Recent History and the Call to Brotherhood. By W. P.
Paterson, D.D. (Blackwood. ls. net.)—The Moderator's address at the close of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has been reprinted, and deserves reading as a temperate review of the situation in Church and State. Professor Paterson suggests that, if Liberty was the watchword of the last century, Brother- hood is the ideal of this age. He points to the League of Nations, to the efforts—so far not unsuccessful—to blend the interests of employer and employed in Whitley Councils and the like, and to the remarkable movement towards the reunion of the Estab- lished Church with the United Free Church. Professor Paterson speaks of this reunion in a most hopeful strain, as if the mis- fortune of 1843 were likely to be set right in the near future. He looks to the individual congregation to work out more thoroughly the fraternal ideal, beside which the repellent idea of class war preached by Bolsheviks seems to us curiously out of date.
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