SIR WILLIAM M. RAMSAY IN NEW YORK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 9

SIR WILLIAM M. RAMSAY IN NEW YORK.

. The American " Churchman " says: "Professor Ramsay, of the University of Aberdeen, lias, just concluded the Dooms 'Foundation lectures at the "University of Now.York.- Though his chair at Aberdeen is of Latin language and Roman history, his avocation for many years has been Pauline study. Ho has travelled widely in tho track of the great -Apostle to the Gentiles, and tliero are few who could speak with greater competence on the thomo that ho ehoso: 'Tho Religion of St. Paul in Terms of the Present Day.' Tho attendance was gratifying, about 200 being present, the greater number of them ministers of'prominence. In conversation Sir William said that in Scotlaud, and ho thought also in England, and on the Continent, there was a strong tendency to return to a more conservative Christology. Ho could not name a. single extremist among tho foremost scholars of Scotland or England: Never had tho. personality and sufficiency of Christ seemed more clear, and tho personality of St. Paul a3 missionary and teacher had gained mora definite- outline also. Religious conditions in Scotland, ho thought, wcro improving. There was still some soreness between tho various- Presbyterian bodies, but in practice they were work,' nig together harmoniously, and tho pulpit at tho University chapel at Aberdeen was open to all, including tho. Episcopal Church in Scotland. Most significant of Christian movements for tho moment, he thought, was tlie effort to reconquer Asia for Christ. Tho conference at Edinburgh, ho said, marked a new era, not oiily in worlrt missions but in missionary unity. It was tho greatest conferenco ever held."