WISDOM’S REQUEST: a Sermon to the Young. By the Rev. J. R. Anderson. Fifth Edition. Glasgow: John M’Neilage, 65 Great Western Road.
This able and interesting sermon on Proverbs xxiii. 26, “My son, give me thine heart,” has been reprinted under a new title, and in very neat form. The matter of the sermon, it is almost unnecessary to add, is well-directed and highly instructive, and forms a contrast to the trash that is widely served up to the young nowadays. We trust it will find its way into the hands of all our young people, and that its important injunctions will be seriously laid to heart.
ENGLAND’S PRIVILEGE AND CURSE: a sermon preached in the Parish Church of Elworthy, Somerset, 20th June, 1897, being the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majesty’s Accession. By the Rev. J. M. Sangar, B.A., rector. Price one penny. London: William Wileman, 27 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C.
This is a powerful sermon to the times by a minister of the Church of England. He exposes with vigour and faithfulness the corruptions of the High Church ritualistic party, and the degeneracy of our national legislature. In reference to the recent National Thanksgiving, he says—”But neither at St. Paul’s Cathedral, nor anywhere else, can a service of national thanksgiving be otherwise than hateful to God, so long as a Crown sworn for the defence of the Gospel continues to patronise idolaters and to tolerate their accursed idolatries. To those strains of lovely music that will be heard outside St. Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday next, the Majesty of Heaven will give no more encouraging response than He once gave to hypocritical worshippers by Amos the prophet, ‘Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy viol.’ So long as the State tramples upon that Protestant religion which the Sovereign swore to maintain to the utmost of her power, every religious profession of the State will be an abomination to the Lord. But let there be national humiliation for the religious crime of the last 68 years, a repeal of every Act that has given power to the Roman Beast, a merciless demolition of all that is Romish in our Churches, a wholesale expulsion of Romanizing prelates and clergy, and a wholesome provision for the future indictment of every rogue at the bar of justice who perjures himself in respect of his Protestant contract with the Church of Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer; and then, indeed, it may reasonably and scripturally be expected that our State and people, upon such national recognition of Him by whom ‘kings and princes decree justice,’ shall learn by experience that ‘righteousness exalteth a nation,’ and be blessedly requited for their constitutional loyalty to that inspired but now utterly despised precept, ‘My son, fear thou the Lord and the king, and meddle not with them that are given to change.'”