The Central Presbyterian

Principal Fairbairn of Oxford spent the first two weeks of January in New York, where he delivered the third course of Deems Lectures at the New York University, on the theme, "The Religion of Jesus Christ." We quote some of the statements made in an interview by the venerable and eminent Nonconformist: "The tremendous haste of American life tends to give little chance for solidity of thought or strength of conviction. An unreal knowledge that passes for scholarship in some evangelical quarters is a more undesirable and mischievous ignorance than that of untrained and unlearned evangelism. The extraordinary growth of institutional churches and settlements is a sign of the awakening of the churches to their fuller responsibility and opportunity. The Nonconformists are well pleased with the new Liberal cabinet. It is noted for ability and character far beyond its predecessors; and in this respect responds to the demand of the conscience of the great classes represented in the Free Churches."