1896
Jan 2: From Glory to Glory (RTTC): The Armenian Atrocities – by W.M. Ramsay: ‘Sentimental Tommy & The Weir of Hermiston’ (CCC)
Jan 9: The Old Testament in the Christian Church [book review]: ‘The Guardian’ (CCC)
Jan 16: ‘Cast out the beam’: The Keswick Dispute: James Beattie & George Macdonald (CCC)
Jan 23: The Exposure of Cardinal Manning [review of biography]: ‘Miss Rossetti’s last poems’ (CCC)
Jan 30: Do we need a Fresh Revelation? [Bk Rv]: ‘My Apprenticeship’ – G.F. Pentecost
Feb 6: A study of Religious Pathology [book review]: Ecclesiastical situation in Germany: ‘Visit to north Wales’ (CCC)
Feb 13: Is the Gospel of Christ forgotten? (RTTC): Interview with J.H. Jowett: ‘Mr. L.F. Austin’ (CCC)
Feb 20: ‘Cast your deadly doing down’ (RTTC): ‘Prof. Sainsbury on Nineteenth Century Literature’ (CCC)
Feb 27: Is Christ Dead in Vain? (RTTC)
Mar 5: ‘Hochma’ [book review]: The Liberal Party and The Education Question – interview with R W Perks: Survey of [Bible] Texts
Mar 12: The Church and the Press (A paper read by WRN): The Free Church Congress (CCC)
Mar 19: Maurice Maeterlinck’s latest essay [review]: Length of Sermons [competition and lists]: ‘Two New Scottish Writers’ (CCC)
Mar 26: Washed White or Whitewashed? [Review of Mark Rutherford’s Clara Hopgood]: ‘The Offence of Religious people’– Ian Maclaren
April 2: The Long Love of Christ (RTTC): ‘The Author of the Schonberg-Gotta Family’ [obit.] (CCC)
April 9: The Education Bill
April 16: A Friendly Reply to Dr Clifford and the Daily News: ‘A bundle of books’ (CCC)
April 23: What Anglicans wish to teach children? [Review of Canon Gore’s book]: ‘A new poet: Marie Corelli’ (CCC)
April 30: The Book of the Twelve Prophets [review of G.A. Smith’s Commentary by Marcus Dods]: ‘A chat with the President of the Baptist Union’ (WRN)
May 7: The Bible as Literature [book review by R G Moulton]
May 14: ‘The Mind of the Master’ [John Watson’s book reviewed by T G Selby]: Unpublished letters of John Stuart Mill to Thomas Carlyle
May 21: ‘I will build my Church’ [review of P T Forsyth’s bk.]: ‘Alan Ramsay & Hugh Miller’ (CCC)
May 28: A Suggested Liberal programme for 1902
June 4: The Christian State and Christian Education [reply to Hugh Price Hughes]: ‘Six religious biographies’ (CCC)
June 11: Dr Hort - The Cambridge School [review of Life and Letters]: ‘Bishop Thorold’ (CCC).
June 18: The value of peculiar possessions (RTTC)
June 25: Do ‘Great events from little causes spring’? ‘Professor Nichol’ (CCC)
July 2: The Mothers of St Paul (RTTC): the Anglicans and the Education Bill: ‘The new Cornhill and other Magazines’ (CCC)
July 9: Nonconformists in the Teaching Profession: ‘Mark Rutherford’ (CCC)
July 16: The Prayer Meeting (RTTC): Interview with Silas Hocking: ‘What makes a novel successful’ (CCC)
July 23: Robert Burns: ‘How his ghost was comforted’ [WRN]: ‘Dr R W McAll’s novel’ (CCC).
July 30: ‘If you two shall agree’ (RTTC): ‘G Adam Smith’ by A B Bruce: ‘Pearls’ (CCC).
