Some Reasons of Our Christian Hope. The Hulsean Lectures for
1875. By E. T. Vaughan, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—This little volume is of much more value than its very modest and unpretending preface would lead one to suppose. The "reasons of our Christian hope " which Mr. Vaughan brings forward are urged with great modera- tion, but with real force. The difficulty, for example, which those critics create who would make the New Testament history the invention of a generation which lived in the first half of the second century is well brought out by this writer. " If any other than the Christian theory of the origin of the Christian Church and its Scriptures is to be accepted, it must be one which shall make the pigmies the creators of the giants.
The early half of the second century was entirely incapable of inventing either the character of Christ, or the New Testament his- tory of the Apostolic age." This is proved from the unquestioned existing remains of that epoch. This book is one not intended merely for students, but rather for ordinary readers, and will be found by them intelligible, interesting, and edifying.
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