Inevitably, there are difficulties in trying to deal with such a broad subject within the compass of a relatively small book. One might have wished that more space had been available to consider the visiting of believers who are ill and to note the encouragement to the visitor from hearing the testimony of saints on their sick-bed. Secondly, the limitations of space mean that the author has had to use scripture quotations as proof-texts rather than to consider them in context, something which tends to give an impression of superficiality. In fairness to the author, he is only too aware of this constraint imposed on him. Overall, though, this is a book which will provoke us to love and to good works.
No reader should miss Appendix 4, a ten-page quotation from the writings of J. C. Ryle.
[Our thanks to Ed Hotchin, Hucknall, Nottingham, UK, for this review] |
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