Without a word, Mrs. Murray proceeded to make the poor man comfortable. She prepared a dainty breakfast and carried it in to him, and then she sat beside him while he fell into a deep sleep.

It was afternoon when Macdonald Dhu awoke and greeted her with his wonted grave courtesy.

"You are better, Mr. Macdonald," she said, brightly. "And now I will make you a fresh cup of tea;" and though he protested, she hurried out, and in a few mo-` ments brought him some tea and toast. Then, while he lay in gloomy silence, she read to him, as she had once before, from his Gaelic psalm book, without a word of comment. And then she began to tell him of all the hopes she had cherished in connection with the opening of the new church, and how that day she had felt at last the blessing had come.

“And, oh, Mr. Macdonald," she said, "I was glad to hear you cry, for then I knew that the Spirit of God was among us."

"Glad!" said Macdonald Dhu, faintly. "Yes, glad. For a cry like that never comes but when the Spirit of God moves in the heart of a man."

"Indeed, I will be thinking that He has cast me off forever," he said, wondering at this new phase of the subject.

Then you must thank Him, Mr. Macdonald, that He has not so done; and the sure proof to you is that He has brought you to cry for mercy. That is a glad cry, in the ears of the Saviour. It is the cry of the sheep in the wilderness, that discovers him to the shepherd." And then, without argument, she took him into her confidence and poured out to him all her hopes and fears for the young people of the congregation, and especially for Ranald, till Macdonald Dhu partly forgot his own fears in hers. And then, just before it was time for Kirsty to arrive from the "Question Meeting," she took her Gaelic Bible and opened at the Lord's Prayer, as she had done once before.

"It is a terrible thing to be unforgiven, Mr. Macdonald," she said, "by man or by God. And God is unwilling that any of us should feel that pain, and that is why he is so free with his offer of pardon to all who come with sorrow to him. They come with sorrow to him now, but they will come to him some day with

great joy." And then she spoke a little of the great company of the forgiven before the throne, and, at the very last, a few words about the gentle little woman who had passed out from Macdonald Dhu's sight so many years before. Then, falling on her knees, she began in the Galic,

"Our Father which art in heaven." followed, whispering the petitions after Earnestly and brokenly Macdonald Dhu her. When they came to

"Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,"

Macdonald Dhu broke forth:

"Oh, it is a little thing, whatever! It is little I have to forgive." And then, in a clear, firm voice, he repeated the words after her to the close of the prayer.

Then Mrs. Murray rose, and, taking him by the hand to bid him good-by, she said, slowly,

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For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you your trespasses.' You have forgiven, Mr. Macdonald."

"Indeed, it is nothing," he said, earnestly.

"Then," replied Mrs. Murray, “the Lord will not break his promise to you." And with that she went away.

On Saturday morning the Session met before the service for the day. In the midst of their deliberations the door opened and Macdonald Bhain and his brother Macdonald Dhu walked in and stood silent before the elders. Mr. Murray rose astonished, and, coming forward, said to Macdonald Bhain:

"What is it, Mr. Macdonald? You wish to see me?"

"I am here," he said, "for my own sake and for my brother's. We wish to make confession of our sins, in that we have not been men of love, and to seek the forgiveness of God.”

The minister stood and gazed at him in amazed silence for some moments, and then, giving his hand to Macdonald Dhu, he said, in a voice husky with emotion: "Come away, my brother. The Lord has a welcome for you."

And there were no questions that day asked in the Session before Macdonald Dhu received his token.

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HIS book is not in itself a history, but is the material for a history yet to be written. Professor Newman (recently elected President of Baylor University, Texas) has called to his aid about thirty different writers, and the result is a volume which gives us in five hundred closely printed pages a large amount of material concerning the progress of Baptists in every part of the globe during the last hundred years. Such information, put in compact form, it is not easy to acquire in case of a denomination of decentralized polity, and the book is therefore of great value to all who would study the growth of one great branch of the Christian Church. Nowhere else can the same historical material be found in the same space. Soon, let us hope, some organizing mind-why not Professor Newman himself?-will seize this mass of facts, trace events to causes, explain why the one hundred and fifty thousand Baptists of the year 1800 have become six millions in 1900, show the significance of the change from "Elder Knapp" to George Dana Boardman, and trace the relation of movements within this branch of the Church to the great movements, religious, scientific, social, and national, which have marked the nineteenth century.

The writers are commendably modest. They have a remarkable story to tell-the story of a people that were a century ago a feeble folk, numerically small, mentally acute but untrained, spiritually fervid but narrow, a people without any central authority, without a written creed, without a liturgy, yet advancing to a position numerically the second in America, in gifts to education perhaps the first, and spiritually far more sympathetic than their fathers. Yet there is here no waving of denominational banners, no adulation of great leaders or great achievements, no attempt to recount the number of chapels built in a day or the number of converts

A Century of Baptist Achievement. Edited by A. H. Newman, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Church History in McMaster University. American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.

made in a year. With the exception of the important article on the Publication Society-where the word "Society occurs forty-seven times-there is a constant subordination of instruments and apparatus to the great work of extending Christianity in the earth. The polemic element is absent, and the great controversies of the past-over such matters as denominational translations of the Bible or denominational restrictions of the Lord's Table-have obviously lost their interest, and appear here only as "burnt-out craters healed with snow." The writers evidently believe that the growth of Baptists is due chiefly to a polity in harmony with democratic ideals and institutions, and to that profound reverence for the Bible which has always characterized Baptist thought and endeavor. The first of these causes has operated powerfully in America, while in Australia, where "the whole political trend is to State Socialism and concentration of all initiative and power in the executive," the Baptists are still very weak.

