The Minister and his Work. By William Henderson Harrowes, M.A.
(Andrew Melrose. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Harrowes is a minister of the Scottish Free Church. This fact will be found to affect in some particulars the application of his counsels. The most important of his subjects is the sermon. This, as we all know, occupies a place in the economy of the Presbyterian Church which is not conceded to it in the Anglican. Mr. Harrowes counsels the devotion of the whole morning, for four hours must mean this, to study, and the ultimate end of this study is the sermon. This is not the Anglican ideal ; indeed, with the practice of frequent services now becoming more and more general, it is out of the question. Then the subject of pastoral visitation is differently treated. We do not say that it is not an excellent plan to send postcards intimating the intention to call at a certain hour ; but it is alien to our ways. We might find other points of difference; but we have nothing but praise for the spirit in which the book as a whole is conceived and written. Any minister who may read it cannot fail to learn much.
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