Professor James Moffatt.—This scholar of strong Modernistic tendencies has been paying a visit to his native country. When he left Scotland some years ago to fill a theological chair in New York we had hoped that he had left it for his country’s spiritual good but from a recent sermon in Oban there does not seem to be any improvement in his spiritual outlook. In a brief summary of his sermon as reported in the Oban Times (6th August) he is reported as basing his argument “upon the superstition of the woman with the issue of blood and per contra on the rationalism (though he, the speaker, did not care for the term) of Jairus, the ruler.” This poor woman, if alive to-day, when modernistic divines designate her act of faith as superstition might well say that they are worse than the physicians in her own day from whom she suffered much. We think it a bit daring on the part of any man, however great his claims may be as a scholar, to characterise as superstition what our Divine Lord credits as an act of faith—”Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go, in peace, and be whole of thy plague.” We have a record of this miracle in the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and Luke and in each of them our Lord acknowledges the woman’s faith.
War Office and Rifle Practice on Sabbath.—At a recent meeting of Irvine Town Council a letter was read from Lieut.-Col. F. C. R. Moore, M.P., for the Ayr Burghs, in which he said he had written the War Office at the request of the Council strongly protesting against shooting at the ranges on the Sabbath. The War Office replied that it was quite impossible to give up the practice as the only days on which the Territorials “could fire their training course were Saturdays and Sundays and many of the men were unable to get away from their business on Saturdays.” O Necessity what sins have been and are being committed in thy name! No wonder things are going wrong in the high councils of the nation when there are such men at the War Office and in other departments of the State who have no more respect for God’s Day than pagans.
“Sermons of Noted Ministers of the Northern Highlands.”—We have had returned to us over twenty unsold copies of the above. The book is now out of print and those who wish to procure a copy can have same by applying to the Editor. The book contains excellent sermons of some of the greatest preachers of the Northern Highlands. The price of the book is 2s. 6d., post free, which is exceptional value.