“Goodness and Mercy”: being the Autobiography of William Sutherland Cooper, Pastor of the Strict Baptist Chapel, Lakenheath, Suffolk. C. J. Farncombe & Sons, Ltd., 55 South End, Croydon, Surrey. Price 6/6 post free.
This is the life story told by himself of a Strict Baptist minister. It is full of lively incident and reveals an observant mind quick to see the Lord’s hand in His providential dealings over a long life. Those who delight in books of this kind will find within these pages some very interesting accounts of the Lord’s dealings with Mr. Cooper. There are in it a few things with which we do not agree but taking it all in all it reminds one of William Huntington’s Bank of Faith though lacking the sparkle of genius that has made this work a classic in its own line. Mr. Cooper was one who sighed and cried for the abominations done in the land. He mourned over the decay of vital religion, the inroads of modernism and popery, the increase of Sabbath breaking, immorality and other forms of disobedience to God. He saw in the present terrible war the manifest judgment of God on the nations. The volume has a number of sermons of the experimental type. Mr. A. W. Light, as editor, has done his work with a practised hand and the publisher deserves credit for the get up of the book in times when there are so many difficulties in the way.