Contemporary Literature [pp. 549-569]

~875.] CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. 549
or doing aught to the prejudice of men who work in Christ's name,
though they walk not with us, nor adopt our methods. There are some
things for which no Christian man needs, or can be required to ask any
human license; and one of these is to testifr to the world the sincerity
of his faith in confessing Christ before man, and in beseeching fellow
sinners to repent and believe. This is not merely a privilege, but it is
a solemn duty, and in some cases manifestly so by general concession.
Few will dispute that with such atte3tations to their labors in Great
Britain, as Messrs. Moody and Sankey have received, it would appear
like abandoning the post of duty for them to withdraw from the work to
which they seem to have been providentially directed. Many, indeed,
whose distrust of their methods and whose prejudice against whatever
savored of irregularity might have been counted upon as likely to set
them in opposition, have pronounced most decidedly in their favor,
Commending their work and eulogizing its results.
Art. XI.-CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE.
TH~oLoGv.
AMONG the standard devotional works of the day, one of the very highest
is Tholuck's Hours of Christian Devotion, translated from the German by
ROBERT MENzIEs, D. D., published by William Blackwood & Co., London,
and Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, New York. It consists of seventy-six
discriminating, devout, and elevated meditations, on as many Scripture
passages, relating to nearly every occasion, aspect, and vicissitude of Christian experience and life. These meditations are marked by a depth of Christian feeling and insight, and a richness of thought, expression, and illustra~ion, which place them greatly above the common-place productions in this
department.
T.& T. Clark, of Edinburgh, and Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, of
New York, issue, at $3, Pastoral Theology: A Treatise on the Office and
Duties of the Christian Pastor, by the late Dr. P~T~ic~ FAIRBAIRN, with a
Biographical Sketch of the Author, by Rev. James Dodds, Dunbar, which is
an appropriate successor to his Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles, recently published by the same houses. It is earnest, solid, judicious, evangelical,
marked by the usual characteristics of the distinguished author's produc 35