THE LIBRARY. FEW American preachers of our generation have succeeded in getting closer to the heart of a popular audience than Robert McIntyre. Sprung from the people, he has in a peculiar sense shared their joys and sorrows, and so entered into their motives and thought that he has had unusual success in adapting his message to their need. The verses which he has written from time to time have the same sympathetic quality. At Early Candle Light, the volume which gathers up the best of his poetical writings, has the sweet homely air which its name suggests, and its words and rhythms, though never soaring far, will bring satisfaction, comfort, and serenity to hearts untouched by statelier measures and more sonorous lines. Perhaps even himself would dislike to be bracketed with Burns or Wordsworth, but ing incidents crowd upon each other, and the large canvas is full of strong figures in great variety and in vigorous action. The plain country folk are to our mind those whom the author has best realized, and their conversations and sententious remarks are a chief attraction of the book. The chapter which sketches the lights and shadows of a Methodist Annual Conference session is of real literary distinction. The book bears some relation to Frederic's Damnation of Theron Ware and Goss's Redemption of David Corson, but it is in no way imitative. In its crisp portrayal of character, vigorous handling of highly dramatic incident, and its picturesque descriptive style, it is a first book which holds out promise of present acceptance and future improvement. Dr. McIntyre must not think us overkind if THE we say that he is a lineal descendant of the Scottish poet of the plain people. The verse is American, however, in every feature; the scenery, the imagery, the persons all are of the great middle West, where perhaps the American heart beats truest. is characteristic of the tendency of the times that the novel is being chosen as the vehicle of some of the most earnest thought which is being brought before the world. Men of scientific learning, like Professor Ebers and Grant Allen, employ it to popularize the results of their studies. Mrs. Humphry Ward loads it with her religious ideas, which the older Arnolds would have embodied in sermons, essays, or poems. Mr. Sheldon preaches his novels chapter by chapter from the pulpit to his evening congregations. It is no wonder that we find a popular preacher like Dr. McIntyre adopting the same medium of expression. Should his new book A Modern Apollos prove successful, his audience will exceed many times the numbers who could gather within the sound of his voice. The story has been very cordially received. It abounds in life and color. Strik At Early Candle Light. Robert McIntyre. Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye. New York: Eaton & Mains. $1 net, postpaid. A Modern Apollos. Robert McIntyre. Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye. New York: Eaton & Mains. $1.50. THE belief of Dr. King that "few people can intelligently state the truths of the Gospel in their relations" is unfortunately well grounded in fact. The subject, in so far as it is written upon, is locked up in theological treatises that the people either cannot or do not read. Acting upon this conviction, Dr. King, who is pastor of Trinity Church, Worcester, Mass., devoted four sermons last winter, during a period of deep revival interest, to the setting forth in popular form of the plan of man's salvation as presented in the Scriptures, and especially in the Epistle to the Romans. The sermons are now printed for a wider audience in a handy volume, The Moral Universe. It is to be hoped that the circulation of this important little book will not be limited to the "pastors, evangelists, and Christian teachers" whose attention is sure to be held by its directness, clearness, and simplicity. It is just what they need in their work, but by the same token it is precisely the book which should be in the hands of the people, church members and inquirers alike, who are in want of something which will ground them in the fundamental principles of the faith which they profess or toward which they are groping. WITH ITH the book which we have just noticed comes another which we note belongs to a projected series of "Little Books on Devotion." The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, the author of Dan'l Quorm and other books, inaugurates the series with The Christianity of Jesus Christ.* The author takes it for granted that it is a revelation of God and a means of personal salvation, and addresses himself to Christians with the third proposition in view, namely, that "Christianity is the power of God for conquering and regenerating the world." He considers Christ's view of the work and the methods designed for its execution as mapped out by him and begun by his apostolic successors. With this plan, which involved the whole Church, men and women, in the propagation of the Gospel, he contrasts with fine irony the presentday method, by which the burden of responsibility is lifted from the great body of the membership and laid upon a select number of authorized and ordained men who have been formally set apart for this task. Again, Christ's gospelers were without funds, while without money the modern Gospel campaign refuses to march. Yet the promise unto us is, "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you." Similar comparisons show how far from Christ's view we have veered in our operations for extending his kingdom. Mr. Pearse's questions are soul-searching in their penetration. "This," he says, "is the only end, the test, the proof of our religion-does it make us like Jesus Christ?" But the book is not altogether an arraignment. It pulls down false work, to be sure, but it shows with sympathy, love, and spiritual insight far beyond the ordinary how the earnest soul may attain to the Christianity of Christ. many ways, have since been in close assoc tion. Mr. Hughes, as an American pub need scarcely be told, is one of the most c spicuous figures in Old World Methodism preacher, organizer, and editor who has be constantly in the public eye for the p twenty years, and has played a leading p in the latter-day development of Wesley! ism. In bringing the influence of his Chur to bear in shaping public policy, in succe ful endeavor to recover its weakened ho upon the masses, in rescue work and d coness endeavor, and in city mission wo characterized by inventiveness and vigor has been conspicuous. The publication his life, by J. Gregory Mantle, comes at time when Mr. Hughes is temporarily 1 tired by ill health from his manifold acti ties, but should he never resume them to t full the record as already made up wou constitute a valid claim to the interest the religious public. For in many respec he stands as a type of the modern religio leader, differing by a whole sky-brcadth fro the contemplative saints of the earl Church, yet animated by the same spirit service for Christ and the Church. Illustrated Berean Quarterly. Senior Berean Lesson Quarterly scholars from eight to eleven years of age. Per year Berean Intermediate Lesson Quarterly. For scholars from eleven to fifteen years of age. 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