Bible Characters : Adam to Achan. By Alexander Whyte, D.D.
(Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—Dr. Whyte says what he has to say, which is not seldom of a thoughtful and original sort, in a vigorous fashion. Sometimes he gives the impression of a striving for effect. But he is never tedious, and the reader who does not carry away something useful from his book must be strangely dense and unreceptive. Here is a passage, taken almost at random : —" Just imagine Almighty God, with this universe of angels and men in His heart and on His hands, and engaged day and night in steering it into an everlasting harbour of harmony, and peace, and truth, and wisdom, and love. Take in something of the magnificence and the wisdom and the love of God. And then imagine Him looking down and listening to one of our debates with all our passions in a flame as to whether we are to worship our Maker with a psalm or with a hymn or with a sentence ; with an American organ, or with a real, home-built, and high-priced English organ." Why is the birthright scene attributed to "Isaac's death-bed" ? According to the Biblical chronology he lived fifty-six years afterwards.
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