The Jesus of the Evangelists: His Historical Character Vindicated; or, an Examination of the Internal Evidence for our Lord's Divine Mission, with reference to Modern Controversy. By the Rev. C. A. Row, M. A. [pp. 586-612]

5S(3 LOW'8 Jesus of tite Lv an ~e1~ts. [OCTOBER,
Divine love: "God SO loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeil~ in him might not
perish, but might have everlasting litb." J)crsonal faitA in
Christ is here, as in oil~er places, clearly affirmed to be the
only bond of unity between Christ and Christians. This living faith finds its condition in Christ himself, and not in an
"idea or theory" of what is called sacramental grace.
True Protestantism,like Apostolic Christianity, goes directly
to Christ himself. A blind and superstitions reverence for
l~uu~an notions ideas, or il~eones, forms no part of the Christian system. Christ is niore to Christians ilian all the world
beside. It is ~esus himself who says: "COME UNTO ME~ ALL
YE TilAT LABOR AND ARE IlEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE
YOU REST."
A. S. Y.
ART. Y.-TAe Je5~5 ~ tlte Evangelists: Ijis historical
CJtaraeter Rn Jica ted or an Exaw
ination 0 C flC1?~a
Evidence for Our lord's i)ivine Afission, witA reference
lo Jiodern Controversy. By the Rev. C. A. Row, M. A.,
of Pembroke College, Oxford, late Ilead Master of ti~e
P~oyal Free Grammar Scl~ool, Mansfield; author of "The
Nature and Extent of Divine Inspiration," etc. Lo~don:
~Yiiliams & Norgate, 1S6S.
IT is more than two years since il~is work was published, })Ut
it is little known as yet iii this cotintry. In England it has
received the highest praise from a number of fl~e most competent judges. Dr. R. Payne Smith, in liis Bampton Lectures for
1S(39, which have only been printed a few mo'itl~s, says of it,
` For fnlness of thonght, and terseness and accuracy of reasoning, I do not know its equal. No man can read it without
being coi~vinced, I should i1nagine, not merely of our Lord's
historical existence, which is what Mr. Row nudertakes to
prove against Strauss, etc., but also of his unapproachable
perfectness~" Ai)d yet, even in England, it does not seem