The Fatherhood of God. By the Rev. C. H. H.
Wright. (Clark : Edinburgh.)—Mr. Wright's views seem to be, in the main, thode of Dr. Candlish and his school, and he states them with a baldness which does not make them more attractive. He defines proper fatherhood as a relation "of which individuals are the objects, and by virtue of which they may look to receive favours, or hope and expect to escape deserved punishment." He considers it to be a very far-fetched and strange interpretation of the parable of the Prodigal Son to understand it " as meaning that both sinners and saints alike are objects of the Father's love, and that both are alike His children." It seems needless to give any further illustrations of his teaching. It does not surprise us after this that he applies to God the expression " who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell" without a shadow of misgiving; and that the notion that a further time of probation will be afforded to many, if not to all, hereafter, seems to him a very dangerous speculation. Can he look at the world as it is, and still believe that all men have a real pro- bation here ? It is something that ho is inclined to believe in the annihilation rather than in the everlasting torment of the wicked. Mr. Wright's tone, it ought to be said, is uniformly temperate, and he appears to be a man of some learning and research.
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