Sir John Field, K.C.B., Soldier and Evangelist. By his Son,
Claud Field. (R.T.S. 5s. not.)—This is a volume which we feel constrained to notice very briefly. It is not that we aro sceptical about the genuineness of the story told, or undervalue its import- ance. John Field, born in 1821, went out to India in his twentieth year, joining the 6th Bombay Infantry, which was then engaged in the first Afghan Campaign. He served in India for thirty-four years, this time including the Abyssinian Expedition of 1867-68, where he was in command of a regiment. But the determining event of his career was spiritual. Conviction came home to his mind, and profoundly affected him. Thereafter he felt constrained, not only to live according to the new light, but to testify to others, a difficult task anywhere and at any time, and particularly so in the Indian Army of sixty years ago. Who can refuse to recognise the disinterested courage—to say nothing else—of the man who acts on such a conviction ? After his retirement from the Army he carried on the work to which his heart was given. We do not dwell on its details, but we are quite sure that such men as " Sir John Field, Soldier and Evangelist," are the most powerful "evidences of Christianity."
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