the Book of Judges. The subjects, therefore, of this volume will be fresh to a large number even of Bible readers. The pieces of biography here given are deeply interesting and suggestive; the author has drawn from them lessons of universal application and importance, and presented them in a philosophic order, with vigorous thinking and manly rhetoric.

THE MORNINGTON LECTURE: Thursday Evening. Addresses by THOMAS T. LYNCH. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. WHATEVER falls from the pen of Mr. Lynch will be prized by thoughtful men. He is a man of rare ability and high culture—a man to whom it is given to see and reveal the highest things. The following is the author's idea of Congregationalism, an idea we think not far short of the truth. "Congregationalism reminds me of what the naturalists sometimes talk about, and a queer thing it is. There is a composite creature called the king rat. I have never seen one, but it is to be seen in certain museums. It appears that rats, which are very fraternal creatures, after a fashion, associate with one another in such a way that their tails get fastened together, and there are sometimes as many as twenty rats making up one king rat. Their heads are all stretched outwards in a circle, and their tails all compacted and agglutinated together, nobody exactly knows how. Congregationalism is very much like that. All the tails are agglutinated together it is a compound creature, the heads all outward, ready to run different ways, the tails amalgamated in this queer fashion, so that no individual can move freely, and neighbours hamper instead of helping one another. Behold in figure a Congregational Union!" We heartily recommend this volume, abounding with striking and original thoughts.

FEATHERS FOR ARROWS: OR, ILLUSTRATIONS FOR PREACHERS AND Teachers. By C. H. SPURGEON. London: Passmore and Alabaster, 18, Paternoster Row.

It has been said that able men are generally lazy. Mr. Spurgeon's history is a contradiction to this. He is one of the most indefatigable labourers we have. The object of this book is good, and the title is happy. Although some of the selections are not, to our mind, the most unexceptionable, we can heartily recommend the work as a whole. It contains many 'feathers," adapted to carry the arrow of divine truth to the hearts of "hearers of the word."

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SEPARATE SERMONS AND LECTURES.

THE SECRET OF POWER. A Sermon. By ALEXANDER MACLAREN. London: John Snow and Co., 2, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. A sermon far above the average of those preached on such occasions.-LIBERTY IN ITS RELATION TO CHRIST. BY JOSHUA C. HARRISON. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row. A very thoughtful discourse, remarkably free from the pedantry which has hitherto often characterized the addresses of the chair of the Congregational Union.-THE KEYS OF HEAVEN: the

Lord's Words and the Pope's Pretensions. A Sermon by a Lay Preacher. London: Jarrold and Sons, 12, Paternoster Row. A sermon worth reading.-A FUNERAL SERMON ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF MRS. GASKIN. By Rev. WILLIAM CORNFORTH. Birmingham: Hall and English. Serious thoughts befitting the occasion.-THE FATHER OF RAILWAYS, OR A HERO FROM HUMBLE LIFE. A Lecture, by Rev. John Stokoe. London: Elliot Stock. An admirable lecture. The thinking, the spirit, and expression, are alike admirable.-THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN. By EDWARD DENNETT. London: Elliot Stock. An exposure of 'one of the most sectarian of all the religious sects in England-a pernicious people.-EXEMPLARY DISCOURSES OF GREAT ENGLISH PREACHERS IN THE TIME OF WICKLIFFE. London: W. Wesley, 81, Fleet Street. The sermon here of the celebrated Tyndall is a gem of its kind.

PAMPHLETS, &c.

A REPLY TO THE PAMPHLET OF REV. U. G. CLARK, M.A., entitled the dangers of the Church of England. By REV. CHARLES HEBERT, M.A. London: Macmillan and Co. This reply is admirable in spirit as well as able in expression. With the author's concluding paragraph we have the profoundest sympathy. "That a truly free national church, with a perfected English Bible, may be the brightest jewel in the wondrous favours of God to my native land, is the highest scope of my patriotism and of my prayers." If our bishops were men understanding the times they would make the Church wide enough to embrace the best of our nonconformist ministers.-THE PRIMITIVE MODE

OF MAKING BISHOPS. By JOHN HARRISON. London: Longmans and Green. A work that will prove interesting to the ecclesiastical antiquarian.—SHALL I LIVE FOR EVER? BY WILLIAM BARKER. London: Elliot Slock.-REV. G. MINTON RIGHT, ON THE QUESTION OF ENDLESS MISERIES. By HENRY SMITH WARLEIGH. London: Elliot Stock. We cannot go into this controversy. All we can say is, that both these pamphlets are worth reading. We cannot help saying, however, that the annihilation theory appears to us most repugnant to philosophy and derogatory to God.-PHARISAISM AND SELF-SACRIFICE. BY ANDREW JUKES. London: Morgan and Chase, 38, Ludgate Hill. This contains many good and wholesome remarks.-PAPERS ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH. By an English Presbyter, Nos. I. to VI. London: William Macintosh, 24, Paternoster Row. This is a controversial work. It is learned and elaborate, but not sufficiently interesting to us to attempt a perusal.

SERIALS.

