25 APRIL 1896, Page 12

The History of Religion. By Allan Menzies, D.D. (John Murray.)

—Professor Menzies follows the historical method. Judaism and Christianity take their place, according to the order which this method imposes, among the religions of the world. But they are not regarded as co-ordinate with them. Christianity is treated impartially along with them,—i.c., there is no assump- tion that it is a priori their superior. But the result is this

conclusion. "A religion which identifies itself, as Christianity does, with the course of freedom in every land, and tends to unite all men in one great brotherhood under the loving God who is the Father of all alike, is surely the desire of all nations, and is destined to be the faith of all mankind "