DR. MARCUS DODS.
rTo TDB EDITOR Or TUB "SPXOTAT0101
Sit,—In your friendly notice a week ago of Dr. Marcus Dods' "Later Letters" you quote certain words of his, from which it might conceivably be argued that Dr. Dods had abandoned the Church's faith in the divinity of our Lord. The truth is far otherwise. Whatever he may have written in some transient mood of dejection or self-suspicion—induced by the burden of daily pain—Dr. Dods was to the last one of the most positive Christian thinkers of our time. Being en- grossed with problems of Christology, I repeatedly talked them over with him, sometimes for hours at a stretch, and on the main issue he was as unbending as Atha.nasius. " The self-sacrifice of God in Christ," he would say emphatically, " is the essence of the whole matter." The Unitarian position he always regarded as impossible. Some years since, in a con- fidential letter which was afterwards published, he wrote with a characteristic touch of hyperbole: " Christ is the only God
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