Dr. Norman MacLeod has received, both at Glasgow, and only
yesterday in London, very gratifying and well deserved proofs of the esteem and love with which he is regarded on the eve of his proposed journey to the East. At Glasgow the meeting was quite unique in the variety of denominations which sent their clergymen to bid him farewell. Among the speakers there was the Bishop of Argyll, who made some observations very remark- able for their breadth and truth. It was not that those who met there, he said, " agreed to differ," but, on the contrary, they met round Dr. MacLeod because they were attracted by some- thing in his spirit with which they all heartily sympathized. They could all agree sufficiently to admire something in Dr. MacLeod together, though they could not go so far as agreeing sufficiently to worship God together. Clergymen needed, he said, to recast their conception of "communion," and "take a lesson from what we call the world." Dogmas could not be really true the effect of which was to separate instead of bringing together. Terms of com- munion which are, in effect, terms of excommunication must be false to Christ's meaning in saying, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." It was a worthy speech to make at a meeting in honour of Dr. MacLeod.
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