The Portland daily press., 1886-01-12
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Reasons for Being a Churchman Adj
dressed to English-speaking Christians of
every name By the Rev. Arthur Wilde Lit
tie, NJ. A, rector of the st. Pauls church,
Portland, Maine. The Young Churchman
Company Milwaukee, Wis. Price $780, pos
tage 10 cts extra. portland: Loring, Short
& Harmon and Hoyt, Fogg & Donham.) Our
fellow citizen, the Rector of st. Paul's Church,
has written a book of 266 pages, dedicated to
the commandments of the Church. in his
own parish. Whatever be our denomina-
tional Affiliations, we all recognize the impor-
lance of the claims put forth by the Anglo
Catholic or Episcopal Church. This Church in
the British Empire and the United States
numbers about 225 bishops, 10000 priests and
some $4,000, 600 adherents. Its historic con-
tinuity which links it with the Apostolic
Church, its mingled conservatism and pro-
gressiveness, its orthodoxy, and its many
charities give it an honorable position even
in the eyes of those who strongly dissent
from its jurisdiction In this volume the au-
thor states the reasons" as he conceiyes
them, why English-speaking Christians
should belong to the old English Church rath-
er than to the Roman Church or any of the
Protestant Churches. The publishers have
done their work well, and the result is vol
ume of which any author may well have rea-
son to be proud. Paper, binding. printing,
everything of the best quality and in the
best of style. Of the matter of the book itself
it is perhaps enough to say, first, that it fills
a long vacant place in Church literature. Its
two purposes Of strengthening and proving,
or of information and argument, supply Sc
ries of bulwarks, behind which any soldier
of the Church may find shelter and the mu-
nitions Of war.
The scope of the book is wide and compre-
hensive. In unmistakable terms the real
question at issue is stated. And it needs to
be stated emphatically and plainly for the
benefit of great class of Churchmen.
The historical sections of the book are ac-
curately and well wrought. The historical
basis of the Anglican Episcopate, and the
historical refutation of the italian claims are
strongly stated. In doctrinal discussion Mr..
Little makes no especial claim, but without
any studied profundity, he is both reverent
and lucid in his presentation of the doctrines
of the Incarnation. In his reasoning the
Church. indwelt of the Spirit of God, is the
continued Incarnation, where in Holy Eu-
charist there is still Emmanuel, God with us.
It is in all book that will be trenchant
weapon in the hands of all Churchmen.
Clearly stated its logic is as unanswerable as
are the facts of Holy Scripture and of histo-
ry.
Echoes From the Pines. By Margaret E.
Jordan. portland: MCGOWAN & Young)
Home talent seems to be blossoming in this
boisterous winter season. The Triangular
Society set all the critics off into loud praise;
and now comes into notice modest volume
of some fifty short poems by Margaret E.
Jordan of Cape Elizabeth. These verses
breathe pious and reyerential spirit, and
many of them show an affectionate and pat
riotic heart. They are not so strictly local
as is the Triangular Society, but there is
Tribute to Dr. LIE Prohon and tender ode
to ST. Dominic's church. The poets coun-
trymen will perhaps be most pleased with
IT'S no Disgrace to be Irish, which should
be set to music and ought to be a favored
song among them.