If a man's "search for truth" lands him in a very old and well-known error, is he to be allowed to teach that error in pulpit or professor's chair, established and paid for by evangelical folk, because forsooth he was "searching for truth" when he landed in the old bog?--Western Recorder.

      Oh, yes, you must let him alone; for if you "evangelical folk" who are footing the bill venture to interfere, the cry of persecution will be raised, you will hear of Galileo, the burning of witches, and the Inquisition. You will learn that this is an age of free thought, and that bigotry is a back number. It will be rung in your ears that the "old and well-known error" is a new truth about fifty years in advance of the age, and people who are not posted will believe it. So when a wolf gets into the fold, you must not take a club to him, but you must try to convince him that he is in the wrong place, and persuade him in a brotherly way to retire. You must understand that all men have a right to their opinions, except you who are orthodox.

[SEBC 110]