Bunyan Himself as Seen in " Grace Abounding." By Alexander
-Whyte, D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 2s. 6d.)—This volume is the fourth series of "Bunyan Characters." That Dr. Whyte can write very effectively we all know, nor do we care to criticise his book in detail. On one point, however, and it is characteristic of the whole, we join issue with him. He has looked, he tells us, everywhere for a book of experiences in present-day religious literature, and has not found it. But what is it that he wants? He quotes from Bunyan :—" I grow worse and worse. My heart lays me as low as hell. I am driven as with a tempest. My inward and original pollution of heart, that, that I have to amazement. I am more loathsome to myself than a toad." He asks whether we have any book of this kind. It was Toplady, we think, who reckoned that he committed so many thousand sins every day. But is this kind of introspection whole- some? Does it tend to wholesome activities ? Shut a man up in a cell, and he may be as well employed in the reckoning of his sins as in anything else. Set him to do Christ's work in tho world, and it disqualifies hint.
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