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leave this wicked world. Come and take mother too, and make her fit to die. Amen.' The tears trickled down the mother's cheeks as the child, turning round, said, 'Tell the man to bring me a larger coffin, and tell teacher next Sunday that I am gone to heaven along with Sally.' In the night she was taken ill, and on the following day died, singing:

"I love Jesus, Hallelujah!

Jesus smiles and loves me too.'

"From the day of the child's death the mother became an altered character; she gave up drinking and swearing, and now she rejoices in her Saviour. Reader, art thou a Christian? and if thou art, canst thou not do something for thy Lord? Will he not stretch out his arm to nerve thine, if thou art willing to serve him?"

Reviews.

with much effect by many of our gallant soldiers. The number of authorities quoted, and the extent of reading displayed is prodigious. It is an exhaustive work, and must have taxed the author's time and patience in a way that a sense of duty could alone have enabled him to sustain. All the trouble and pains, however, will yield ample return in the treasure of quotations and arguments brought under the hand of readers them will be the harvest so patiently anxious to be guided in the matter. To Sown by the writer. It is by far the most able book we know, and will be the standard work on the subject for years to come.-B.

Biblical Commentary on the Psalms. | artillery, and we hope to see it fired off By FRANZ DELITZSCH, D.D., Professor of Old and New Testament Exegesis, Leipsic. T. & T. Clarke. WE hasten to announce the issue of this learned exposition. We cannot just now give lengthened notice. We do not look into these two volumes for spiritual savour, but for scholarly criticism, and we are not disappointed. No one who wishes to study the original text can afford to neglect Delitzsch. A Suggestive Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans; with Critical and Homiletical Notes. By Rev. THOMAS ROBINSON. Dickinson, Farringdon St. THIS is another volume of the Van Doren series, and like its predecessors will prove of great value to men with small libraries, since it gives them the cream of all the great expositors in a small compass. We hail the multiplication of such works as one of the best signs of the times.

Sermons and Lectures.

By the late
Edinburgh:

WILLIAM M'COMBIE. T. & T. Clarke. and addresses by a member of the BapA SERIES of very thoughtful discourses tist Church, John Street, Aberdeen. In Subjects of Baptism. By R. INGHAM. some points the theology is not our own, E. Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. but the tone is good; and the congreA SECOND Volume of the Handbook on gation, which in the absence of a regular Christian Baptism, and worthy of the minister was able to secure so efficient former, which we heartily commended a supply was fortunate indeed. some time ago. Mr. Ingham has a keen editor of the Aberdeen Free Press, the eye for every point in this question of author wielded a vigorous pen; and obedience to our Lord's command, as as a lecturer he was esteemed for sober opposed to the traditions of men; and thought and breadth of ideas. Would when the coming time shall have arrived, that we had in all our churches many this book will play no small part in help-men of like power to help in a departing on that inevitable spread of our ment of Christian work which needs views which an awakened church will more and more the attention of the surely exhibit. This is a huge piece of church.-B.

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The Problem of Evil. By ERNEST NAVILLE. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clarke. SEVEN lectures, delivered at Lausanne, and also at Geneva, before very large audiences. The author has earned a name throughout the Continent as an eloquent expositor of philosophy in popular forms. We hardly expected to find any solution to this much perplexed problem, and we are not disappointed. So far as we can gather of the author's meaning through the translation under review, he confounds the occasion with the cause, and thinks that evil arose because it was possible to man, and man made the possible actual by not resisting it long enough to make it impossible. One paragraph will suffice to present the theory, which is certainly as unphilosophical a one as we could well conceive:-"Setting out from a state in which Evil was simply possible, that is to say, of innocence, it had by the effort of a free creature resisting this possible Evil, to put an end to the possibility itself, in order to arrive at the state of perfection, or of holiness, a state which derives its character from the fact that liberty has devoted itself to Good; such was to be the development of virtue. If the will does every moment what it ought, it obtains at last a decisive victory over the possibility of Evil. Evil has not appeared, without ever having been destroyed, it has become impossible, because it has never actually existed." Rubbish!-B.

The Jewish Temple and the Christian
Church. By R. W. DALE, M.A.
Hodder & Stoughton, 27, Paternoster
Row.

