But the chief interest of these years lay in the
struggles caused by the publication of Essays and
Reviews, In 1850 he had contemplated the serious
issues which must arise if such a Court as the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council were to deal with
subjects of such delicacy and seriousness as the Inspir-
ation of the Bible and Eternal Punishment ; and these
were the very two points on which they were called to
decide. The book was published in 1860 ; in 1861
Dr. Williams was prosecuted by the Bishop of Salisbury
for virtually denying the Inspiration of the Holy

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Scriptures ; Mr. Wilson by the Rev. J. Fendall on the
same charge^ and also for denying the doctrine of the
Eternal Punishment of the wicked. Both clergy
were condemned in 1862 by the judgment of Dr.
