KESWICK TEACHING, by J. K. POPHAM, Sovereign Grace Union, 98 Camberwell Grove, London. Price 2d., post free.
The Sovereign Grace Union have done excellent service in publishing this trenchant criticism of a sermon preached by Dr. Seroggie at the Keswick Convention in which he allowed himself to say in connection with Newton’s well-known lines:—
“‘Tis a point I long to know,
Oft it causes anxious thought,
Do I love the Lord, or no?
Am I His or am I not?”
“Could there be a more miserable sentiment than that within the covers of a Christian hymn book?” We are heart and soul with John Newton and we cannot understand how any one who knows anything of his own heart could characterise Newton’s words as Dr. Seroggie has done. Mr. Popham deserves the thanks of all who love sound experimental teaching in exposing Dr. Seroggie’s uncalled for and wanton attack on words that have expressed the feelings of all true Christians.