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We do not like the title; it verges on the ridiculous. The matter is excellent, edifying, and consolatory. Some of the names of God are enlarged upon as sources of encouragement and comfort. Excellent milk for babes and cordial for fainting ones.

"The Gates Ajar," critically examined | Bright Rays for Dark Days, caught by a Dean. Hatchards, Piccadilly. "GATES AJAR" seems to be in a fair way of getting its due share of criticism. We are glad to see a Dean thoroughly demolish the baseless fabric which has charmed so many vain imaginations. The critic says of " Gates Ajar,' "It is simply a second-rate sensational novel, professedly of a religious character, but betraying so much positive error, and treating serious subjects in such a flip-Life and Travels of George Whitfield. pant, unhallowed strain, that no small amount of Christian charity is required to avoid the conclusion, that an enemy hath done this!'"

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The Day of Bereavement, its Lessons
and its Consolations. By GEORGE W.
MYLNE. Nisbet & Co.

THE author attempts to give comfort
under bereavement to those who have
not found the consolations of grace, and
therefore he is by his own plan debarred
from using those strong and precious
cordials which are the solace of the
Lord's tried ones. The result is disap-
pointing, but the book may be useful.
Ready for Work: or, Hints on the Pre-
paration of Bible Lessons. By WM.
H. GROSER. Sunday School Union.
A THOROUGHLY practical book.
precepts and examples are alike excel-
lent. Superintendents should see that
it goes the round of the Teachers' Book
Society, and teachers who can afford it
should purchase a copy for themselves.
Some of the specimen lessons are of a
high order, though they are not all of
equal merit.

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Men worth Imitating; or, Brief Sketches of Noble Lives. By W. II. GROSER. Sunday School Union.

DODDRIDGE, Bellot, Caxton, Dollond, Mogridge, Bewick, Linnæus, Paley, Locke, George Wilson, Samuel Drew, Adam Clarke-rather an odd assortment for a series; but Mr. Groser gets something attractive and edifying for the youngsters out of them all, and the whole together make capital reading. The Sunday School Union is rich in possessing such a helper as Mr. Groser, who writes better each time he uses his pen. The present book is prettily bound, plentifully illustrated, and in every way to be commended.

By JAMES P. GLEDSTONE. Longman,
Green, & Co.

ONE of the fullest and best lives of this
marvellous preacher that we have ever
seen. We never tire of re-reading the
main incidents, or the fullest details of his
wonderful career. Oh, for a hundred
such to-day! We want more of his class,
and long for the time when the church
shall again be blessed with another re-
vival and the conversion of multitudes
of souls. We question if the writer
altogether understands the deep soul
anguish of a true-hearted preacher, or
fully agrees with Whitfield's Scripture
views as to the "wrath to come.”—B.
Heart Whispers, in Poems and Prose.
By A. S. ORMSBY. Yapp & Hawkins,
Welbeck Street.

A BEAUTIFUL and spiritual book. The
prose is excellent, but smells a little
good that we wish it had been only a
Plymouth-brothery: the poetry is so
little better, and then much of it would
have risen to the first degree. The
author is often very careless as to the
length of his lines and the accuracy of
his rhymes. If it were not for these
faults his versification would be far
above mediocrity.

Family Prayers for Four Weeks.
Edited by JOHN HALL, D.D., New
York. Edinburgh: Johnstone and
Hunter.

We do not believe in printed prayers,
but if people will have them, our friend,
Dr. Hall, can write as well as anybody
what nobody ought to write at all. Our
Lord has given us a noble copy to imi-
tate, and has promised us his Spirit to
help us; let us, then, try to speak with
God in such words as our heart feels
and his Spirit suggests.

My Summer in a Garden. By C. D. | WARNER. With an introduction by Henry Ward Beecher. Sampson Low.

ONE of the wittiest books of the year: full of flashing merry fancies. It will amuse the leisure hours of thousands on both sides of the Atlantic. Here is an extract upon hens and children in relation to gardens.

"I like neighbours, and I like chickens; but I do not think they ought to be united near a garden. Neighbours' hens in your garden are an annoyance. Even if they d d not scratch up the corn, and peck the strawberries, and eat the tomatoes, it is not pleasant to see them straddling about in their jerky, high-stepping, speculative manner, picking inquisitively here and there. It is of no use to tell the neighbour that his hens eat your tomatoes. It makes no impression on him, for the tomatoes are not his. The best way is to casually remark to him that he has a fine lot of chickens, pretty well grown, and that you like spring chickens broiled. He will take them away at once. The neighbours' small children are also out of place in your garden in strawberry and currant time, I hope I appreciate the value of children. We should soon come to nothing without them, though the Shakers have the best gardens in the world Without them the common school would languish. But the problem is, what to do with them in a garden. For they are not good to eat, and there is a law against making away with them. The law is not very well enforced, it is true; for people do thin them out with constant dosing, paregoric, and soothing syrups, and scanty clothing. But I for one feel that it would not be right, aside from the law, to take the life even of the smallest child, for the sake of a little fruit, more or less, in the garden. I may be wrong, but these are my sentiments, and I am not ashamed of them. When we come, as Bryant says in his 'Iliad,' to leave the circus of this life, and join that innumer

Priesteraft in some of its manifestations, past and present, dragged before the mirror of the New Testament. An outline for Lecturers. By STEPHEN SECUNDUS, Price 4d. William Freeman, 102, Fleet Street.

