Correction.—We regret that the following note was omitted from last issue:—”The writer of the sketch of Roderick Mackenzie, Achmore, Lochbroom, which appeared in the January number, desires to state that his information was defective when he stated that Roderick became a communicant under the Rev. George Macleod. Mr. Macleod urged him to take the step, but it was not until Mr. Macmillan’s time the writer now finds he actually became a communicant.”
J. R. M.
Calvin’s so-called Austerity.—Dr. Warfield, in the April number of the Princeton Theological Review in a notice of Doumergue’s work referred to above, makes the following pertinent remarks:—”The historians may not be able to feel Calvin’s heart beat, he (i.e., M. Doumergue) rejoins; everybody about him did, and something surely must be the matter with a history which sees a personage in an entirely different light from that in which he stood out to his contemporaries. If he had no heart, no
charm, how did he so seduce his contemporaries? And not content with advancing an overwhelming body of proof from Calvin’s, not companions and friends only, but his mere acquaintances, that it was precisely the heart which made the man, he passes on to show further that it was also precisely the heart that made the theologian. ‘The heart in the theology of Calvin’ is the title of the last section of the discussion, and it is shown beyond dispute that it was not to the bare intellect but to the heart that Calvin addressed himself throughout his system.”