Aids to Prayer. By Daniel Moore, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—This volume- contains
a course of six Lent lectures on the subject of prayer delivered in the Church of which Mr. Moore is the incumbent. They are, on the whole, able discourses, and maintain the very considerable reputation which their author has attained as a preacher. He has certainly acted with prudence in avoiding the metaphysical difficulties which beset his sub- ject; and he can allege with truth that such questions are not suited to a mixed audience. Yet the problem as to the relation between human agency and the Divine will is one which must present itself in some shape even to the less inquiring order of minds, and though it cannot be solved, it admits of a partial explanation. We notice hints in Mr. Moore's volume from which such an explanation may be deduced, but we would have gladly seen it more explicitly stated. We should say that the most theologically valuable of the six is the last, on "Christ our Example in Prayer." Mr. Moore's style is ornate and rhetorical, but not more so, we think, than befits the eloquence of the pulpit. Occasionally, we think, his good taste nods. What is the meaning of "the grey hairs watered with all dews but the dews of heaven "?
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