The United Free Church. By the Rev. R. Logan. (Macniven
and Wallace. 2s. 6d.)—" The United Free Church," says Mr. Logan, "may be compared to a river composed of four streams,— the Reformed Presbyterian, the Secession, the Relief, and the Free Church." And, to carry on the metaphor, he traces each one of these to its source. We must be content with this mention of the book, which doubtless will be found of value by students of Church history. The general impression left on a reader who is not specially interested in Scottish °cclesiastical developments is the contrast between these controversies and those which dis- turbed Christendom in the "Age of the Councils." It would not be easy to say how many creeds came into being during the fourth and fifth centuries. Here the Creed remained sub- stantially the same ; the conflict was about the constitution of the Church. How terribly in earnest the combatants were may be seen from the fact that the "Reformed Presbyterians waited for fifteen years for a regular ordained minister, without having the Lord's Supper dispensed and Baptism administered to their children."
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