1 FEBRUARY 1868, Page 22

The Daily Prayer - Book for the Use of Families. By Robert

Vaughan, D.D. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—In this book prayers for twelve weeks are given, each day's portion beginning with a passage of the Bible, and the prayers for the day being more or less suggested by what goes before them. Dr. Vaughan professes to have taken pains to make his work useful, and is very desirous that it may find acceptance. Whether it will be used by others than those who accept the theory on which it is based may seem doubtful. We cannot think that the book is altogether free from the charge of lecturing the Almighty. For instance, "Make Thy truth more powerful where it is. Send it speedily where it is not. The ends of the earth do see Thy salvation. Constrain them to embrace it."