Suggestions for the Spiritual Life
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"Suggestions for the Spiritual Life." By Prof. George Lansing Raymond, L.H.D. Price $1.40 net. Funk & Wagnalls Company, publishers, New York and London. The author, who is professor of esthetics in George Washington University, author of "The Psychology of Inspiration," and other works, has selected twenty-one college chapel talks, many of which have been helpfully suggestive and inspiring to others (insomuch that they have requested their publication), and has put these talks in permanent form, in some degree progressively connected, that they may bring blessings to others also. The chapter headings give something of the character of the book: "Carnal and Spiritual-Mindedness;" "Divine Sovereignty and Human Service;" "Personal Faith as Grounded on Personal Observation;" "Christian Character Determined by Conduct, Not Knowledge;" "Love the Criterion of Christian Discipleship;" "How to Impart Christian Principles;" "How to Appropriate the Discipline of Disappointment;" "Uncommon Opportunities and Common Occupations;" "The Small Fidelity that Precedes Great Fulfilment;" "A Kind Heart the Condition of a Courageous Life;" "Civil Liberty as a Result of Christian Civilization;" and others of kindred meaning. On the human side the work is excellent. We wish that it had emphasized a little more the divine side—"Ye must be born from above," and the creative power in answer to faith. But the human side—the yielding, the giving, the walking after the great divine Example—is admirable and appealing.