Self-depreciation from J. Gresham Machen

Reformed Covenanter

Cancelled Commissioner
It is no doubt unfortunate that the person who speaks about this subject should have so limited an experimental acquaintance with the subject about which he is endeavouring to speak; but in these days of anti-intellectualism you may be willing to hear a word in defence of the intellect, even from one whose qualifications for speaking on that subject are so limited as mine.

J. Gresham Machen, ‘The Importance of Christian Scholarship for Evangelism. An Address Delivered in London before the Bible League, June 17, 1932’, Christianity Today, 3, no. 7 (Mid-November 1932), p. 8.
 
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