Talks with Lay Preachers. By Robert F. Horton, D.D. (A.
Melrose. Is. net.)—Dr. Horton gives excellent counsel in this little book. So, indeed, he should; he is a great preacher himself, and he "has heard all the great English preachers of the last thirty years" (does this period include his life at Oxford?) But we do not quite understand who these "lay preachers" are. They are not students, for they are "comrades with their hearers during the week." And yet they must be " students " in the general sense of the word, for they will have to assimilate, among other things, Canon Driver's "Introduction to the Old Testament." And the
" talks " appear, as far as we can judge, to have been held with actual classes. Our idea of a layman who is to fulfil Dr. Horton's ideal is of a very uncommon man intensely spiritual and intellec- tually able to dispense with training. If Dr. Horton can find a "great company" of such men—very good. With our present experience, we prefer that the preacher, like those who minister to other wants of man, should be set apart for his work.
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