The Holy Sepulchre. (Marshall Brothers.)—This reply to Canon MacColl is
at least written with moderation and in a tone which the disputants in this controversy do not always maintain. The subject, at least, borders on theology, and is apt to be touched by the characteristic odium. If we could reach the innermost mind of the average advocate of the Traditional Sites we should probably see that he really holds the matter to be de fide. No gaps or difficulties in the evidence really affect him, and he finds it as difficult to be charitable, or even courteous, to an adversary as ho would be to a Eutychian or a Monothelite. There are many people, however, who can keep an open mind they will find much that is interesting in this little pamphlet. Whether they will be, or even ought to be, convinced by it, we cannot say.
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