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    182 The Publishers' Circular Feb. rs, 1S...

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    with a general review of the whole subject . The book contains the results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons

    who attained the age of eighty years , and in the venerable crowd seventy-four centenarians were included . The frontispiece of the volume

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    of the Gospels easy and popular . We think that in the present volume that object is well carried outboth as respects the method of

    , arrangement and the type . Here the reader may readily gret a sound knowledge of the textgrasp its meaning with comparative

    , facility , and acquire an intelligent mastery of such matters as will enable him to know the New Testament .

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    a new life . Many of the stories' related here were useful when they were originally told , and are now published by request in the hope

    that they will further promote practical Christianity . The author has done his work in such a way that we have no doubt his object

    will be accomplished . From the National Temperance Publication

    Dep 6 t . — ' Temperance History / by Dawson Burns , D . D . PartII ., 1843-1861 . Thesecondpart of Dr . Burns' ¦ exhaustive record of the progress

    ^^ r p ^ . I ^ — — ' —~ r —^ ~ ~ — " ' — — — — .... . ^ . ^_ , , ^^^ _^ _ . ^ of temperance and the work of Temperance Societies in the United Kingdom and abroad contains a vast array of details which form a

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    to his narrative of the Stanley Expedition . The incidents of Stanley ' s terrible journey , with its dangers and sufferingareof course

    quite fresh in our memories through , , copious , IMSfr- * - ' newspaper " ' ' reports ; but ' / at ¦ the same * time , " ""

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    ^^—of Major Barttelot , the revolt of the Egyptian troops , the Mahdist invasion , the Retreat of the Fifteen Hundred , and the return to Zanzibar . This descriptive workif here and f there marked

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    torical , Doctrinal , and Practical / by W . A . Cop bearing inger , upon F . S . A a . doctrine This is an that importan has seri t ousl work y

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    beyond doubt that he is desirous of giving due effect to the views of those from whom he may differ . Mr . Copingpr furnishes us with an

    excellent historical introduction full of valuable information bearing upon the doctrine of predestination . This portion of the bookindeed ¦

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    object of election , the cause of election , thedoctrine of freewill in relation , to divine grace , and the final perseverance of the saintsare

    , written with due consideration of the gravity of thesuhject and with an ample knowledge c * f the field in which the controversy has grown

    up . What is called the practical portion of the work is of considerable utility . It treats of personal responsibility in the matter of

    salvation a , the operations XT J of the Holy Spirit , and the assurance of the elect . We must not omit to allude to the exceedingly valuable

    bibliography , which discloses great care and research . It is packed with useful information touching most , if not all , the points concerned !

    in the special inquiry undertaken by the author . The volume is also enriched with a splendid " index ~ — ¦ — — . — Those ' ~ ' ~ mr —*^ -mm * ¦ who m > m — ^ r wish W W m ^ W ^^ ^ * m to mt ^ ^ become m , * ' - *** ^** m *^ m ^^ m ^ m — ¦ — fully mmi m n m * w

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    making forms a prominent feature ; and , after a somewhat rough experience , the young coup — .. ~ le _ v are B >* VBl -mm- happil *• ^ % *• W f ^ -m" ** % — y W united »<• « A ¦> «^ ^ V > J ( fc at W «^ last B « «^| f J « . 0

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    exhaustive work , and one marked by much labour and care . The present volume takes us of from that the Gospel 14 th . chapter It % IB of j St all . Luke the meritorious to the end

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    182 The Publishers' Circular Feb . rs , 1 S 90

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1890, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021890/page/16/