WILLIAM QUARRIER AND THE STORY OF THE ORPHAN HOMES OF SCOTLAND by ALEXANDER GAMMIE.
Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, Bothwell Street. Price, 2/6.
The story of this noble enterprise reads like a romance. Here is one who himself had tasted the severe pinch of poverty after his father’s death nobly resolving in his heart as the people passed him by in the High Street of Glasgow one day after he had been without food for a day and a half that he would not do so if he had means to help the hungry and poverty-stricken. That resolve was destined to become a reality and the story of how it came to pass that William Quarrier became the Orphans’ Friend in Scotland is movingly told in this book. He prospered in business and if he had set himself to acquire wealth he might easily have become one of the merchant princes of Glasgow. But the Lord had other work for William Quarrier and he gave himself up to do this work with all his heart. As one who had obtained mercy through the Lord Jesus Christ his heart was directed to do something for the fatherless and motherless destitute children of Scotland. And what a noble work it was! By all means get this book and read it for the reading of the life of such a benefactor of the little ones is bound to do one good. William Quarrier like George Muller of Bristol never made any appeal for funds but went to the Lord in prayer and not once in all the history of the Homes has there been a debit balance at the end of any financial year. Though the noble founder of the Bridge of Weir Orphan Homes went to his rest, the work is still carried on under the same principles which ruled during the life-time of the founder. The amount of money received from 1871 to near the end of 1936 amounted to the vast sum of £2,731,431; the number of children admitted during this period has been 20,591. In addition 9646 persons have been admitted to the Consumption Sanatoria and 1051 to the Colony for Epileptics. One cannot visit these wonderful Homes with such substantial and beautiful buildings and so little of the atmosphere of an institution about them and see the well clad, healthy, happy-looking children without feeling what a noble work William Quarrier did.
HUGH LATIMER by ROBERT DEMAUS, M.A.: Abridged and Edited
by Newman Watts:
London: Religious Tract Society, 4
Bouverie Street, E.C.4. Price 1/6d.
This is the latest in an excellent series of biographies issued by the Religious Tract Society. Demaus’ biography on Latimer, as his on Tindale, is a standard work. The story of this worthy martyr who cheered his fellow-martyr, Bishop Ridley, with the words: “Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out,” is worth reading. These faithful men did not find the way to heaven easy but grace was given to them to face the scaffold and the stake rather than renounce Christ. Mr. Watts has considerably abridged the original work but the main points in the story of Latimer’s life have not been lost thereby. The book is wonderfully cheap at the price of eighteen-pence. We heartily recommend it to our readers. The binding, printing, and get up of the book is all that could be desired as one would naturally expect coming from the R. T. S. press.
PROGRESSIVE ROMANISING OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; and
THE VATICAN AND SPAIN.
London: Protestant Truth Society,
31 Cannon Street, E.C.4. Price, 2d. each.
These are two pamphlets issued by the Protestant Truth Society. The titles indicate the matters with which they deal.