ength of
God's grace to make that truth clear, to brush away all the
fine-spun sophistries and half-truths by which the cunning sins of
men have hidden it.... There must be a great and true heart, where
there is a great and true preacher. And in that, beyond everything
else, lay the secret of Mr. Robertson's influence. His Sermons
show evidence enough of acute logical power. His analysis is
exquisite in its subtleness and delicacy.... With Mr. Robertson
style is but the vehicle, not the substitute for thought.
Eloquence, poetry, scholarship, originality--his Sermons show
proof enough of these to put him on a level with the foremost men
of his time. But, after all, their charm lies in the warm, loving,
sympathetic heart, in the well-disciplined mind of the true
Christian, in his noble scorn of all lies, of all things mean and
crooked, in his brave battling for right, even when wrong seems
crowned with success, in his honest simplicity and singleness of
purpose, in the high and holy tone--as if, amid the discord of
earth, he heard clear, though far off, the perfect harmony of
heaven; in the fiery earnestness of his love for Christ, the
devotion of his whole being to the goodness and truth revealed in
him."

[CHURCH OF ENGLAND MONTHLY REVIEW.]

"It is hardly too much to say, that had the Church of England
produced no other fruit in the present century, this work alone
would be amply sufficient to acquit her of the charge of
barrenness.... The reputation of Mr. Robertson's Sermons is now so
wide-spread, that any commendation of ours may seem superfluous.
We will therefore simply, in conclusion, recommend such of our
readers as have not yet made their acquaintance, to read them
carefully and thoughtfully, and they will find in them more deeply
suggestive matter than in almost any book published in the present
century."

[MORNING POST.]

"They are distinguished by masterly exposition of Scriptural
truths and the true spirit of Christian charity."

[BRITISH QUARTERLY.]

"These Sermons are full of thought and beauty, and admirable
illustrations of the ease with which a gifted and disciplined mind
can make the obscure transparent, the difficult plain. There is
not a Sermon that does not furnish evidence of originality without
extravagance, of discrimination without ted