lith LIFE AND FAITH OF THE BAPTISTS. By H. Wheeler
Robinson. (Methnen. 5s.)—Men and women who enter in adult years through a dramatic act of baptism upon the Christian life are likely to seek to live piously. The author does well to emphasize the piety) of the Baptists and to point to their fierce love of personal liberty. Without claiming Milton for his faith, Dr. Wheeler Robinson sets in honour the great Baptist names, John Smyth, Hehvys, Busher, Murton, Roger Williams, seven renowned Cromwellia,ns—William Allen, " Adjutant-General of the Horse," Richard Deane, Admiral and General-at-Sea, Thomas . Harrison, Colonel Hutchinson, Ludlow, Lilburne and Gaugh—hid. Of course: Robert Hall, Carey, Spurgeon and Clifford. But not for that appreciation alone would we recommend the book. While it Warns the Baptist of the existence of that which outside observers have long regarded as the " Baptist Oradox," the strange continuance of Baptist theological narrowness she by side with a fervent faith in liberty, it performs for a mil- Baptist reader the great service of proVoking more searching thought about the co-existent differing polities of the Early Christian Churches than anything else of its size so far written.
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