Lombard Street in Lent. By Various Preachers. (Elliot Stock.) —
It is quite impossible to criticise these sermons, more than twenty in number, and dealing with all the social subjects which have been debated during the last ten years and more. Wherever we may turn in the book, we shall find something to admire, as far as the motive that has dictated it, is concerned, and not unfrequently something that we are compelled to question. If all the preachers had the same strong common-sense and clearness of vision that Professor Cunningham shows when he deals with the question of wages, it would have been well. It would not be fair to point out this or that instance, as we conceive it to be, of falline short of this standard. Generally, we may say that while the volume as a whole is well worth reading, some of the utterances seem deficient in clearness, and to show but a partial grasp of their subjects.
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