A great amount of discussion has been aroused in religious circles over an address before Emperor Wilhelm by Professor Delitzsch, the Orientalist, on “Babel und Bibel,” in which the professor contends that all the principal part of Genesis, and even the worship of the self-existent God, whom he denominates Yahwe, are borrowed from Babylonian myths. The Independent remarks that in the decision “it is a noteworthy fact that Delitzsch has not found a single Orientalist or theologian who will approve of his proposition that the leading stories in the book of Genesis, the account of creation, of the Deluge and the like, are only reproductions of Babylonian mythology, and that, too, in degenerated forms. Least of all has he been able to gain friends for his hypothesis that the name and the worship of Yahwe were derived from Babylonia. Rather singularly, even the more radical Old Testament men dissent in almost every particular. Cornill, of Breslau, characterizes the position of Delitzsch as ‘an extravagant glorification of Babylon at the expense of the Bible, against which it is the duty of the Old Testament specialist to protest vigorously.’ The veteran Nöldeke, of Strassburg, repeats a conviction expressed some years ago—namely, that outside of purely Assyriological problems Delitzsch’s judgment is very unreliable.” Somehow these profound students of exhumed remains do not seem to grasp what might have been a simple fact, that the mythology of Babylon is but the perversion of the true; and the true is perpetuated to us in the Bible. If Professor Delitzsch should live two thousand years hence, studying the archaeology of the Christian era, he would conclude that the New Testament teaching was gathered from the early “Fathers,” and the Reformers drew their power and inspiration from the Dark Ages. Nevertheless, God’s Book, Genesis and all, will stand—for men if they wish it so, against them if they will to run their puny heads against the thick bosses of its buckler.