Sermons Preached in Manchester. By Alexander Maclaren. Third Series. (Macmillan.)—Mr.
Maclaren's reputation as a preacher is already well established, and these sermons fully support it. They have little to do, f■-,r the most part, with ecclesiastical, or oven theological controversy. It would not be easy to discover from them to what com- munion Mr. Maclaren belongs, though it is sufficiently evident that he is not a sacerdotalist. There are not even manifest indications whether he ranges himself on the side of Calvinistic or Arminian views of the divine dealings with man. Even the great bases of belief he takes for granted rather than debates. One very powerfully argued sermon there is indeed, entitled "The Witnesses of the Resurrection," in which
he states, with a force which leaves nothing to bo desired, the proof of the fact of Christ's resurrection, and points out its overwhelming practical importance ; but for the most part, he thinks and speaks as one who is addressing a believing audience. Sermons more sober and yet more forcible, and with a certain wise and practical spirituality about them, it would not be easy to find.
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