Dr. Caesar Malan, our author, was an eminent and honoured preacher of the Gospel—Dr. Duncan was much blessed, at the beginning of his spiritual experience, in conversation with him—but there was a certain defect in Dr. Malan’s mode of presenting the truth with regard to saving faith. While he believed that faith was the gift of God and the fruit of the Spirit’s work, yet he dealt rather exclusively with exhortations to faith, and seems to overlook above the necessity of praying to God to bestow saving faith. It is wrong to ask God to procure redemption by sacrifice, for that has been done already, but it is not wrong to ask Him to save us by working faith in us, and thus putting us in actual possession of redemption. Apart from this point, the dialogue is excellent, and highly fitted to be useful, under the divine blessing, in leading souls to rest upon the sure foundation for eternity—Jesus Christ and His infinite sacrifice.—ED.