MR. SPURGEON AND PROFESSOR HUXLEY.
Me. Spukgeon- in the February number of 'his Sword and Trowel, has a' trenchant note in which he confesses that he never dreamt that he should feel grateful to Professor Huxley for an opinion upon theology. that he must own obligations to him f° r a sentence in the Agnostic Annual. That sen* tenca runs thus : '• On the whole the' boah'of heterodoxy i 3 more offensive to me than thatoi orthodoxy; because heterodoxy professes to b® guided by reason and science, and orthodoxy does not." Upon this Mr.. Spurgeon remar^ 5: "Let those who imagine, that they are pleasing :the great scientists, by perpetually bowing and scraping to them, see how their lowly adorations are received. Sensible men know how to value the complaints of those who can cut and shape their creed accordiiu! to the laat now 'fad' of scientific theoristsWe do not wonder that the poor unreasoasble, orthodox believer should bs less offensive any kind of honest man than tte creators who knows-nothing whatever .of. sience an as the .word for over on his tongue."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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