THE APOSTLE PAUL.
The Apostle Paul. By Alexander Whyte, D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 3s. 6c1.)—The author of this volume is one of the most popular preachers in Scotland, and although it is dedicated to "students of divinity," there are in it many "pulpit touches," such as a sentence like this : "Above all his other dis- coveries, when Professor Ramsay goes east to dig for Paul in Ephesus, I would like him to disinter Paul's pastoral visitation book, and with it the key to those cipher and shorthand entries about what he said and what he did in this house and in that, and day and night with tears." But Dr. Whyte's style of treating Paul as if he were a preacher or theologian who had died quite recently, and were therefore a fit subject for journalistic or semi journalistic criticism, is undoubtedly very attractive. He further
deals with the Apostle under a variety of different and character- istically Scotch "heads," as "Paul as a Student," "Paul as a Pastor," "Paul as Sold under Sin," and, above all, "Paul as an Evangelical Mystic," in the light, that is to my, which is nearest to the heart of Dr. Whyte. These studies of Paul are supple- mented by an " appreciation " of Walter Marshall, "the most Pauline of Divines."
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