Sermons for the People. By F. D. Huntington, D.D., Plummer
Professor of Christian Morals in the College and Preacher to the University at Cambridge, U.S. (Arthur Miall.)—These are in every respect excellent sermons. The style.is clear, forcible, and polished, always intelligible at the first glince, putting everything so as to compel attention, and free from false ornament. If it wants those higher beauties which are the fruit of genius, it is only the better sample of University culture, for universities cannot give genius, but can make the most of 'good sense. Mr. Huntington is also happy in his application of the Gospel to the every-day life of his hearers—to questions peculiarly fitted for pulpit treatment, and yet carefully avoided by most clergymen. Good in- stances of this are the sermons entitled "Woman's Position," "The Law of the House," "Children,—How to be Received." We must also mention the sermon on the " Divinity of Christ," in which this vital doctrine is admi- rably put to a Trinitarian congregation, viz., *so as to exhibit the proofs of the doctrine without an affectation of argument, which is absurd where there are none to impugn it.
Previous page
