Three Sermons. By the late Rev. J. Spence Johnston, B.D.
(Roffey and Clark, 12 High Street, Croydon. is. 6d. net.)— These three sermons by the late Mr. J. S. Johnston (who made his mark while he was still domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury as a theological writer and a preacher who com- bined scholarship with eloquence) deserve mention as excep- tional examples of the art of sermon-writing. They are in- structive, they have insight and feeling and form, and they are not long. Most people have seen G. F. Watts's pictures, " The Dweller in the Innermost," " Hope," and " Whence, Whither ? " Therefore it would be easy, one would think, to interest most people in a spiritual interpretation of them —if the interpretation have any ray of illumination ; the scheme offers a valuable suggestion to other preachers. The
quality of Mr. Johnston's interpretation is no doubt far above the ordinary man's capacity, but his model is there for all to copy.
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