RICH GLEANINGS AFTER THE VINTAGE FROM “RABBI” DUNCAN: SERMONS, LECTURES, AND ADDRESSES. Edited, with Biographical Sketch by the late Rev. James Steven Sinclair. London: Charles J. Thynne and Jarvis, Ltd., Whitefriars Street, Fleet Street. 4s net.
It is with the greatest pleasure we direct our readers’ attention to the second impression of this excellent book. It is gratifying to know that the first impression has been disposed of, and that a considerable part of the second impression has already been ordered. This impression differs from the first in having the addition of a very fine sermon on “The Many Mansions in the Father’s House” (John xiv. 1-10), and in a number of typographical corrections. As the type has been distributed, there will not be another impression issued, so that those of our readers who are anxious to obtain a copy had better order it at once. The price is reduced to four shillings, and copies may be had either from the publishers or Miss Grant, 33 Academy Street, Inverness.
ROBERT MOFFAT: ONE OF GOD’S GARDENERS, by Edwin W. Smith. London: Student Christian Movement. Price 5s net.
This is a most interesting account of the labours of the famous South African pioneer missionary, Robert Moffat, and his noble-minded and courageous partner in life—Mary Moffat. The influence he exercised over Umsiligazi, the powerful Matebele chief; the remarkable conversion of Africaner, the terror of the white and coloured races; Moffat’s and his wife’s hairbreadth escapes; the turning of the wilderness at Kuruman both literally and spiritually into a fruitful garden, are all fitted to give colour and picturesqueness to the narrative of which the author has taken full advantage. Dr Moffat went out to South Africa in 1817, and spent fifty-three years labouring there. He came home in 1870, and died in 1883 at the ripe old age of 88. In a future issue of the Magazine we hope to give a fuller account of these noble missionaries of the Cross.