662 PRIESTS LEAVE THE CHURCH OF ROME, by ALBERT CLOSE.
The Protestant Truth Society has just issued a striking volume, which is the result of much research by Mr. Albert Close, setting out the records of 662 former Roman-Catholic priests, who have entered into communion with the Church of England and other Evangelical Churches all over the world. The list covers the last century, and it will come as a staggering surprise to many to learn that something like three thousand Roman-Catholic priests have abandoned or renounced that Church since 1800. The explanatory matter, which accompanies the records, will be of immense encouragement to the Protestant cause, for whilst publicity is often given to the names of those who are perverts to Rome, there is generally a conspiracy of silence about those who leave the Romish Church, and embrace the gospel. The volume is published at 2s. 6d. and may be had from “Cranley House,” 31 Cannon Street, London, E.C.4, for 2s. 9d. post free.
SELECTED SERMONS, by J. C. PHILPOT, M.A. London: C. J. Farnecombe & Sons, 30 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C.4. Price 4s. 6d. Post free 5s.
This volume of selected sermons of the well-known Strict Baptist preacher will be relished by exercised believers. It is not a book that nominal Christians and hypocrites will find pleasant reading. There are few sermons with which we are familiar (with the exception of Rev. Archibald Cook’s) that drive one out of every refuge of lies in which the easy-going believer is too ready to take rest like these. The sermons are chiefly experimental, searching but helpful to those who would like to make sure of their hope for eternity. Man’s work is not lauded to the heavens neither is the nobility of human nature extolled but the mighty power of the Holy Ghost in regeneration and sanctification, God’s sovereignty and man’s utter ruin are set forth in virile English with telling emphasis. It was Mr. Philpot’s special gift as a preacher to distinguish between the precious and the vile and thus to be a feeder of God’s flock and a succourer of many and though dead he is yet speaking.
BRITAIN WITHOUT GOD: An Exposure of Anti-Godism by a London Journalist. London: Lutterworth Press, 4 Bouverie Street, E.C.4. Price 1s. (paper covers).
This is a remarkable book. Some of our readers may be already familiar with it but to those who are not we strongly advise them to get a copy. It is not pleasant reading as we have here marshalled in a masterly way by an expert with the pen the tremendous onset that is being made against true religion both in the Church and without it. The writer deals in a very reverent way with his subject and though we do not agree with some of his suggested remedies for the deplorable condition of things existing yet his book is worth reading were it for no other purpose than to send us to our knees with the prayer: “Arise and plead the cause that is thine own.”