STEPHEN SECUNDUS will not in all probability die by stoning, he is more likely to smash others with the stones he hurls. In righteous indignation he pours contempt upon sacerdotalism wherever he finds it, whether its president resides at Rome or Canterbury. We do not agree with quite all he has to say, but as a whole it has our heartiest commendation; as an outspoken, vigorous, commonsense utterance of necessary truth. The Popery of the Anglican church has increased, is increasing, and ought to be abated.

The Gospel Church delineated from the New Testament. By HENRY WEBB. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.

WE differ so greatly from the author on many points that it would be idle to attempt a review of his work. He has evidently expended much labour and research upon it, and, therefore, those who desire to know all theories of church organisation will read this work with interest.

The Angel's Song: a Sermon preached in the Baptist Chapel, Grand Cay, Turk's Island, before the Turk's Island Lodge of Freemasons. By their Brother the elected Chaplain. W. H. Collingridge.

WE had no idea that our brother Pegg had entered the mysterious brotherhood and become chaplain to a lodge. In able caravan which moves, it will be some any case we hold him in the highest love satisfaction to us that we have never, in the and respect. As for the sermon-well, way of gardening, disposed of even the hum-it has gospel in it, and freemasonry also, blest child unnecessarily. My plan would and is a remarkable discourse in its way, be to put them into Sunday-schools more thoroughly, and to give the Sunday-schools but that way is out of the usual way of an agricultural turn, teaching the children gospel ministry. the sacredness of neighbours' vegetables. I think that our Sunday-schools do not sufficiently impress upon children the danger, from snakes and otherwise, of going into the neighbours' gardens."

The Fool's Gospel. Elliot Stock.

A VERY correct title, but we shall not exchange the doctrine of Substitution for this or any other “fool's gospel."

Man's Future in God's Word. By W.

COLLINGWOOD. Yapp and Hawkins, 70, Welbeck Street. Price 6d. THIS pamphlet is calculated to be of much service. It is a brief but able defence of the doctrine of everlasting punishment. We are glad that so many and such excellent treatises on this subject are forthcoming.

The Christian Psalmist: a collection of Tunes, Chorales, &c. Sunday School Union.

WE hear this successor to the Old Union Tune-Book very highly spoken of, but do not feel able to form a judgment till we have tried the novelities of the book in the congregation of course much is old and beyond criticism. We are very heretical in our views as to congregational singing. We confess without shame that we remember with regret the old-fashioned repeats which stirred our soul and gave us time to relish the words. How our musical friends will hold up their hands at such old-fashioned and shocking taste. The modern rattlers, which run through the tune in one rush of infantile sing-song, are all the fashion, and we are sorry they are. Old Cranbrook excites more real praise in the Tabernacle than half the churchified monotonies.

Henry's Outlines of Scripture History, Henry's Outlines of Science. By JOSEPH FERNANDEZ, LL.D. Charles Bean, 81, New North Road, Hoxton. ALL the educational books of this author are valuable, and our readers who want such works will do well to secure these useful Outlines. They are full, clear, and interesting. Already have they gained a large circulation, and they will be yet more used as they become more fully known.-B.

The Soul and its Difficulties; a Word to the Anxious. By H. W. Soltau. Yapp & Hawkins.

A LITTLE book which has no doubt been extensively useful to awakened souls. We should not handle every difficulty quite in Mr. Soltau's way, but for all this his work is one calculated to be of immense service in loosing the captives.

Memoranda.

THE Editor has now quite recovered, but | worship within those walls. It was dark, is still weak and not able to work up to his usual point. Friends will please accept this intimation and refrain from asking us to preach. As we must refuse, it will spare both them and us the time occupied in writing needless letters, if they will note this.

In the Orphanage we are greatly favoured by God in the matter of health. Only one child has had the small pox, and from other epidemics we have been free.

