Present-Day Aspect of Romanism. By the Rev. D. Macfarlane, Dingwall. Price, 1 ½ d. each; postage, ½ d. extra.
This pamphlet of 23 pages is made up of three lectures, delivered under the auspices of the Protestant Institute, Edinburgh. The first is entitled “Protestantism and Romanism Compared”; the second deals with the “Man of Sin”; and the third with the “Progress of Popery in Great Britain and the Causes thereof.” Mr. Macfarlane has treated these subjects in his usual thorough manner, and with a simplicity and lucidity that will appeal to every reader. The second lecture, on the “Man of Sin,” is a splendid piece of expository work. The lecturer takes his hearers to the description given in 2 Thes. ii., and leads them on step by step until not a shadow of doubt remains that the Pauline description points, in a pre-eminent degree, to the Church of Rome, as represented in her head, the Pope. The third lecture treats of modern movements in the Churches of England and Scotland, and will not prove palatable reading to those who regard their own denominations as well-nigh perfect. These lectures, possessing the exceptionally rare traits of lucidity and thoroughness, will prove an excellent means of educating our people, and others, as to the daring and blasphemous doctrines of Romanism.
D. B.
The Inquisition: The Reformation: The Counter-Reformation. Lectures by the Rev. John R. Mackay, M.A., Inverness. Northern Counties Publishing Company, Inverness. Price, 6d. net; postage, 1 ½ d. extra.
THESE lectures were delivered to interested audiences in Inverness, under the auspices of the Protestant Institute of Scotland. They were well described, at the time of their delivery, by the Northern Chronicle as “powerful.” Mr. Mackay has treated the subjects dealt with—the Inquisition, the Reformation, and Counter-Reformation—with the marked learning and ability one would expect of him. His treatment of the Inquisition reveals an engine, devised by Rome, of surpassing cruelty and savagery. The reading of the deeds of “the Holy office” is enough to shake forever the lingering idea that the body which used such methods, and blessed them, was a Church of Christ. The other subjects are treated in the same convincing and able manner. The last lecture gives a valuable resumé of Rome’s efforts to regain her lost power. D. B.