THE FOOD JOURNAL: A Review of Social and Sanitary Economy. Parts I. to V. London: J. M. Johnson and Sons, 3, Castle Street, Holborn. We heartily welcome this journal as a most valuable addition to our monthly literature. It discusses subjects vital to the physical and social welfare of humanity. We wish for it a large circulation.-THE BIBLE STU

DENT: A Monthly Magazine. London: Hodder and Stoughton. There are so many works of this kind that we should think there is scarcely a place for it; then the articles, too, in this number are too heavy to enable it to float.-THE CHRISTIAN: Four parts: London: Morgan and Chase, 38, Ludgate Hill. We cannot say that we adopt its theory of religious revivalism. It seems to us too much like a revival of sensual feeling and personal selfishness. At the same time, the serial has sufficient merit to claim for it a large circulation.-THE POETICAL MAGAZINE: Parts I and II. London: Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Hall Court. The idea of this magazine is excellent; it offers a fine opportunity for young poets to cultivate their genius and to reveal their creations. It is a magazine intended to call forth the young Shakespeares, Miltons, and Tennysons of the age. We believe there are such, and some of the contributions before us incline us to the belief.

LIST OF BOOKS TO BE NOTICED IN OUR NEXT NUMBER.

Five Years in Damascus. By J. L. Porter, D.D., LL.D.--Jesus Christ the Centre. The History of Methodism. By Abel Stevens, LL.D.— Romance of Modern Missions. By Miss Brightwell.-The Life of Samuel Bradburn. By Thomas W. Blanshard. —Life Problems Answered in Christ. By Leigh Mann.-A Rhymed Harmony of the Gospels. By Francis Barham and Isaac Pitman.-Christian Revelation. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D.-Kardoo, the Hindoo Girl. By a Zenana Missionary.— The Keepsake Scripture Text Book. With a preface by the Rev. J. C. Ryle. The Pattern Prayer. By Rev. Francis Bourdillon, M.A.-Psalms, Hymns, and Anthems. By Samuel Smith.-Words in Season. By Henry B. Browning, M.A.-A Critical English New Testament.-The Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, regarded from a Layman's Point of View. By Daniel Biddle.-Faith's Jewels presented in Verse, with other Devout Verses. Edited by Lord Kinloch.-Religious Thought in England. From the Reformation to the End of Last Century. By Rev. John Hunt, M.A.

Church News.

EPISCOPAL. Bishop M'Ilvaine, of the American Episcopal Church, has arrived in London. The new church of Holy Trinity, at Richmond, has been consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester. It cost about £7,000, and the donor of the site was the late Lord Justice Selwyn. The death of the Rev. J. B. Marsden, of Birmingham, is announced.

CONGREGATIONAL.-Rev. T. Wallace, of Whitfield's Tabernacle, Dursley, has resigned. Rev. S. Ranson, classical and Hebrew tutor in Hackney college, will terminate his engagement at the close of present session. Rev. J. Gordon, of Salem Chapel, Newton Abbot, is

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'Strangers and pilgrims on the earth."-Heb. xi. 13.

AN'S mortal life is a pilgrimage. Thus the Bible represents it. Jacob says, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years." David says, "We are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers." Peter also addresses men as

strangers and pilgrims." And truly our

life here is a pilgrimage. We are constantly moving onward-leaving old scenes and entering new The circumstances that surrounded us yesterday are not the same as those that encircle us now; and into new ones we shall enter, if we live, to-morrow. We are not stationary a minute. The pilgrimage of life is in this respect peculiar. The ordinary traveller can often pause in his journey and even retrace his steps. Entranced with the landscape through which he is passing, he may resolve to tarry a time in its midst in order to revel in the beauties and drink in the poetry of the scene; or, remembering the grandeur of the scenery through which he

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had passed, he may retrace his steps in divine impressions renewed within him. pilgrimage of life: we can neither go Onward we are borne by a power as resistless as that which heaves the ocean and wheels the globe. Truly, this is not our rest. "Here we have no continuing city." There is a "house appointed for all living," and to which all living wend their way. Man, whatever his position in life, whatever his age, whatever he may be doing, is going to his long home. The whole of earth's population is on its march to the grave, and ere 1970 dawn on this globe, all will have reached the "land of darkness, where the light is as darkness without any order."

But I take the idea of pilgrimage now in order to illustrate the life of a true soul in this world. The life of such a soul is a pilgrimage in two respects: it involves a departure and a pursuit.

I. A DEPARTURE. A pilgrim is one that has left his old home, his early friends, familiar scenes, and ordinary avocations. Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, and as a pilgrim went forth not knowing whither. The Jews left Egypt, the scene of their nativity, and became pilgrims in the wilderness, sojourning in tents. What has a true soul left? It has departed from a dominant materialism. It once lived to the flesh and for the flesh. Its world was a world of animalism. It walked after the flesh, it judged after the flesh, its wisdom was fleshly. Its grand question was, "What shall I eat and what shall I drink?" The true soul has left this state; it has "been born of the Spirit," and is Spirit. Hence it minds "the things of the Spirit." It is in conscious and practical fellowship with the Invisible, with God, angels, and the spirits of "just men made perfect." It has departed from controlling selfishness. Self was the centre and circumference of all its activities. Society, the universe, God Himself, were nothing compared to self. It has now crucified self, and risen to the divine