G.H.Pember was associated with "Brethren," (thus his inclusion here,) and he was influential in the thinking of G.H. Lang, himself a man of independent thinking and "unusual" interpretations of the Scriptures; nevertheless a real man of God, and a faithful servant of our Lord Jesus Christ. Lang's own autobiography "An Ordered Life" makes compelling reading. I am intending to compose a very short review of Earth's Earliest Ages. I recently purchased a copy (very expensive!) and have just glanced through the opening chapters. Pember did hold some strange views and from the outset of this book perplexed me somewhat. My immediate counsel to any believer reading this book is to exercise very careful discernment. I am quite certain that I will not read the entire volume, but I will still give my personal judgement as to its contents. While I do hold the "Gap Theory," (a dreadful and unwarranted misnomer,) my spiritual reasoning is based entirely on the Word of God, and particularly with reference to the use of parentheses throughout the Scriptures; e.g. the parenthesis between the 69th and 70th week of Daniel 9.
I hope also to say a few words about an edition of the Septuagint I bought just a few days ago. D.V.
