Colenso's Fallacies

From the Preface. IT is due the public, due the many writers who have so ably handled Colenso's book, and due me to state briefly how I came to venture into such a contest with such an opponent. When Colenso's book appeared, Dr. T. M. Eddy, editor of the North- Western Christian Advocate, requested me to write a review of it. After much hesitancy I consented, and as soon as my arduous duties would allow, I published the main body of the argument in the North-Western. In...
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From the Preface.
IT is due the public, due the many writers who have so ably handled Colenso's book, and due me to state briefly how I came to venture into such a contest with such an opponent. When Colenso's book appeared, Dr. T. M. Eddy, editor of the North- Western Christian Advocate, requested me to write a review of it. After much hesitancy I consented, and as soon as my arduous duties would allow, I published the main body of the argument in the North-Western. In the argument I have tried to exhibit Colenso's radical fallacies, and to meet his arguments one by one in their order. Whatever others might think of it, I felt that it removed Colenso's difficulties, so far as my own mind was concerned. I felt paid for my labor by this fact, for I could not preach a doctrine or system which was without foundation. I would not bow my soul one hour to any dogma which is not clearly supported by calm, honest reasoning. I cannot take a truth which is logically worthless. In the double assurance of the purity and veracity of the Scriptures, which this investigation has given me, and in the approval of Him whose I am, and whom I serve, I looked for my reward. I had no idea that the argument would ever take any other form; but, at the request of Drs. Clark, Harris, Eddy, and others, and with the approval of Henry Bannister, D. D., I have added a review of Colenso's Introduction and Preface, and now give it to the public in this form, hoping for it only some usefulness.