We record with regret the death of Dr. Norman Macleod,
editor of Good Words, and one of the moat liberal of the clergy of the Scotch Establishment, perhaps the only man in it who was also in the best sense a thorough man of the world. He was an honest courtier, a Scotch divine who defied the Sabbatarians, and editor of a religious magazine which did not suggest how these Christians hate one another, and in which he frequently secured the aid of Dukes, Bishops, and Cabinet Ministers. He was by temperament, by education, and by his keen sense of humour strongly inclined to tolerance, and though he shrank somewhat too often from open war with the bigots, his influence undoubt- edly helped to make the lives of the few Broad Churchmen In Scotland endurable. In England he would have been considered perfectly orthodox, but in Scotland there was always a suspicion that he did not sufficiently delight in the prospect of eternal punishment for the majority of the human race.
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