This book contains eighteen book reviews written by J C Philpot, reprinted from the Gospel Standard and arranged in four parts: the first being reviews on books either written by William Huntington or about him; the second headed “His Immediate Circle,” contains reviews on the lives or writings of Isaac Beeman, Joseph Chamberlain, James Bourne, John Rusk and John Vinall; the third entitled, “His Extended Influence,” contains reviews on the lives of Frances Wernham, John Grace, James Lewis and Mrs E Parsons; the fourth headed, “James Bourne’s and Bernard Gilpin’s People,” contains reviews of the lives of Sukey Harley, Richard Dore and Hannah Judd.
Each review begins with an introductory essay on a spiritual subject connected with the book. Reading the books obviously led J C Philpot’s mind into a channel of meditation on some spiritual aspect of the work under review, giving rise to a discriminating discourse which adds value to the reviews. “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matt 12:34), or the pen writeth.
He says on page 250, “Our great desire for ourselves in personal experience and in all that we bring before our readers, either written by our own pen or that of others, is faith which stands not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
We recommend this book to all lovers of sound, experimental truth.

J A Hart
The Gospel Standard
December 2005