CURRENT LITERATURE.
What Mean You by this Service? A Sermon, preached at St. Saviour's Church, Holton, on Sunday evening, November 17, 1867, by the Rev. John Oakley, Incumbent of St. Saviour's. (Cook and Son.)— Had we received this sermon a little sooner, we should have called attention to it, together with Canon Robinson's, in a previous column. It is plain, manly, thoughtful, and eloquent,—full of common sense, of devout piety, of large sympathy, of clear, positive conviction. Mr. Oakley explains what he means by the Communion Service in the language of no party, and yet keeps quite clear of that cautious via media which evades faith. His expression of "resistance, not to say defiance, against the doubting, cavilling spirit which is abroad with respect to faith in Christ,—against the half-faith of many professing Christians,' —is noble and hearty, and quite free from narrow bigotry. There is nothing controversial about the sermon, but it expresses on that account only the more powerfully what there is of common faith in all the opposing schools.
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