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A Confession of Faith. By " An Unorthodox Believer." (Mac- millan

and Co.)—This is a thoughtful book and certainly worth reading, though we cannot grant all or anything like all the

author's postulates. We cannot allow, for instance, that "a super- natural revelation must needs be unintelligible to human nature."

Take the simplest term of Revelation, the moral law, as contained in the Commandments. There is nothing unintelligible in that Yet it was supernatural. There is not a term that is not within human understanding; only the sanction is extra-human.