The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ame author. When the earliest writ-ings of Paul, the Epistles to the Thessalonians,are compared with his latest writings — withthe Pastoral Epistles and the Epistles to the Co-lossians and Ephesians— we not only find per-ceptible modifications of tone, but, in the latercompositions, we find also views on the scopeof the Gospel — what maybe termed the uni-versal or cosmical relations of the work of re-demption — such as do not appear in his firstproductions. As a minor peculiarity, it maybe mentioned that when he wrote to the Thes-salonians he seems to
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ame author. When the earliest writ-ings of Paul, the Epistles to the Thessalonians,are compared with his latest writings — withthe Pastoral Epistles and the Epistles to the Co-lossians and Ephesians— we not only find per-ceptible modifications of tone, but, in the latercompositions, we find also views on the scopeof the Gospel — what maybe termed the uni-versal or cosmical relations of the work of re-demption — such as do not appear in his firstproductions. As a minor peculiarity, it maybe mentioned that when he wrote to the Thes-salonians he seems to have expected to be ahvewhen the Lord should come in his Second Ad-vent, while in his latest epistles this hope or ex-pectation has passed out of his mind. As theGospel and the First Epistle of John are thelatest of the Apostolic writings, it is permissibleto regard them as the fullest and ripest state-ment of the theologic import of the Gospel. Geors-e P. Fisher. PROFESSOR JAMES BRYCE, M. P., AUTHOR OF the AMERICAN Y common consent, noEnglishman of the presentgeneration knows Americaso well, or has formed sojust and far-seeing an im-pression of her institutions,as James Bryce. His per-sonal acquaintance withthe United States is limited, notwithstanding,to three holiday visits paid to this country inthe intervals of professional activity. Mr. Brycehas many friends on both sides of the Atlantic,but, politician and author as he is, he shrinkswith unusual timidity from any personal ap-proach of the interviewer. His private life islittle known because he has declined to permitit to be observed; and in giving some smallsketch of his career we have been obliged tocontent ourselves with barren materials. Theauthor of The Holy Roman Empire andThe American Commonwealth is too mod-est to allow even his friends to persuade himthat they wish to know something of his innerHfe or of the development of his intellectualpowers. If this sketch of his career is slight,let
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