A SECOND edition of a very able book.
Both the author and his work are

known to many of our readers, and to be
known in their case is to be esteemed.
We have perused this series of sermons
on the Epistle to the Hebrews with
much interest: designed not for scho-
lars, but for ordinary readers, they
nevertheless furnish evidence of much
biblical knowledge, and will serve as a
commentary upon an epistle full of
types and Jewish symbols.
Martin the Weaver; or, the Power of
Gold. From the French. By Mrs.
C. OVEREND. Edinburgh: William
Oliphant & Co.

A SILESIAN narrative, admirably illus
trating the power of gold to harden the
heart. The poor weaver is indignant at
the harshness of his employer, and yet
when he himself becomes a master, he
practises precisely the same oppression
on the very workmen who were once his
comrades in toil.

Quiet Hours.

By JOHN PULSFORD.
Hamilton, Adams, & Co.
THIS volume comprises in one the two
series heretofore known under the same
title. We welcome an old friend again,
with whom we have had quiet hours
before, followed by thoughtful ones as
the result. Few books stir up and sug-
gest more fresh ideas than the one we
If you dis-
agree with the author, you are helped
to some fresh light, though it may be in
an opposite direction to that intended
by the writer. It is a treat to pass a
quiet hour with this book, and we ad-
vise our more advanced readers, who:
have had their senses exercised to dis-
cern between good and evil, to try it at
the earliest opportunity.-B.

The Pearl of Story Books. T. Nelson & now pass under review.
Sons, Paternoster Row.

SELECTIONS from the Bible, arranged in
order and in the language of Scripture:
such is this book; and if it had been
properly labelled, we should have re-
joiced to see it; but the title is apt to
mislead, and we should scarcely like to
disappoint a young friend by giving it
to him. We deem a Bible to be one
of the most interesting books for
young
people, and, as such, would gladly see
one in the possession of all; and we
have no objection to give it the title at
the head of our notice; but to cull por-
tions, and claim for that selection so
pre-eminent a name, is not, in our judg-
ment, a wise or straightforward thing.
-B.

Eternal Life set forth: being a complete
Series of the Christian Mission Tracts.
Edinburgh: Johnston & Co. Lon-
don Partridge.

ONE of the best series of little tracts we
have ever come across; they have our
hearty commendation. They ought to
be scattered "thick as leaves in Val-
lambrosa."

The Temperance Manual.

By Rev. | best of their class.

JUSTIN EDWARDS, D.D. Partridge. WE suppose abstaining friends will consider this to be a forcible, temperate, and convincing production. We do not agree with them. In the most vehement denunciation of drunkenness we are ready earnestly to unite; but we cannot agree to condemn estimable and holy men by asserting that all who use alcoholic beverages are aiding in increasing the wickedness, augmenting the guilt, and perpetuating the wretchedmess of their fellow men." Such a censure would have included in its sweep one whom we call " Master and Lord."

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Three Score and Ten; a Memorial of the late Albert Barnes. Hamilton, Adams & Co.

WHY not give the good man a well

carved monumental stone? This is only a cairn-a heap of stones thrown together any how. Here is first a sketch-a mere sketch of Barnes's character, by his friend Dr. March; then follow eighty-five pages of sermon, by the departed himself; and then an account of his funeral and the transactions by which his congregation and session expressed their esteem. We submit, that although all this is very well, it is not up to the mark as a memorial of the

world-renowned commentator.

Things New and Old, relative to Life; being Sermons on Different Subjects. By T. H. Hodder & Stoughton. THESE are not at all commonplace discourses, but are evidently the productions of a thoughtful and independent mind; yet we do not think them adapted for very wide usefulness, for we do not discern in them the unction which endears gospel ministry. The author is evidently a man of great ability; we should like to meet with him when nearer to the cross.

Rills from the Fountain of Life; or, Sermons to Children. By Rev. R. NEWTON, D.D. Partridge & Co. DR. NEWTON is quite another person from the pretender to healing powers, who shocked us all so much last year. This Dr. Newton has a special gift with children, and his books are among the

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His sermon to children at the Tabernacle was a failure, because very few could hear more than a word here and there; but with an ordinary-sized audience he is powerful; and in a book he is, as Dr. Fletcher once was, the prince of preachers to the young.

John Wesley: his Life and his Works. By the Rev. MATTHEW LEFEVRE. Wesleyan Conference Office, 66, Paternoster Row.

THIS life, in the French language, gained the prize offered by the French Conference of Wesleyan Methodists for a biography of the great founder of Methodism divine. In its English form it is very readable, and will secure a large sale. John Wesley is in a fair way of having his life-story widely known. So much the better. Where could we find his equal?

