26 JUNE 1897, Page 11

The Responsibilities of God, and other Short Sermons. By the

Rev. F. F. Carmichael, LL.D. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—These fifteen sermons, occupying altogether little more than a hundred pages. are vigorous and courageous utterances. " There is no human father who would be complimented by having his children described as the vilest of the vile ; " "The dogma of endless punishment cannot face the elementary instincts of humanity or any rational idea of God,"—these are specimens of Dr. Car- michael's utterances. Sometimes, perhaps, he is a little too sweeping in his statement. "You never hear of funeral sermons being preached over poor people," he says. Is it so ? Many a country parson could tell him something very different. But the sermons, as a whole, have striking merits.