Show HERESY HUNTING la in the defense of professor henry drummond by local readers of his hie great gre at works on natural law in the spiritual world and the greatest thing on earth and the he expression of sympathy that BO 80 good and pure a thinker should be hunted bunted down and branded as a heretic by narrow members of his bin church they have curiously failed to inform themselves as aa to what the nature of prof drummonds drummond alleged heresy actually la is surely it II anything to ID the te two works named could be construed an aa anti calvinistic then much the worse for calvinism for 0 go o the bigotry of those hose who could find 8 ad fault with the ideas adva advanced ced and prosecute their author for as one admirer says exye those books abound in ID faith and hope and charity in the do doctrine ottille of light and life and comfort and peace and are devoid of threaten ings and terrors and torments and darkness their style Is IB simple yet strong the whole treatment of the case is ii exalted and beautiful iut gut unfortunately for the critics of prof Drummond Drummo odB 19 persecutors are not the works for which he is ia to be called in question another notable book loss baa emanated from his study siad and forsooth forno otti it bears that very suggestive sugg etive and nd precarious title 1419 the ascent of man 0 1 we believe it will be ge generally agreed that most of those who have written on 00 that subject have necessarily come into collision with a fundamental ides idea of christianity no matter atter what its sect meet or creed As we understand it prof drummond Is in not so an excePt exception IOD to this rule he not only crept the darwinian theory as such but bug when he finds it insufficient to account fox for various moral phenomena be bego goes Balong a long stop step further than OVOD even that iconoclastic scientist an understanding of these facts to ie necessary ne aBary to an intelligent criticism ot of th the action ot of the scottish church in marking mar king the professor prof buor for its prey P there them to 18 nothing very intolerant or surprising about their conduct on the contrary they could hardly have bava dooe done anything else under the circumstances ler cr advanced thought thought when it elm hub bee with recognized dogs espe epe when the latter laiter iq i of prime and importance and la Is ad ada by a lep landing iding light of the church cannot be pawed passed by without comment |