Excerpt from Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbour: A Letter to the Editor of the English Review On one point, where a grave censure is deduced from a misapprehension of the facts, I must st0p to correct that misapprehension. The Reviewer says (p. That it appears from the narrative that Archdeacon Hare had - urged Sterling to take holy orders at a period when he must have been conscious that the tendency of his early education was negative. When a person holding Arch deacon Hare's situation tells us that he has strongly urged a man of sceptical and unsound views to take holy orders, - a man with whose Opinions he was fully acquainted, we must say that an encouragement is at once held out to any amount of indifference, however criminal, in the choice and recommendation of candidates for holy orders. What condition can be more essential to the due exercise of the Christian Ministry, than a firm belief in the doctrines of Christianity? Such was not a qualification at any time possest by Mr Sterling. In this passage there are two false statements, which at all events betoken a deter mination to make out as heinous a case as possible. It is utterly false that Sterling at no time possest a firm belief in the doctrines of Christianity. The Memoir of his life Shews that for a long time he did receive those doctrines fully. So did be for a long time receive the Scriptures as inspired, although his view of the mode of inspiration differed from the common one. Again, it is not true that I was acquainted with Sterling's sceptical and unsound views, and with the negative tendency of his early education, at the time when I recommended him to take orders. Of course, in the narrative of his life, I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.