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which aide of this inquiry tL.(J~ chose, amI
bring forward :1.:1 the facts and nrgumenb
which were ~Hppo5eu to bear on the subject.
1[,,::.t, if not ""H, wIJo were expt'cted to take
part in the dcbatp., appea.red as the open champions
of infidelity. But what was the Tt'::Iuh?
"~hen they had cnaw, anu were fdicit.-'l.ting
thcm::icl\'Cs on having gained n victory, the
prc:'.idcnt took up their arguments one by on~,
and succeeded in ~howi[Jg tIa.'m that they did
not at all undcrst..allll tue subject. l;'rorn that
day skepticism began to go UOWIl iu tIle col.
lege, until it became uniYcr~all.'y llllpopulnr.
A story very similar 10 this is told of tbe
ll.~trnctl and venerable Chief ..T usticc :!\[IlTshnlL
.Mudt in the ~:lmc way ditl he f1ilcncca com.
pany of forward and bon. ..tful 'young men at a
public iUD, who had just ueeu maklng out to
their own ::.atisfu0tion, that the Bible is not the
book of God. Tha.t vcnerable mau, ill a etraill
of simple ancl COllvincing dO(-lucnec, such a:i
he well knew how to employ, went over thu
whole ground of the Divine authority of tho
Scripture.", :1.... they 4111sat together by the fireside)
nnJ so clearly did he make out tbe case,