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Excerpt from An Answer to the Criticisms of "Christianity and Its Bible" And a Discussion of the Baptist Position and the Question of Honesty
The critic having been silenced on the one charge brings other and perhaps graver charges against the book in a pamphlet of 15 pages, entitled: A Critique of Christianity and the Bible, by Pastor E. J. Grant. This pamphlet. Advertised in the Maritime Baptist. Is not only being circulated industriously among the members of Mr. Waring's congregation in Halifax, but is being sent to many of the ministers and laymen of the Baptist denom ination in the Maritime Provinces. Mr. Grant would pro bably admit that the olfact of the pamphlet upon the average man who has not read the book would be to pre judice him most strongly against the author of Christianity and I-ts Bible. The Maritime Baptist. In an editorial commenting on Mr. Grant's critique. States 'lf any one reads Mr. Grant's Critique without having read Mr. Waring's book, he may not unnaturally reach the conclusion that Christianity and its Bible is a book characterized by dangerous tendencies and much pernicious doctrine. Those who wish to reach an unprejudiced conclusion in the matter may with profit read both the book and the Critique.' That Mr. Grant's pamphlet is calculated to ln ?ame and arouse a very bitter feeling against the author of Christianity and Its Bible, especially among those who have not read the book or who have read it hastily is undeniable. A prominent medical doctor. A member of a Baptist church in one of the towns of Nova Scotia. In a letter dated Feb. 1sth, wrote me among other things the following, which I quote as showing the effect of the pamphlet upon the mind of one of our leading and in telligent laymen. 'l have received a pamphlet purporting to be a criticism of Christianity and its Bible, by Pastor E. J. Grant. Careful readers with little or no knowledge of the subject will feel an injustice is being done to Mr. Waring, for upon its face it is an attack and not a critique. There are many others who will know that this so called critique completely ignores Mr. Waring's declared purpose in his book, continually avoids the prim ary issue raised in the first of the book and persistently misrepresents the positions taken by Mr. Waring through out the book. Thore are, however, many others who will feel that this production has annihilated Mr. Waring's theology, his book and his in?uence, hardly leaving even a memory in their minds of his temerity in ventur ing to express his belief.'
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