Our highly esteemed deacon, Mr. Thomas Cook, has fallen asleep. He was one who feared God above many; a spiritually minded, solid, and stable Christian. A severe illness which occurred to him some time ago exercised upon him a manifestly ripening influence, and he rose from his bed weak in body but strong in grace. He enjoyed constant peace; doubts were slain by full assurance, a deep calm remained within. Years ago in our younger days, this dear brother was made pre-eminently useful in the great enterprize of building the Tabernacle, and by his means great help was brought to us. His heart was wholly in the work, and that heart was a warm and gracious one. We know well the spot where this devout Deacon knelt with his Pastor, all alone, amid the 'materials of the unfinished Tabernacle to implore a blessing upon those who should

and none saw or heard the two brethren save the angels and their Lord, but who could desire a better consecration for any house of prayer than the secret pleadings of a godly man? His beloved wife is richly sustained; the Lord be very gracious to her; and his children are following in the good old way which their father loved. Farewell, brother beloved, the Lord fill up the gap thy departure has made.

Mr. Blewett, of Westbury Leigh, would be glad to remove to another sphere. He is a worthy brother, and we recommend vacant churches to write to him.

We have received most pleasing tidings from our late student, Mr. W. McKinney, who has accepted a pastorate in the United States, with most encouraging prospects.

A goodly company of young men have been received into the College this term, and more have the promise of admission in October, if the Lord will. We ask earnest prayer that all these men may become faithful and useful ministers of the cross of Christ.

Our friend, Mr. Hillier, of South Shields, we beg his pardon, Dr. Hillier, for he is a Doctor of Music and deserves the title, for he is a sort of condensed band of music, opened his new Tabernacle on July 23rd, with sermons, and on the following Monday with a public meeting. A noble array of

tive choir made the public meeting a lively one. We trust our friend will receive abundant aid from all in the north who love earnest gospel preaching.

speakers, an earnest company, and an effec- | that place. At the afternoon service Mr. Lloyd, of Thaxted, presided. Mr. S. Kor ton, of Linton, read the Scriptures and prayed. Mr. Cowell, one of the deacons, gave a statement on behalf of the church, which was followed by a staten ent from the pastor. Mr. Rook, of Thaxted, offered prayer. Mr. Rogers, of the Tabernacle College, gave an address to the pastor, and Mr. T. D. Marshall to the church. After tea in a large barn decorated for the occasion and numerously attended, the services were resumed in the chapel; Mr. Rogers presided. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Rook, of Thaxted; Mr. Collins, of Finchingfield; Mr. Korton, of Linton; Mr. T. T. Dunn, of London; Mr. F. Norman, of Castle Camps; and Mr. Layzell. The services. it may be hoped, will long be remembered for good.

Services have recently been held in connection with the public recognition of Mr. P. J. Ward, from the Pastors' College, as pastor of the Baptist Church in Mermaid Street, Rye, Sussex. Two sermons were preached on Sunday, July 23rd, by Mr. Rogers. In the afternoon of the next day, Mr. Wright, of Brabourne, read the Scriptures and prayed. Mr. F. Mitchell, a deacon of the church, related the circumstances that led to the invitation of Mr. Ward to the pastorate. Mr. Ward then gave a statement upon the usual topics. Mr. Clarke, of Ashford, offered prayer. An address was then given by Mr. Rogers to the pastor. After tea, Mr. Rogers presided and gave an address to the church. Congratulatory addresses were then given by Mr. Samson and Mr. Jenkyn, Independent ministers of the town; Mr. Wood, of Sandhurst; Mr. Clarke, of Ashford; Mr. Wright, and Mr. Baker. The church and congregation have been much revived since Mr. Ward's brief labours among them. Much good has been done, especially among the young.

On Wednesday, July 26th, services were held at Ashdon, near Walden, in Essex, to commemorate the settlement of Mr. R. Layzell, as pastor of the Baptist Church in

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A Bazaar will be held in the new Paptist Chapel (now in course of erection), opposite Loughborough Park Station, Brixton, on September 5th, 6th, and 7th, in aid of the Building Fund. Contributions in money, or articles for sale, will be thankfully received by the Pastor, George Kew, 19, Clifton Terrace, Herne Hill, S.E. [We were requested to insert the above and do so very gladly. Mr. Kew is of our College, is an earnest brother, and both deserves and needs immediate help ]

Baptisms at Metropolitan Tabernacle, by Mr. J. A. Spurgeon, Aug. 3rd-fifteen.

Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Statement of Receipts from July 20th, 1871, to August 19th, 1871.

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The Misses Dransfield

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Mr. J. Atkinson

Miss Adair

Mrs. Baker

Mr. W. Taylor

A Friend, per Rev. J. Lang
Mr. Calvert

Collected by Miss Jephs

Three Young Editors

Mr. G. H. Mason

Mrs. G. Brown

Mr. George Dean

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Collections at Lake Road Chapel, Land-
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Stockwell Orphanage.

Statement of Receipts from July 20th, to August 19th, 1871.

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Presents for the Orphanage.-25 Reading Books, Dr. Unwin; 8 Shirts, Sarah; 100 Pairs of Socks, Misses Bourdon Sanderson; 6 School Desks, Mr. Higgs; 6 Tin Cans, Mr. Vickery; 3 Sacks of Broad Beans, Mr. Woodnutt.

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