We omitted to mention last week that the General Assembly
of the Free Church of Scotland passed, by a majority of 155(392 to 237), the resolution which virtually declined to censure Dr. Bruce for using language concerning the life and ministry of our Lord inconsistent with the standards of the Westminster Confession. From the little we know of Dr. Bruce's works, we do not doubt that his mind is thoroughly and profoundly Christian in its convictions, and though this does not by any means imply that it is in perfect harmony with the West- minster Confession, yet, at a time when the Free Kirk is seriously considering the policy of revising that Confession, it would be almost absurd to censure for heterodoxy any devia- tion from those narrow and, to our mind, highly unreasonable, not to say now impossible, formulae.
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