Believing Colenso’s work to be shallow, “mischievous and dangerous,” and severely lacking in religious and scientific scholarship, Jacob L. Stone nevertheless felt a rebuttal was in order primarily because of Colenso’s station as a Bishop in the Church of England. Finding eighteen critical mistakes in Colenso’s book, Stone addresses each inaccuracy thoroughly “however absurd and unworthy of serious refutation some of them might be.”
Jacob L. Stone was the author of several prominent books, including Collection of Thoughts, or Key to Scripture and Slavery and the Bible.