"Come, ye Children." By the Rev. B. Waugh. (Cassell and
Co.)—Mr. Waugh, so widely known for his advocacy of the rights of helpless children, has a care for their souls as well as for their bodies. Some time ago we noticed a volume of sermons for children, full of beautiful practical lessons of patience and obedience and courage and love, illustrated by little stories very aptly chosen. This new book is not meant for the children them- selves—as it is rather "over their heads "—so much as for their teachers. It is full of wise suggestions for cultivating their love for and confidence in God and his Divine Son, and for leading them on through love for him to the love and care for their human brothers and sisters. Some of the stories illustrating his lessons are very beautiful and touching ; some are too sad and painful and even horrible for children, but valuable to teachers, as illustrative of Mr. Waugh's position that every trial, and even every horror, may be found to work good to the souls of men, if we will only look for it, whether we find it, or trust to the good- ness of God when we cannot find it. Some expressions, here and there, we could gladly spare, as the following, the meaning of which is obscure :—" It will be fine times for our country when to its children's creed no other article is added, till that [the Apostles' Creed] has been made to rise to young lips all dripping with their hearts' blood ;" and there is irreverence in trying to make God lovable to children by suggesting that they feel, when they are playing at rounders, that they are doing so "with God at the game." But these passages occur in the preface, and we do not find them in the book itself. The illustrations are very numerous, and many of them very beautiful indeed.
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