The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-25
BOOK RETIEUS.
THROUGH FIRE AND WATER. BY Frederick
Talbot. New York: Harper 4 Bros.

THROUGH FIRE AND WATER. BY Frederick
Talbot. New York: Harper 4 Bros.
A moderately sensational tale of common
place English life, with two heroines and
two heroes
The aristocratic heroine, Lucy, literally
goes through fire and water to save the life
of recreant lover, who has discarded her
on learning her fathers pecuniary mistor-
tunes, but resolves to take her into his good
graces again on finding a lost will, by which
she is made worthy to become his wife
Fortunately for herself, she escapes this fate
by dying, in consequence of the heroic exer-
tions she has made in her struggles with
the elements, in saving this modern hero,
John Jones. curate of the city church St.
SavealPs, London.
The plebeian heroine, Patty, also goes
through fire and water-metaphorcal, how
ever, this time-to save her model young
man from disgrace and the gallows; the
murdered man turning up alive and all
right, and a law suit being somehow lost
sight of or forgotten in the confusion, all
goes merry as a marriage bell, although-as
is sententiously remarked in the closing
sentence-"n no good generally comes of IN
equal marriages. But, after all, the great
thing is to get woman to suit you, and
one that will go with you through thick
and thin. And having found her, Ned, you
naturally stick to her, as she stuck to you
through fire and water"
The CHRISTIAN PASTOR. Rev. Stephen H.
Tying, d. D., Rector of St. Georges
Church, city of New York. New York
Harper Il Bros
The theological student. and the young
minister of the Gospel will find this unpre-
tending little work an invaluable guide and
companion in their labors in field occupied
for over half century by the venerable
pastor who here offers them the result OF
his experience.
He compares the ministry to the practice
of medicine. In both, younger men, what
ever may be their talents, must practice by
their knowledge of the efforts OF others
while older and more mature men prescribe
upon tHc IesultS Ol their own ODScfVatlon
and experience. THE incidents, facts, and
principles of action, which have been
already demonstrated in the light of the
past, become the advisers and guides for
the obligations Of the FUTURE"
This publication embraces a series of
=" Lectures on the Office and Duty of the
Christian PASTOR" delivered before the
students of the School of Theology of the
Boston University. 1t contains no scheme
Of dogmatic theology, no course of theoretic
instruction, bat simply records TIE actual
results Of personal observation and expe-
rience in a long and active life in the min
istry.
Drawing line between the offices of the
minister as preacher and as pastor; the one
requiring especially the enlightened intel
lect, publicly to expound the Gospel: the
other the sympathetic heart to understand
the difficulties of others, and privately to
make its personal, practical application;
the minister, who confines his
iabors to the pulpit, toa farmer who woul,
put up fine fence-posts around his land, but
leave out the panels of fencc-he addresses
himself especially to the young minister as
pastor; defining his object, his qualifica-
tons, his Instruments, his agencies, his
power, his attachments.
Written in a simple, conversational man
ner, yet with pureness and chasteness of
language which throws a charm over every
the book is, nevertheless s, dan
,erous one to place in the hands of mere
for the inevitable comparison |
which will be drawn between the minister
IS he should be, as herein portrayed and the
minister as he too often is, in these degener-
tie days, will be sadly detrimental to the
after.