THE ORIGINS .AND AIMS OF 111E FOUR GOSPELS.
The Origins and Aims of the Four Gospels. By the Rev. J. M. Wilson, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Wilson gives us here a moderately conceived and clearly expressed statement of some critical questions. The discourses on St. Luke's Gospel are, perhaps, the most interesting ; we would point especially to the treatment of the relation of the Evangelist to St. Paul. He must have been influenced by his long companionship with the great man, yet he drew his portrait of the Master with a quite indepen- dent hand. The lectures on St. John are also full of suggestion. They state the purpose of the Fourth Gospel in an instructive way. "It was now [after his years of experience of the actual needs of men] less to him than it had been what Christ actually said or did—though flashes of vivid memory come back; what is of vital importance is to show to others what Christ must have been to Himself." Thus the miracles are described, not so much as acts of a compassionate teacher, as signs of power. Altogether, this is an excellent book.
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