certain things have actually happened in the past.

The documents from which our knowledge of these events is in the first instance derived must therefore be of unique and permanent importance in all Christian eyes. For more than three hundred years the Church of England has laid particular emphasis upon the study of the Scriptures, because it is convinced that whenever the Bible is neglected religion will always decay.

But there is now a feeling abroad that the authority of the New Testament has been seriously shaken by recent studies, if it is not in danger of being destroyed outright. On the surface there are some grounds for such misgivings. But it would be more accurate to say that our conception of the nature of the authority which attaches to the New Testament, and of the way in which we ought to invoke it, has undergone a change than that the authority itself has been impaired.

Critical study of the New Testament is to be welcomed, inasmuch as it is one avenue of approach towards that knowledge of the truth for which the Church of England prays twice every day. To fear its conclusions is to stand convicted of lack of Faith. Faith and Courage are very closely allied: and Christian Faith constrains us to recognize that every addition to our knowledge must strengthen the claim upon our loyalty of Him who is Himself the Truth. No false opinion which can be entertained about Him can exalt His character. No mist of piety through which we can view Him can make Him appear greater than He really is.

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