WORKS BY THE REV. R. HEBER NEWTON. A study of I. THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS. Genesis, with a general introduction to the Pentateuch. 16°, cloth, $1.00; paper, 40 cents. "The text is well worth reading, as containing a complete popular exposition of the Pentateuch regarded as a collection of facts, legends, and stories by unknown writers."-Eagle, Brooklyn. II. THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE BIBLE. New edition. 16°, cloth, 75 cents, "It can be truthfully said that from beginning to end there is not a dull page in them. Mr. Newton possesses the great merit of saying what he means in simple and forcible English."-N. Y. Tribune. III.-WOMANHOOD. Lectures on Woman's Work in the World. New edition. 12°, cloth, $1.25. "All earnest women, and candid, unselfish men will read this series of chapters with warm gratitude to its author."-The Nation. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON. PLAIN WORDS CONCERNING CERTAIN FORMS OF MODERN SCEPTICISM BY R. HEBER NEWTON RECTOR OF ALL SOULS' PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK & LONDON AUG 16 1941 B.S 66 These (the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian) and other Creeds which might be mentioned, are all of human fabrication. They oblige conscience as far as they are conformable to Scripture, and of that conformity every man must judge for himself. *** This liberty of private judgment is recognized by our church (notwithstanding subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles) when, in the Service of the Ordering of Priests, it proposes this question- Are you determined, out of the said Scriptures, to instruct the people committed to your charge, and to teach nothing as required of necessity to eternal salvation, but that which YOU SHALL BE PERSUADED may be concluded and proved by the Scriptures?'"-Bishop Watson: “Life”: I; PP. 395-397. "We should like to see the man who for such contradictions as these will venture to call his brother to account. Let him who agrees with every word and statement of the Formularies cast the first stone at these variations. All clergymen, of whatever school, who have the slightest knowledge of their own opinions and of the letter of the Prayer Book and Articles, must go out one by one, beginning at the Archbishop of Canterbury in his palace at Lambeth, even down to the meanest curate in the wilds of Cumberland.”—Stanley: on Church and State"; p. 89. Essays "If the Catholic Church is to retain its hold upon the hearts and lives of men, this must be by loyalty to that ideal of its work and character which we find in the Holy Scriptures. What is this ideal? It is that of a spiritual society, united by spiritual bonds, and existing for the great spiritual end of making earth more like heaven, and men more like their Lord. It is that of a brotherhood of manifold diversities *** absorbing into itself all that is great, noble and true of all ages and countries, the soul of each member being the habitation of the Most High, and his body a temple of the Holy Ghost.”— Archbishop of Canterbury (Tait): "Letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople" |