Revelation and Inspiration : the Historical Books of Scripture: a
Sermon. By Marcus Dods, D.D. (John Mackinlay, Glasgow.)—A very remarkable sermon, which seems to show—if we are right in attributing it to a minister of the Free Kirk—that the Broad Church is as ably represented in that Church as it is in the Church of England ; and we mean, of course, by the Broad Church, not a Church with only the shadow of a belief left to it, but a Church with a deep and earnest belief in revelation, but which, none the less, opens its eyes to the fact that the revelation made through men is made through an imperfect medium, and that the inspiration addressed to men, though an inspiration teaching them the character and ways of God, does not necessarily teach them in any degree the accomplishments and discriminating skill of scholars or psychologists. No one could well help being the better for the careful reading of this admirable sermon.
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