answered question ; but the one to which attention is
directed in these pages is " Whence art Thou ? " The subject is far too deep and wide to be touched on here, but the intention of the writer is best described in his own words. He says it is "an exposition and an argument,—an exposition, perhaps rather a state- ment, of the personal claims said in the Four Gospels to have been asserted by Jesus of Nazareth ; and an argument based on that statement, the conclusion of which is, that no rational explana- tion can be given of the words ascribed to Christ, except that which assumes their truth." Dr. Kennedy, who has been for many years the honoured minister of one of the oldest Congregational churches in London, and who has before been writing on kindred subjects, ap- proaches this one in a spirit as far removed from irreverence on the one hand, as from superstitions folly on the other. He seems to have a special faculty for seizing and quoting aptly the words of great writers on the subject, whether agreeing with him or not, and weaving them into his own argument, which is throughout expressed in a clear and forcible style.
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