RELIGIOUS TENDENCIES IN SCOTLAND.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"]
Sin,—In noticing a paper by me in the Contemporary Review, on what is styled" The Religious Upheaval in Scotland" on Saturday last, you say that you look forward "to the development in Scot- land of a somewhat stern system of God-worship, loyalty to God as sovereign rather than as Deity." I do not see, even with the help of your Mahommedan comparison, that there is very much difference between us, unless, indeed you associate this "loyalty to God as sovereign" with the recognition in some form of his personal existence. Otherwise, what is this God-worship, but the resolute and sustained acceptance of the Order of Nature, as revealed in facts ?—I am, Sir, &c., WILLIAM WALLACE.
[But of course we did associate precisely what Mr. Wallace sup- poses that we "associate with loyalty to God as sovereign." Nature is not God, and loyalty to a natural system not of divine origin has, to our minds, no meaning.—En. Spectator.]
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