A Call to Humiliation and Prayer by Thomas Houghton, Editor of the Gospel Magazine.
Price 1d; by post, 2d; 6/6 per hundred, post free. The Gospel Magazine Office, 23 Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C.2.
This pamphlet by the Rev. Thomas Houghton is reprinted from the Gospel Magazine, and clearly and Scripturally sets forth our need of national humiliation. While we cannot share in the thankfulness expressed that by the King’s wish, Sabbath, May 26th, was observed as a day of national prayer, holding as we do that the Sabbath is exclusively the Lord’s Day, and that no earthly king has a right to set it apart as a day of national prayer, we have the greatest pleasure in recommending the pamphlet to our readers, and would suggest that they should do all in their power to bring it to the notice of as many as possible. May the seed sown bring forth an abundant fruit.
The Kingdom of Heaven taken by Prayer by William Huntington, S.S.
Price 3/10, post free.
This is a reprint of another of William Huntington’s works and is as the sub-title tells us “an account of the author’s translation from the Kingdom of Satan to the Kingdom of God.” He has risen to the heights and gone down to depths of the Christian’s experience as few in his own or any other generation have, and is therefore very helpful to those who have that kind of religion which Satan thinks it worth his while to harass. While a few misprints have been noticed, the publishers, Messrs. Farnecombe & Sons Ltd., 30 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, London, E.C.4, are to be congratulated on the neat manner in which the book is printed. It is hoped that by helping to give the book a wide circulation all lovers of the truth will encourage the Publishers to issue more of Mr. Huntington’s volumes and similar works which are now out of print.
Free Grace Tracts by the late Rev. Jonathan Rankin Anderson, Glasgow.
The above 32 pp. booklet, excellent for general distribution, has just been issued from the press. It contains a reprint of Nos. 1-4 of the “John Knox Tracts” by the late Rev. Jonathan Rankin Anderson, of Glasgow, and includes (1) “The Well of Living Water,” John iv. 14; (2) “The Duty and Privilege of the Meek,” Zeph. ii. 3; (3) “The Invitations of the Gospel,” Isaiah lv. 1; (4) “The Resurrection and the Life,” John xi. 25.
According to the late Rev. Neil Cameron, Mr. Anderson was a theologian of much eminence, both profound and accurate in his expositions of the doctrines of the Word of God, deeply taught by the Holy Spirit, and possessed of keen discernment as to the secret actings of Satan both in the world at large and in the Church. This caused him to declare his convictions about men and matters that were not rightly understood by some of his brethren at the time. The painful events, however, which have taken place since, have “fully justified,” declares Mr. Cameron, Mr. Anderson’s warnings.
Mr. Anderson was also a man of high scholarly attainments. He had a brilliant career at the University of Glasgow, where he took honours in Metaphysics and in Mathematics. His knowledge of Oriental literature was extensive, and for a time he acted in the capacity of professor of Hebrew, although he never formally received the title. In modern languages, too, he was proficient and read the German theologians in their own tongue. He clearly foresaw, as few did, the spiritual devastation that was to result from the dissemination of the anti-Scriptural views of the German school of theology on the one hand, and on the other, from a false evangelism characterised by faith which stood not in the power of God, but in the wisdom of man. Against such delusions Mr. Anderson bore a faithful testimony throughout a ministry that was richly owned of God in the conversion of sinners. “It will not be fully known,” writes Mr. Cameron, “until the last day how fruitful his ministry was.” In his student days in Glasgow the late saintly Rev. D. Macdonald, Shieldaig, used to hear Mr. Anderson “with much appreciation.” “Rabbi” Duncan was a life-long friend of his, and for a time Mr. Anderson was favoured with the confidence of the worthy Duchess of Gordon, whom he was in the way of visiting in his journeys to the far north, where thousands from a wide area used to flock to his services, and “the flock of slaughter” were fed with “the finest of the wheat.” Mr. Anderson passed to his eternal rest on the 10th day of January, 1859, at the age of 56. Mr. Anderson was a great expositor of Scripture, and expounded nearly the whole of the New Testament. Within the last few years two volumes of Mr. Anderson’s sermons had a wide circulation in both England and Scotland.
The tracts reveal a faithful handling of the Truth, evincing a zeal for the divine glory and the salvation of sinners, and a diction marked by the chaste simplicity of scholarship. How seldom in current religious literature are sinners addressed as really condemned on account of a broken covenant—under the curse of God in time, and exposed to its fearful consequences throughout eternity! How conspicuous by its absence is the absolute need of the effectual call of the Holy Spirit! Not so in Mr. Anderson’s tracts which hold forth to sinners “the glorious gospel of the blessed God.” They deserve the widest circulation, and especially among the men of our Forces where sound literature is so urgently needed. Printed on best quality paper with an artistic stiff cover the booklet (containing four tracts) is remarkably cheap at 4d. each, post free, or 3/- a doz., post free, and obtainable from Mr. H. B. Pitt, 4 Clarendon Road, Trowbridge, Wilts., England.
“Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.”—W. M.