From this he deduced that a mere glance at the Bible, as the higher critics explain it, must convince the earnest Christian that he can have no share in their views.

"Deprive Christianity of its supernatural basis," he said, "and you would have a mere speculative philosophy.

Deny the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden, and the Atonement becomes meaningless.

If we have not incurred God's wrath through Adam's disobedience, we need no Saviour.

That is the way to meet the higher criticism," he concluded earnestly.
As the only rule of the association was that no man should talk long upon any matter, Floud, the fiery and aggressive little Baptist, hereupon savagely reviewed a late treatise on the ethnic Trinities, put out by a professor of ecclesiastical history in a New England theological seminary.