The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. By the late Robert Macpherson,
D.D. (Blackwood.)—The lectures of which this volume is composed contain the materials for a larger work, which its author did not live to finish. Taking "the Resurrection of Christ as the fundamental fact on which the whole of Christianity rests," Dr. Macpherson wished to examine the attacks which have been made on miracles with espe- cial reference to it. Some of these attacks are examined in the lectures which we have before us. Five of the lectures are devoted to a minute and searching criticism of Strauss. But, as might most naturally be expected from the form in which Dr. Macpherson's thoughts are cast, there is a want of logical sequence and development in the book as it cow stands, and while many of the arguments are complete in them- selves, the book is fragmentary. We regret this the more, from the effect, produced on us by many passages of the criticism on Strauss.
Dr. Macpherson handles Strauss's objections with such power that we would fain have seen the whole work of the same calibre. Much of it, however, is comparatively unimportant, and the style is almost always too diffuse.
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