The Evangelist's Hymn Book. Price 3d. Yapp & Hawkins, Welbeck Street. "AND still they come." Hymn books big and hymn books little, hymn books for the Church, and hymn books for Dissent-have we not yet enough? "The Evangelist's Hymn Book" is a very excellent, cheap, and useful collection.

The Great Social Evil: its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies. By WILLIAM LOGAN. Hodder and Stoughton.

A CHAMBER of horrors: a collection of terrible facts and utterances upon a hideous subject. We confess we do not see the particular good of such a book, or of our noticing it; it looks rather like plucking the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Perhaps, however, here and there a labourer in the field of reformation may be stimulated by seeing how dreadful is the evil with which he is called to struggle. The School Board Guide and Teacher's Manual: containing the Elementary Education Act, 1870; the New Code, 1871; &c. By THOMAS PRESTON. Hamilton, Adams, & Co.

A VERY useful two shillings' worth, exceedingly handy for those who take a practical part in the working of the New Act.

Dr. Cornwell's Spelling for Begin- | is a wild waste of deluge, covered with ners, and Poetry for Beginners, both to be loathsomeness, hidden by a darkness had of Simpkin & Marshall, are capital which may be felt. We hope that school-books. The poetry consists of Messrs. Clarke will be well repaid for pieces fitted for children's reading, and the service they have done the church in the spelling-book words which have in disinterring the fossils of those former the same vowel are formed into groups, times, which certainly were not better with an obviously instructive design. than those in which we now live.-B. If boys and girls do not learn rapidly Memoir of Isabella Macfarlane, of Strathbraan. By the Rev. D. SHAW, Free Church Minister, of Laggan, Dumfriesshire. Edinburgh: John Maclaren.

from such excellent books we would not give a pin for them.

Life's True Beatitude; or, Who is Wise? a Poem. By the Rev. J. C. Bass. Wesleyan Book Room, 66, Paternoster Row.

THE memorial of a true daughter of The Great King. The Highlands of Scotland possess within their glens and straths jewels very precious to the Lord of angels, and Isabella Macfarlane was one of them. A deep, experimental Poems.nently practical and zealous. It was godliness was hers, and yet it was emi

HOLY sentiments expressed in verse. The printer, publisher, and binder have done their part remarkably well. Our copy is fit to present to a nobleman. The Creation, and other Original

Sacred and Secular. By EBENEZER
BURR. J. Snow & Co.
As these poems were published by
subscription, and among the subscribers
we observe the names of Thomas
Binney, Charles Reed, and others, whose
judgment stands for much, it is not
needful for us to venture upon a criti-
cism. The pieces are marked by a
reverent treatment of things sacred, and
a cheerful handling of things secular.
The versification is pleasing, and the
author's aim is to do good. Some of the
hymns are of such quality, that we could
have wished for more, while certain
trifling rhymes might well have been
omitted.

Anti-Nicene Library. Volumes XIX.
and XX. Edinburgh: T. & T.
Clarke.
Two more volumes of this well got up
and admirable series. We question if
any shelf in our library has half the
rubbish upon it that could be hunted up
in the works of these venerated Fathers.
We have conscientiously read the books
as they have appeared, and we bless
God that if they were not valuable for
their age, they would be worthless for
any practical purpose now. As it is, they
are a capital fence to keep men shut up
to the Scriptures for a rule of faith. If
we are prepared to leave the Bible and
take tradition as our guide we can
clearly see from this series that there is
no rest for the sole of our foot; for all

meet that some record of such a woman
should be preserved.
Granny's Groans. Price 6d.

and Sons.

Jarrold

WE have a good deal of sympathy with Granny; he groans well, and we hope he will groan again. We suppose he meant to be a female Granny, but the fact of his being the male bird peeps out in a place or two very amusingly. The groans groan at the modern fashion of spoiling boys and girls, and at the Braddonizing of our young women. Herein is enough to make any man or woman groan, whether granny or not. Title-deeds of the Church of England to her Parochial Endowments. By EDWARD MIALL, M.P. Second Edition. Elliot Stock.

We hope that all our more intelligent Nonconformist brethren will master the contents of this important work, whose re-issue is most opportune. We have a severe struggle before us, which we must face like men, and it well becomes us to be fully armed for the fray. To be well acquainted with all the bearings of the great question of ecclesiastical endowments will be one of the best preparations for the controversy. Mr. Miall is so singularly cool and judicious, both as a speaker and writer, that he is always to be relied on, and the information which he gives may be used with confidence.

