The Pastor of T'liethuizen. By E. J. Diest Lorgion, D.D.,
Minister of the Gospel at Groningen. (Cape Town.)—This a translation of a Dutch work, executed by a resident at the Cape of Good Hope, who belongs to "a church which has been systematically maligned and reviled by the champions of would-be orthodoxy in this colony." The object of the original book, which is in the form of a number of con- versations between a clergyman and some of his parishioners, is to show that the approach to agreement in the interpretation of Scripture which the authors of Essays and Reviews congratulated the German theo- logians on having attained, is also to be found among that body of Dutch divines who are commonly known as the Groningen schooL It discusses three points of Christian doctrine—the Trinity, the Atonement, and the verbal infallibility of Scripture, all of which the Groningen school agrees in regarding as unscripturaL If this intima- tion of the nature of Dr. Lorgion's book excites the reader's curiosity, he is quite weleome to gratify it. As for us, we have quite enough to do at home to prevent us from feeling the slightest inclination to dabble in the troubled waters of Dutch theology.
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