—Prof. Kelly, the noted surgeon, John Hopkin’s University, U.S.A., thus writes:—”I found long since that as I allowed the pressure of professional and worldly engagements to fill in every moment between rising and going to bed, the spirit would surely starve. So I made a rule which I have since stuck to, in spite of many temptations, not to read or study anything but my Bible after the evening meal, and never to read any other book but the Bible on the Sabbath. I do not exclude real Bible helps which always drive one back to the Bible, but I never spend time simply on devotional books. Since making this resolution, God in His mercy has shown me that His Word is an inexhaustible storehouse, from which he dispenses rich stores of precious truths to His servants as He pleases, and as they are ready to receive them.”
Headings of the Psalms.
—Scholars of the advanced modern school have long since reached as an assured result of their explorations that most of the Psalms are of a very late date. Dr Dick Wilson, in the October and January numbers of the “Princeton Theological Review,” has taken the trouble of giving a thorough examination of the Higher Critics’ arguments, with the result that their case has broken down completely before the attacks of the Princeton scholar. It is impossible in a short note like this to give even the merest summary of his convincing attack, but his concluding words may be quoted. “But of so much we can be sure, the ‘prima facie’ evidence is in favour of the headings of the Psalms, and no convincing proof to invalidate the testimony of the headings is to be derived either from the headings themselves, or from the contents of the Psalms, including the names for God found in them. In accordance, therefore, with the law of evidence, the presumption is, and must remain until evidence invalidating them is found, that the headings are trustworthy, that David wrote many of the Psalms, and may have written, so far as we know, seventy-three of them, and that Christ and the Apostles and the Church in all ages have been right in treating all of them, headings included, as a part of the infallible Word of God.” We quote these words, not because we feel the Psalms need testimony from learned men, but simply to show that where there is real learning it will be found on the side of truth, and not, like the fragmentary gatherings of the Critics, on the side of error.