Memoranda.

To all enquiring friends we beg to say that we hope we are really better, though still very feeble. We have taken one service of each Sabbath in the past month. Though greatly pressed to rest, to travel, to take a voyage to Australia, to go to a Hydropathic Institution, to make a trip to America, to visit Switzerland, to stay in Scotland, to try Buxton, Bournemouth, Scarborough, etc., etc., we feel it our duty to begin work gently and prudently, little by little, but still to begin. Thanks, therefore, very hearty thanks, but we must decline anything but duty just now.

A beloved friend, who desires to be unknown, has sent £500 towards our College Buildings, to celebrate the publication of Sermon, No. 1,000. A thousand blessings rest on that generous heart! Our esteemed brother, Mr. Ness, who is we fear very ill, also sends £10 for the same reason and object; and another kind friend sends his guinea, with the proposal that a thousand readers of the Sermons should do the same.

Again, thanks to all. We need College Buildings, because the rooms under the Tabernacle are very dark, being more and more surrounded by other erections, which diminish the light. We have to burn gas nearly all the year round, all day long, and this renders the rooms unhealthy. Besides, all our classes and other meetings increase, and ought to increase, but our space is limited. We feel we are not about to enter on a needless but absolutely necessary work, and we look up for help.

The first boy who has left the Orphanage to be settled in life, set out for Redditch July 25th. May he turn out well, and be the pioneer of many more. We shall in a few months need more openings for the lads. We thank the Christian sister who remembered us in this first case.

The Orphanage boys had a grand excursion to the farm of our friend, Mr. Priest, at Lower Morden. A kind friend took them all in his vans. Mr. Tebbutt, and other kind friends at Melton Mowbray, sent 180 pork pies, of half a pound each, for the boys' dinner, and many others sent other stores. The President was able to look on for an hour, and see the dear lads at their sports. A band of parish boys, from the Lambeth Industrial School, enjoyed the day with the orphans, and discoursed sweet music at intervals. All expenses were met from extra gifts.

The Orphanage funds will soon need replenishing. On the Sabbath upon which C. H. Spurgeon preached his thousandth

printed sermon, the love of the congregation was shown by the spontaneous offering of £130. There was no collection. It was a loving, free-will gift to the College. Such actions prove the affection of our ever generous people.

We hope to make a decided step very soon towards erecting a chapel for Streatham. We only wait for a site, and hope to find that very soon.

The friends at Angel Town, Brixton, with Mr. Kew, are, we hear, putting up an iron chapel near Loughborough Road Station.

We undertook, on behalf of the London Baptist Association, to carry out the erection of a chapel in the Wandsworth Road. Our illness has delayed the work, but as soon as we can obtain the land we hope to see the builders at work. The Association finds £1,000, and we should like to spend £2,000, in order that there may be no debt. We are thankful that we have already received some help. Our dear dying brother and deacon, Mr. Cook, has sent £5: Mrs. Kelsall, of Rochdale, £50; and we have a few small sums. We will not say that this is but a small part of the whole, but that it is a first instalment. Our crowded city needs hundreds of earnest preachers, and these must have houses to preach in.

The walls of a new chapel in Cornwall Road, Brixton, for the use of our friend Mr. Asquith, are rapidly rising. The princely liberality of a brother in Christ carries out this good work. The Lord reward him.

The recognition of Mr. George Knight, from the Pastors' College, as pastor of the Baptist Church at Lowestoft, has recently been held under very favourable circumstances. On Sunday, July 9th, two sermons wer preached by Mr. G. Rogers. On the following Tuesday, after a public Tea meeting, in the School-room, Mr. Rogers presided at a public Service in the chapel. Mr. J. Sage offered prayer; Mr. J. B. Blackmore, a retired pastor of the church, stated the circumstances which had led to the invitation of Mr. Knight to the pastorate. Mr. Knight then gave an account of his conversion to God, his call to the ministry, his reasons for accepting the call from that church, and his views of the fundamental doctrines of the gospel. The ordination prayer was offered by Mr. C. Daniel, of Somerleyton. The charge to the pastor was given by Mr. Rogers; and a charge to the church by Mr. J. Vincent, of Yarmouth. Mr. Welton, of Thetford, and Mr. Swindell, of Lowestoft, also took part in the service. The attendance was

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