Fifteen Congregational ministers sat in old Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, last week and solemnly listened to the quizzing of newly resigned President James Stanley Durkee of Howard College about his faith. As solemnly he answered them; called the Bible "a library of 66 books," no one having been written in any relation to the others, each bearing the stamp of its time and reflecting the varying "excellences and limitations of its author"; said of the Gospel: "It is not a narcotic to superinduce numbness or oblivion to the wrongs of this life....
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