Chapter 3

_SECRET STUDY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES._

A fragmentary chapter--Higher Criticism--A technical and innocent term--Actual assertions of certain critics--"Do not follow this Book; follow Christ"--Weigh facts before theories--Testimony of Nature and History to Scripture--The Duke of Argyll in the _Nineteenth Century_--Prediction--Problem of the Human Knowledge of Jesus Christ--Current fulfilments of Prophecy--Methods of Bible Study--The plough--The spade--Specimen of spade-husbandry, in a Church Congress Study of the Epistle to the Philippians 45