17 JANUARY 1947, Page 4

Dr. J. A. Hutton has not long survived his severance

from the British Weekly, the editorship of which he relinquished last September. It is as editor of that notable Free Church journal that he will mainly be remembered, but those who knew him best, and knew him thirty years ago, will probably agree that it is primarily as a preacher that he should live in memory. His fluency, coupled with real depth of thought and experience, was remarkable. He tended to write too much of the British Weekly 'himself ; and of course he suffered, as anyone was bound to, by an inevitable comparison with the paper's editor par excellence, Sir William