“_We do not wonder at Mr. Moore’s long continued popularity with so
many hearers; there is so much painstaking and so much genuine desire
to discharge his duty as a preacher visible through all the volume.
What we miss is the deeper theology, and the spontaneous flow of
teaching as from a spring which cannot help flowing, which some of our
preachers happily exhibit. But the Sermons may be recommended, or we
would not notice them._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.
“_Rarely have we met with a better volume of Sermons.... Orthodox,
affectionate, and earnest, these Sermons exhibit at the same time
much research, and are distinguished by an elegance and finish of
style often wanting in these days of rapid writing and continual
preaching._”――JOHN BULL.
“_Sermons like those of Mr. Moore are, however, still of comparative
rarity――sermons in which we meet with doctrine which cannot be gainsaid;
with a knowledge of the peculiar circumstances of his hearers, which
nothing but accurate observation and long experience can secure, and a
peculiar felicity of style which many will envy, but to which it is the
lot of few to attain._”――CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.
“_We have had real pleasure, however, in reading these sermons. Here
are most of the elements of a preacher’s power and usefulness: skilful
arrangement of the subject, admirable clearness of style, earnestness,
both of thought and language, and the prime qualification of all, ‘in
doctrine, uncorruptness.’_”――LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.
=THE KNIGHT OF INTERCESSION, AND OTHER POEMS.= By the Rev.
S. J. STONE, M.A., Pembroke College, Oxford. Second Edition.
Small 8vo. 6s.
“_Mr. Stone has now given to the public a collection of poems, widely
different in form, which enable us to measure more accurately his
powers, not merely as a hymnist, but as a poet; and though we would
not injure a growing reputation by overstating his merits, yet we can
safely say that his volume contains much genuine poetry which will be
read with unqualified pleasure.... It would be ungrateful of us to put
down this volume without expressing the great pleasure it has afforded
us, and our high appreciation of the valuable services which its author
is rendering to the Church._”――CHURCH BELLS.
“_... We all know him so well as the author of the beautiful
processional hymn ‘The Church’s One Foundation,’ the Lenten hymn ‘Weary
of Earth,’ and other favourites, that we were fully prepared for the
pleasure that awaited us in perusing this volume._”――CHURCH OPINION.
“_The extracts we have thus given, differing as they
do alike in subject and in style, present fair specimens of the varied
interest of the volume, and of the poetic powers of its author. Most of
our readers, we think, will agree with us that the publication is
well-timed, and that it has much in it that is both pleasant and profitable
reading._”――CHURCH HERALD.
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