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"From the pen of one who inherits an honoured name, and with it also, as it seems, the sober and sensible soundness which we have learned to associate with that name. The discourses show that considerable pains have been taken with them, and they are plain and good."

JOHN BULL.

"Make up for Lost Time,' is the title of a very practical volume of Sermons by the Rev. G. E. JELF. Mr. JELF's style is clear and remarkably free from any mannerism or affectation. The Sermons are quite above the average for thoughtfulness, and it is a volume which might be found very useful for lending to the sick, and even might be studied with profit as a sermon-model by the younger clergy, especially in our country parishes. The teaching is thoroughly sound. The work is appropriately inscribed to the memory of Dr. JELF."

THE LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

"We rarely meet with a volume of Sermons more thoroughly uniting the characteristics of calm sobriety and deep earnestness than these. Theologi. cally, too, they are far above the average, both as regards the theology in them, and the quality and tone of what is conveyed. Such Sermons as that (No. XV.) on the Afflictions of the Head completed in the Afflicted Members, and that on the Sacrifice of Isaac, (No. XVI.,) are good specimens of the whole, and we very warmly recommend them to our friends."

THE CHURCH TIMES.

"One thing especially which we like in the volume of Sermons which Mr. G. E. JELF entitles 'Make up for Lost Time,' is that the writer has interwoven an unusual quantity of Scripture with them. But this is not their only good point. The teaching is plain, direct, and thoroughly Christian, and the Sermons bear evidence that they have been prepared with great care. The book is considerably above the general run of sermon volumes."

THE ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

"These twenty Sermons are a worthy filial tribute, by a worthy son, to a worthy father, and we do not doubt that Dr. JELF wisely and correctly thought (as his son says in the dedication) that they would prove of some help to a troubled soul.' We can commend them safely to souls, either troubled or at rest."

LONDON:

JOHN AND CHARLES MOZLEY, 6, PATERNOSTER ROW.
JOSEPH MASTERS, 78, New Bond Street.

Oxford: JAMES PARKER & Co.

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