But this book has the defects of its

qualities. Not only is there a necessary lack of continuity and balance in such a symposium, but there is occasionally a peculiar obliviousness to the most significant facts and tendencies. Without for a moment accepting Renan's dictum that "to write the history of a religious faith one must have believed it, but believe it no longer," we may doubt whether busy pastors and missionaries and executives can perceive the historical significance of movements they themselves are shaping. The very names of some of the ablest Baptist writers and thinkers are barely mentioned or are wholly absent. Must one stand outside of a Church in order to perceive who are its leaders? Four great university presidents in America have grown up in the Baptist denomination and profoundly affected its history during the last twenty-five years-Presidents Andrews, Harper, Schurman, and WheeiYet the writers of this book apparently know nothing of the educational

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work of Dr. Andrews, make no mention of the impetus given to Old Testament study by Dr. Harper, and have evidently never seen the writings of Dr. Schurman or Dr. Wheeler. Among "Baptist ContriAmong "Baptist Contributions to Literature' they number "Olney's series of mathematical text books" (!), but they fail to mention the work of their foremost New Testament scholar, Professor Ernest D. Burton, or of one of the most influential theologians of the present day, Professor W. N. Clarke. Historical perspective is strangely distorted when Baptist literature includes "To Have and to Hold," but excludes such interpreters of the Christian origins or the Christian faith as Clarke and Burton and Harper and Schurman. Is it true of a democratic Church, as of a democratic State, that its real leaders are seldom recognized until they are gone?

For a similar reason, probably, there is no sketch of the extraordinary work of the American Baptist Education Society. Since its founding in 1888 that Society, with one great giver and thousands of smaller contributors behind it, has done a work whose magnitude cannot yet be appreciated, but whose history would certainly be instructive and suggestive to every branch of the Christian Church.

This

We are glad to see that the book includes a succinct and well-balanced history of the Baptist Congress. organization, which owes its early success chiefly to Dr. E. H. Johnson and to Dr. Norman Foss, has been a constant missionary force within the denomination. Refusing to become the "organ" of either the radicals or the conservatives, it has steadily maintained a platform on which every shade of denominational opinion may fearlessly express itself, and has visibly set the bounds of freedom wider yet."

It has thus obtained a place and function almost as important as that of the great Foreign Missionary Union; for while the Union has propagated the faith, the Congress has made the faith increasingly worthy of propagation.

The story of the work of the Baptist Young People's Union is full of interest, while the record of the Home Mission Society in "the winning of the West" reveals a Christian statesmanship rarely equaled.

There are some happy and significant

omissions in this new church history. There are here no discussion of liturgies or creeds or vestments or candles, no heresy trials, no record of the ingenuities of ecclesiastical politics. Will it not some day be possible to write the current history of all our churches without these excrescences? But why, in this record of a hundred years, is there so little to be said of Christian philanthropy? The Baptist Year-Book mentions in America "ten homes for the aged, fifteen for the care of orphans and children, three societies for the assistance of ministers who are worn out or unable to work, and six hospitals and sanitariums." No wonder Dr. Bitting pronounces these resources "pitifully inadequate"! For a denomination which is so loyal to the New Testament, which constantly inculcates the reproduction of "the primitive faith, the primitive hope, and the primitive love," thus entirely to neglect institutions for that kind of ministration which was the characteristic work of Christ in Galilee is an anomaly which cannot much longer continue.

A similar stricture is made by President Wood when he writes of "our lack of share in the thoughtful life of our century." This is, he says, because "our spirit has led us rather into executive and administrative service." But it is impossible to lead in action for any length of time unless we lead in thinking as well. Baptists need to develop schools of thought, not opposing but supplementary. They need, in Dr. Storrs's phrase, "two wings to fly with." Under the powerful influence of the University of Chicago, which is leavening the entire ministry of the Western States, and of the Baptist Congress, which is a growing force for honest thinking, Baptists may now be expected to develop a stronger intellectual life, a higher type of periodical literature, and take that place in the progress of the world which some of their distinguished leaders have taken already. There are to-day thousands of young men in their ranks for whom the old shibboleths are meaningless, to whom the newer Biblical study has come as a glad release and spiritual inspiration, and whose ideal of Christian service is not exhausted in "contending for the faith." These men know what service their Baptist forbears rendered to

the cause of civil and religious freedom, and they are quietly resolved to enjoy the same freedom to-day. They realize that the strength of their great denomination must lie, not in its millions of adherents, not in its literalistic interpretation of

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