The Story of Two Churchwardens. By the Rev. Joseph Clarke.
2 vols. (Skeffington and Son.)—The " two churchwardens " are father and son, and the story therefore carries us over a con- siderable portion of time. The elder Ross was roused to spiritual activity by hearing a sermon from John Wesley, and the son appears to be a contemporary of our own. As John Wesley died in 1791, this accounts for a good deal more than a century. The story is full of digressions, and concerns itself with a number of people who do not perceptibly increase its interest or further its purpose ; but it contains a fair amount of what is readable, and something of value. Mr. Clarke knows something, it is evident, of the ways of thinking among Dissenting communities, and he is not disposed to be uncharitable or unkind. His book sadly wants compression and order, but it is not without merit.
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