WORDS FROM ST. PAUL'S.
[To PHE EDITOR 0/1 THE "SPECTATOR.") SD1,—Let me thank you sincerely for your kind notice in the Spectator of October 5th of my St. Paul's sermons of 1899. It will not take much space if you will allow me to supplement it by saying that the mention of St. Augustine's belief in verbal inspiration was part of an argument to show the difference which all the Fathers made between their own .writings and those of Holy Scripture. "If you ask, what about the early Church after the time of the Apostles ? Did they treat the writings of the Apostles with the same reverence with which Christ and the Apostles had treated the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament ? The answer is the same. Nothing is more remarkable than the consciousness which the Fathers who succeeded the Apostles show of the immeasurably superior authority of the inspired writings." With regard to the nature a inspiration; the general view is indicated in the following words : "From stage to stage tie revelation came from the Divine Spirit, speaking through human minds, and human hands, and ordinary human affairs, through the history of an inspired race rather than as a series of isolated oracles philosophically systematic; manifest. bag itself in different ways and through different intelligences, but with one purpose, am, Sir, &c.,
WILLIAM SINCLAIR.
The Chapter House, St. Paul's Cathedral, E.C.
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