Psychic Power in Preaching. By J. Spencer Kennard, D.D. Edited,
with Memoir, by his Son, Joseph S. Kennard. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—The Memoir represents for us a very remarkable personality, illustrating the discourses to which it is prefixed. As long as there are such men as Dr. Kennard, so long will preaching be a force ; but they are, and must ever be, rare, —more rare, it may well be, than in the past, because some of these singular temperaments, of which religion had once a monopoly, are attracted elsewhere. Whether the book will be generally useful, we cannot say. It is not in any way a guide or handbook,—so much the title tells us ; but it contains eirwparva TUYET01011, ; the man who has this "psychic power " undeveloped or latent may have it roused or discovered. To others it may seem almost unintelligible. But, in any case, it represents an ideal, and ideals must work for good.
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