Hosts of unsuspected witnesses to the transcendent authority
and preciousness of the Scriptures. Mighty and universal
influence which they have exercised on all that is greatest
in human life and literature. In them is all the best wisdom
of the world. I. A pleiad of varied testimonies. i. Car-
dinal Newman. ii. Heinrich Heine. iii. Theodore Parker.
iv. Heinrich von Ewald. v. Ernest Renan. vi. Professor
Huxley. vii. Matthew Arnold. II. Second group of testi-
monies. i. F. W. Faber. ii. Rousseau. iii. Lessing.
iv. Goethe. v. Emerson. vi. Alfred de Musset. vii. Kue-
nen. viii. Faraday. III. Testimonies of great writers.
i. Hooker. ii. Milton. iii. The Translators of 1611.
iv. Spenser. v. Bacon. vi. George Herbert. vii. George
Wither. viii. Izaak Walton. ix. Sir I. Newton. x. Other
English writers. xi. Sir W. Jones. xii. Cowper. xiii. Col-
lins. xiv. John Wesley. xv. Coleridge. xvi. Sir Walter
Scott. xvii. Lord Macaulay. xviii. Charles Dickens.
xix. Thomas Carlyle. xx. John Ruskin. xxi. Tennyson
and Browning. xxii. J. A. Froude. xxiii. Charles Reade.
xxiv. R. L. Stevenson. XXV. Hall Caine. xxvi. J. H.
Green. IV. Testimonies of statesmen and rulers. i. Louis
