INGOLDSBY LETTERS by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1881

INGOLDSBY LETTERS.

By John Norton Loughborough

THIS is the title of two nicely-printed and neatly-bound volumes containing one hundred and twenty-eight letters from the pen of Rev. James Hildyard, B. D., Rector of Ingoldsby, North Grantham, Lincolnshire.

These letters, which were first published some twenty years since in various English journals, deal with the question of Prayer-book Revision.

The author of the letters, while believing that the prayer-book though very good, may be made better—that the divines who lived two or three centuries ago did not monopolize all the wisdom and piety of the country, but have left a little of both to the people of the present day—believing these things, "Ingoldsby" has come to the conclusion that we may safely, and should without delay, suit the prayer-book to the wants of our time. In the letters, he shows that all the objections now made against altering a line, or even a word, in the Book of Common Prayer, have been made over and over again—in fact, whenever the subject has been agitated, and that they have also been answered as often as made.

Having just completed a careful reading of these letters, I deem them well worthy of perusal. They are filled with sharp, pointed, and appropriate quotations from writers both ancient and modern. Their literary ability and pleasing diction show the scholarship of the author. No one who reads them will fail to be benefited, even if he is not sanguine in the special subject of the letters.

The two volumes of letters, comprising nearly one thousand pages, bear the imprint of Bassell, Petter, Galphin & Co., Ludgate Hill, London, and are offered at 10s. or $2.50 American currency. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

[This may not forcibly strike the minds of our readers on this continent, most of whom know but little of the subject, but it will be interesting to our many readers across the waters.—ED. SIGNS.]