The following concerning Peake’s Commentary finding its proper level, and companionship amongst avowedly anti-Christian literature, is from a correspondent in New South Wales.
It appeared in one of the Sydney papers, calling attention to the fact that “The Rationalistic Association of Australia” is now “advertising and selling Peake’s Commentary, in conjunction with Voltaire, Tom Paine, Ingersoll, Haeckel, and similar works.”
At our family prayers this morning we read the second chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter; and the first and second verses of the chapter seemed to have foretold in a striking manner what Professor Peake, and men like him, would do in our days. Solemn words they are: ―
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”