April - the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland

Notes and Comments. 509and cast in her lot with the people of God is not recordBdin her diary but the experiences therein recorded and the lettersaccompanying this record show how thorough the change was.Like all the Lord's people she had her trials, spiritual and ,otherwise.Her earnest cry to be delivered from her sin and mademme and more conformable to the image of her Redeemer willencourage those passing through a like experience who insteadof feeling themselves holier are realising more and mo.re theabominations of their heart. Those who delight in gleaningin the fields which God has blessed to others will find in thisbook much toeneourage them while the spirituality and heavenlymindedness of Mrs. Tanner should exercise a humbling effectowing to their own lack of those Christian graces which made herheart burn with such ardent love tp her Saviour. The diaryand letters are edited by a grand-d'aughter, Miss M. H. Wakeley,37 Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton, who has done her work well,and who will, no doubt, receive the thanks of not a few for herJa,bour of love. The book has. a brief recommendatory forewordby Mr. J. K. Popham in which he says he esteems it an honQurto write the foreword.Notes and Comments.The Press and Sabbath Observance.-Now and againthrough the happening of certain events one gets an insightinto the attitude of the press to Sabbath observance. There arehanourable exceptions but generally speaking the kind of Sabbathobservance that would be tolerated by the great majority ofpressmen is of the most nebulous ki nd. This country is now,flooded with llf:Jwspapers that had their original home over theBorder and the attitude on the Sabbath question as set forthin these papers would leave us very little of the Sabbath ifthe people of this country were foolish enough to follow theircounsels. In many cases the men whose oracular utterances.appear in the press are engaged in Sabbath work and one mightas soon expect to find a band of Mussolini hero-worshippers