I. — The views propounded by Dr. Briggs in his Inaugural are

not new.
They have all been stated by him in one or another of his published works, in articles in the Presbyterian Review, dur- ing his ten years' editorship, and in more recent contribu- tions to other periodicals. Moreover, for the past ten years, Dr. Briggs has been teaching Biblical Theology in the Seminary, and has been expounding to successive classes of students the statements for which he is now arraigned. The present excitement is, as we believe, due, largely, to the tone of the Inaugural Address, to certain unguarded expressions, and to an impression that the transfer of the author to the Chair of Biblical Theology would be subject to the veto of the General Assembly.