OUR CHRISTIAN CLASSICS: READINGS FROM THE BEST DIVINES. With Notices Biographical and Critical. BY JAMES HAMILTON, D. D., AUTHOR OF "LIFE IN EARNEST," TO THE RIGHT HƠN. AND RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. MY LORD,-Amongst other pleasant memories which, in common with many a contemporary, I have carried away from Glasgow College, is the commencement of that career which, through the mastership of Rugby, and the deanery of Carlisle, has borne up into the see of London the most popular of our fellow-students. At first attracted, and ever since retained, by that charm which a noble nature sheds around itself, we have rejoiced, as if personally promoted, in your rise to successive posts of influence and honour; and, although your life must henceforward be full of labour, in common with every patriot and every Protestant, we pray that this great metropolis, and the Church of England, may long benefit by that public spirit, that sound judgment, and that zeal for the best of causes which you carry to the discharge of your high and arduous duties. In the following pages, it is likely that opinions and estimates of character may occasionally be found with which your Lordship cannot coincide; but the strong are generous, and those who are most fully persuaded in their own minds, are |