A Champion of the Faith: A Memoir of the Rev. CHAS. HENRY HAMILTON WRIGHT, D.D., Ph.D. With Extracts from His Writings and Journals. Edited by James Silvester, M.A., Vicar of Great Clacton and Little Holland. With Preface by Henry Wace, D.D., Dean of Canterbury. London: Chas. J. Thynne, 25 Whitefriars Street, E.C. Price, 4/ nett; postage, 4d. extra.
We have read this Memoir with much interest. Dr. Wright, who died in 1909 at the age of seventy-three, was a good man, a profound Oriental scholar, an active minister of the Gospel, and a zealous Protestant lecturer. Though we may not endorse all his views, especially on some points of Old Testament scholarship, we cannot but admire the general excellence of his Christian character and his earnest labours on behalf of the spiritual welfare of his fellows. Dr. Wright was capable of occupying the highest position in the Church of England, but he paid the penalty of his attachment to sound truth by being kept all his days in a very subordinate position. The Memoir is well worthy of perusal, and of a place in any good library.
MR. CHAS. J. THYNNE, publisher, London, has sent us several booklets on historical and prophetic subjects. Two of these are the following:—”Great Britain, Palestine, Russia, and the Jews,” by the Rev. C. L. Langston, M.A., Secretary of the London Jews’ Society; and “Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem,” by the Rev. E. Hoare, and edited by the Rev. T. H. Townsend, D.D., price 1/6 nett each, postage, id. extra. These booklets contain interesting information, but they are to some extent spoilt to us by the teaching that Christ is to return and reign personally on the earth during the millennium. We hold that the Scripture, rightly viewed, only warrants us to look for His Second Personal Advent at the last day.