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The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine
The Bible Christian magazine a continuation of the Arminian magazine Author:Bible Christians Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Bible Christian Magazine. PULPIT WORTHIES OF OLD WALES. ' OHN FOSTER, in a scathing critique of an ostentatious, but insipid, literary production, expr... more »essed a desire that a copy thereof, and of every such specimen, labouring under an infirmity of meaning, should be preserved in a spacious repository built by the state, pending the advent of some Thaumaturgus who could transmute them into mental gold. If the novel suggestion were but carried into effect, what an accumulation we should witness! We venture the prediction, however, that Mr. Paxton Hood's effusions would not be relegated to such a destiny. A reviewer of his Dark Sayings on a Harp, spoke accurately when he said, "He never is -- what some preachers always are -- prosy; he seems to have taken a perpetual vow against dulness. Hence the truths he has to exhibit come up in all kinds of captivating forms, being interwoven with telling stories, rich old legends, bold personifications, apt quotations, racy interpolations, and fine touches of humour." These commendable features are conspicuously apparent in one of the most recent productions of his prolific genius. Despite an occasional abruptness and repetition, which, perhaps, betrays a literary slovenliness, or, more probably, high pressure from limited time, the general verdict of the critics has been, that the biographer has executed his task with consummate skill. He is manifestly en rapport with his theme, and, metaphorically, compels forth from his honoured sepulchre, the grand old veteran to live, and walk, and speak in our presence. f A study of the charming and vivacious book must convince us that Mr. Hood ungrudgingly gave himself up to widespread research, Christmas Evans, the preacher of Wild Wales,« less