(To the Editor 'Dunedin Herald.')

Sir,—In your supplement of Saturday last there appears a production from the pen of the Rev. A. C. Gillies. It seems to be the outline of two sermons preached by him to his congregation. The [unclear: the] treated of is one of the highest importance to the Church's faith [unclear: i] the Bible, and it seems to me to be handled in a masterly manner Every intelligent reader must peruse its statements with profound admiration of the ability and scholarship displayed in it. If I mistake not, it is the very thing needed at the present day. There seems to be a widespread or general feeling that the Old Testament's teaching is superseded and a thing of the past. Statements to this effect come sometimes from the pulpit even; but one would suppose [unclear: th] when so made there must be considerable confusion in the thinking behind them. Were these two outlines filled out by Mr Gillies [unclear: (] doubtless he did to his congregation) and scattered broadcast among congregations, they would be of vast importance to faith in the Scriptures, and serve as a check to that sort of ignorant or confused [unclear: ta] so often heard or met with in print. We had very recently a specimen of it even in this town, when the Old Testament was but feebly supported by a Presbytery. At present, then, these productions of Mr Gillies are most opportune, and are, it seems to me, a magnificent vindication of the Old Testament's place and use in the Christian Church, and in the faith of Christian people.—I am, &c.,

A Reader.