*We have received the above apology from Mr. R. F. Chisholm, Editor of the Quarterly Record of the National Bible Society of Scotland.—Editor.
ATTENTION has been drawn by different friends of the Bible Society to the fact that in the recent Quarterly Record in the article of the London Missionary Society Ter-Centenary Jubilee Celebrations, the prayer offered at the grave of David Livingstone at Westminster Abbey was quoted without any word of disapproval. This has been regarded as giving support to the practice in some churches of prayers for the dead, and if so considered would be an offence to many Protestant readers.
The account was written with something of the inspiring glow of the service still present, and the writer thought of the prayer rather as a message of thanksgiving for the great Missionary Servants who had carried the Word of Truth and Light into many lands and who had long since entered into the rest which remaineth to the people of God.
In reading it over when editing the Quarterly I also only thought of it as a Thanksgiving Prayer but with the writer I would express regret that phrases in it should have caused offence to any and would assure
*We have received the above apology from Mr. R. F. Chisholm, Editor of the Quarterly Record of the National Bible Society of Scotland.—Editor.
readers who have been perplexed thereby that neither the writer of the article, nor the editor of the Quarterly would wish to be considered as surrendering anything of our great Protestant heritage in which prayers for the dead have no place.—ROBERT F. CHISHOLM, General Secretary and Editor of The Quarterly Record.