Non-Miraculous Christianity, and Other Sermons. By George Salmon, D.D. (Macmillan.)—The
majority of these sermons are such es might be addressed to an intelligent congregation of believers. They are able and practical ; the preacher puts his point clearly, and makes it tell by his application to actual life. But the discourses which will attract most attention are those in which Professor 'Salmon deals with the controversy between atheism and belief. These are the fourth, fifth, and sixth. Of these, the first is par- ticularly able, making, as it does, a very forcible use of the conces- sions which are frequently made by unbelievers as to the benefit which the world has derived from Christianity. In the other two sermons, "Theism and Modern Science," the argument for an intelligent First Cause is very ably maintained. If Evolution is the true account of present phenomena, then this must have had a beginning ? Who or what started the evolving ?
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