A meeting of the National Bible Socipty of Scotland was
held at Glasgow on Tuesday, the Duke of Argyll presiding, at which the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles is reported to have made a very remarkable speech, full of high thought and wide faith :—" When we discover in Holy Scripture (that which at first sight might seem to disprove its supernatural character) the marks of human infirmity, not only in its text, but in the substance, and dis- cover the meaning of this, we get from this a proof of its being from above, which we did not expect, and which, so far from taking from its heavenly origin, adds proof that it is from above." As to the human in Scripture containing the divine, " there is," said the Bishop, " a junction, and a haze at the junction,—an impossibility of severing the earthly from the heavenly without injury to each other. We must not at- tempt it. But rather let us stand at a little distance, and the dimness will disappear." That is true, and a very fine image to describe the wholeness of Divine truth, when looked at "from a little distance," without microscopic examination of its dove- tailing with the human. But then, on both sides of the line of junction we need no such reserve. There is that which is plainly both of Heaven and of earth in the Bible, as well as this line of intersection which it is a mere trial of the vision to define too closely.
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