Blessed are Ye: Talks on the Beatitudes. By F. B.
Meyer. (S.S.U.)—Many are the books on the Beatitudes. We do wish that some one would and could publish an abbreviated edition, omitting the irrelevances of an exuberant mind and the technical Romanisms, of Henry Coleridge. This, and lately Canon Gores "Sermon on the Mount," would seem to make other practice meditations rather colourless and superfluous. Yet we are quite sure that this devout and earnest book would give great pleasure to quiet readers for themselves and be suggestive to those who have to teach others. We especially like the treatment of "Blessed are the Peacemakers," for, as Mr. Meyer says," Men do not believe in one man's talk or in the other man's profession, but they do believe in a quiet holy endeavour to make and keep peace. It is easy to recognise this godlike virtue of peace, because the world has so little of it."
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