ABSTRACT
A school is a good place in which to present the truth. In our day and country the school is one of the most marked features of our civilization; and its purpose is supposed to be the impartation and reception of truth. The modern conception of a school is not so much that of a bureau of information as it is a room of inquiry; and since skepticism has always bristled with interrogation points, and delighted in assertions, it is natural that it should resort to this center for exploitation. The great denominations, an overwhelming majority of whose members believe the Bible from cover to cover, can not understand how it comes about that so many instructors are skeptical. Among the Presbyterians of America, wirepulling by skeptics has not been so successful; and in some notable instances the men who laid hold upon them, found them live wires.
