The Teaching of Jesus. By R. F. Horton, D.D. (Isbister
and Co.)— This book, without being quite so new or so important as Dr. Horton seems to think, is a decidedly good one. It is practically an effort to go back from Christendom to Christ. There is an orthodox and there is a heterodox way of doing this. Heterodox teachers say, " Get rid of the significance which theologians have given to the Death, reject the fact of the Resurrection, and regard the Ascension as a parable ; be content with the teaching of the raster as the Gospels give it." We do not take this to be Dr. Horton's line. He would see the groat Christian truths implied in the teaching. But he gives occasion for misunder- standing. He seems to depreciate the development of the faith which it was the function of the Spirit working through the Apostles, and especially through St. Paul, to bring about. The fact that the Apostles and their successors preaching the Cross and the Resurrection, built up the Church, remains, and any language that seems to slight this work—and Dr. Horton does seem now and then to Blight it—does not tend to edification.
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