Church a long- way in the rear." The scholars are
not much interested in missions ; the friends of missions view the scholars with suspicion. This is the situation to which Dr. Horton addresses himself. He shows that the results of criticism do not take away from the Bible its character as the message of God to man. The Book of Daniel, for instance, is assigned to the second century B.C. rather than to the sixth, but it is not the less a part of the orderly development of the divine revelation. Dr. Horton takes the principal books of the Old and New Testa- ment one by one, and after compendiously stating the corrections which criticism has made in the popular views of them, shows how the "missionary character" is to be seen in them. If the writer does not directly prepare the missionary for the difficult task of presenting "a Revised Bible," which must yet be faced by him when he has to deliver his message to cultivated hearers, yet he certainly helps him in preparing himself. The obscurantism which seeks to ignore-critical results is bound to lead to disaster.
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