f genius: they stir the soul to
its inmost depths: they move the affections, raise the
imagination, bring out the higher and spiritual part of our nature
by the continual appeal that is made to it, and tend to make us,
at the same time, humble and aspiring--merciful to others and
doubtful of ourselves."

[From a SERMON preached at the CONSECRATION of the BISHOP of NORWICH,
by the REV. J.H. GURNEY, late of MARYLEBONE.]

"I do not commit myself to all his theology; I may differ from the
preacher in some things, and listen doubtfully to others. But I
know of no modern sermons at once so suggestive and so
inspiriting, with reference to the whole range of Christian duty.
He is fresh and original without being recondite: plain-spoken
without severity; and discusses some of the exciting topics of the
day without provoking strife or lowering his tone as a Christian
teacher. He delivers his message, in fact, like one who is
commissioned to call men off from trifles and squabbles, and
conventional sins and follies, to something higher and nobler than
their common life: like a man in earnest, too, avoiding
technicalities, speaking his honest mind in phrases that are his
own, and with a directness from which there is no escape. O that a
hundred like him were given us by God, and placed in prominent
stations throughout our land!"

[GUARDIAN.]

"Without anything of that artificial symmetry which the
traditional division into heads was apt to display, they present
each reflection in a distinct method of statement, clearly and
briefly worked out; the sentences are short and terse, as in all
popular addresses they should be; the thoughts are often very
striking, and entirely out of the track of ordinary sermonising.
In matters of doctrine such novelty is sometimes unsafe; but the
language is that of one who tries earnestly to penetrate into the
very centre of the truth he has to expound, and differs as widely
as possible from the sceptic's doubt or the controversialist's
mistake. More frequently Mr. Robertson deals with questions of
practical life, of public opinion, and of what we may call social
casuistry--turning the light of Christian ethics upon this
unnoticed though familiar ground. The use of a carriage on Sunday,
the morality of feeing a railway porter against his employers'
r