The Spirit of Watchfulness, and other Sermons. By T. T.
Carter, M.A. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—Where the preacher is hortatory and devotional he speaks with authority, and, we should hope, with effect. When he passes to the dogmatic he is, we think, loss admirable. In the sermon preached on the Sunday after Ascension Day he makes a statement which, taken without qualification, sounds very strange :—" Till our Lord ascended there was no regeneration, no illumination of the spirit to see divine mysteries, no fruits of the Spirit, no gifts of the Spirit." Was there, then, nothing of the graces enumerated in Gal. v. 22.3, no "love, peace, goodness, faith"? It is scarcely right to stigma- tise the opinion that the "brothers of the Lord" were uterine brothers as " profane." Some excellent Christians have held it. To say that Christ "took the name of the First-born as the Representative of Humanity" is an extraordinary gloss on " She brought forth his first-born Son."—The Church's lifess,ge to Men, edited by John T. Rowe, lf.A. (Skeffington and Son, 2s ), is a volume of practical sermons preached in Chatham by Arch- bishop Temple and others. They were " for men only," a limitation eminently suitable to the circumstances of this town, whore there are so many soldiers, sailore, Marines, and dockyard men (sometimes not far off twenty thousand).
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