Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill.—This Bill, we regret to see, has passed the second reading in the House of Lords and is likely to become law,—an event which we can only regard as a calamity. The license this Bill is fitted to give will deeply affect the purity of family life in the country.
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Left-hand Defections and Right-hand Extremes.—
This is one of the significant and pregnant phrases often used by Patrick Walker in his Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden, and the following may be quoted as illustrating what he means by “right-hand extremes.” “I know that unhappy argument,” he says, “that has done so much unspeakable hurt in all the backsliding times of this Church. Together with divisions, especially the many right-hand extremes, have also done much hurt to these few Non-Jurants, viz.:—’That many of these swearing ministers, i.e., those who took the Abjuration Oath, are good men, and, therefore, cannot withdraw from them.’ But whatever be their goodness, this is no part of it; and the better they are, it aggravates their guilt in the departing so far out of the way, causing so many to stumble, and made themselves so contemptible and base in the eyes of many of their most serious, zealous people; their empty kirks, these years past, through many places of Scotland can witness this; and if they get not a cast by common, it may be with them as it has been with great and good men who have had a gloomy evening, and their sun setting under a cloud with them. What famous Mr. Rutherford said to David Dickson, who shined bright in his young days, but in his old age was one of the ministers of Edinburgh, and took part with the Public Resolutioners, ‘Davie, Davie, ye’ll shine in heaven, but no more on earth.'”
We have received for review a volume, “The Psalms in Worship,” from the United Presbyterian Board of Publication, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.