Aug 6: The face of an Angel: ‘Curiosities of Crabbe’ (CCC)
Aug 13: The Casting away of Theology [book review] (RTTC) ‘President McCosh’ (CCC)
Aug 20: Is the Sermon on the Mount the Christian Gospel? [Bk Rv] (RTTC): ‘Kilsby Jones’ (CCC)
Aug 27: The fear of Death and the Death of Christ [by James Denney]: The Alleged Decline of Church-going: ‘Some books which have interested me’ (CCC)
Sept 3: Church Attendance: ‘Dr John Pulsford’ (CCC)
Sept 10: Church Attendance: the Preaching of Today: ‘The Alleged Decline of Church-going’: ‘Benjamin Smith & Graham Travers’ (CCC)
Sept 17: Our Duty to Armenia [the atrocities]: ‘Biblical Criticism and the Old Testament by G. Adam Smith: ‘The late Dr H R Reynolds’ (CCC)
Sept 24: The People’s Bible [review of Joseph Parker’s books]: ‘The influence of Modern Literature on young men of today’ – by A Taylor Innes
Oct 1: Loyalty to the Saints: The Cambridge University Nonconformist Union
Oct 8: David Lyall [review and appreciation]: Armenian Demonstration at City Temple
Oct 15: At Home with God: ‘Charlotte Bronte and her circle’ [reviews]
Oct 22: Kate Carnegie and those ministers [review of Ian Maclaren’s book by Marcus Dods]
Oct 29: A Methodist ‘Salem Chapel’ [Bk Rv]
Nov 5: ‘An unknown and yet well known’ (by R.A. Watson)
Nov12: ‘With Open Face’
Nov 19: ‘A Listener unto Death’ (RTTC): The American Presidential Election (WRN).
Nov 26: The Sorrows of Literature and Life [book review]: ‘A.B. Davidson’ by Late Prof. Elmslie [Davidson had been asked to be Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland: he was to decline it]
Dec 3: Margaret Ogilvy [review of J M Barrie’s book]: ‘Literary people in Boston’ (CCC)
Dec 10: Mark Rutherford on the death of Modern Conversions: ‘A Visit to Salem and Concord (WRN)
Dec 17: Literature and the Gospel [review of bks.]; ‘Interview with Archibald Brown’ [East London Baptist Tabernacle] by Jane Stoddart
Dec 24: ‘The Cure of Souls’ [John Watson’s Yale Lectures reviewed by WRN]: ‘A Manchester Poet – George Milner’ (CCC)
Dec 31: The Theology of Walter Pater (RTTC): ‘Confessions of a Reviewer’ (CCC)
1897
Jan 7: ‘Those Ministers’: ‘Lord Bowen’ (CCC)
Jan 14: Is God loving to Israel? [Review of modern fiction by T G Selby]: ‘An Editor’s sorrows’ (CCC)
Jan 21: The Accessibility of Truth: ‘My favourite passages in prose’ (WRN)
Jan 28: The Theology of Little Children (RTTC): ‘My favourite passages’ (Ian Maclaren): ‘The Land of the Dollar’ (CCC)
Feb 4: The Evangelical Love for Christ (RTTC)
Feb 11: Principal Fairbairn on the Death of Christ [review by James Denney]: 'Robert Burns – Chambers-Wallace Edition’ (CCC)
Feb 18: The Secret of Stevenson’s Charm [WRN]
Feb 25: The Melancholy of the New Testament: ‘Augustine Birrell and Reviewing’ (CCC)
Mar 4: What is the Nation coming to? ‘A Weekend at Bournemouth’ (CCC)
Mar 11: Shall we coerce Greece? ‘Dr Parker’s Sermon at the Free Church Council’ (CCC)
Mar 18: Professor Henry Drummond [special edition] (POTC)
Mar 25: Liberalism, the Christianity of politics: ‘The Private Library’ (CCC)
April 1: Benjamin Jowett [review of Life and letters]
April 8: The Sorrow of the Saviour (RTTC): ‘What will he do with it – Strachey and the Spectator’ (CCC)
April 15: ‘Women received their Dead’ (RTTC): ‘The Bronte Sisters’ (WRN): ‘Another trip to Haworth’ (CCC)
April 22: ‘Those Ministers’ in France. [Bk Rv]: ‘On the rate of reading’ (CCC)
April 29: ‘The House of Dreams’ [book review]: ‘The rate of writing’ (CCC)
May 6: The Religion of Oliver Cromwell [book review by R.F. Horton]: ‘The rate of writing’ (CCC)
May 13: Dr Gifford on the Incarnation: ‘James Lane Allen’ (CCC)
May 20: The Wesleyan Synods and the Strolling Pastorate: ‘Mr Greenwood on Journalism’ (CCC).
May 27: Three Great Words of Jesus: ‘Mr Moody on the Late Prof Drummond’: ‘Read on the train’ (CCC)
June 3: Geocentricism: The latest scarecrow (RTTC): ‘The Revised Version’ by Marcus Dods: ‘At Lourdes’ (CCC)
June 10: The Headship of Christ: ‘Prof Ramsay’s Impression of Turkey’ (CCC)
June 17: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee [special edition]
June 24: Science and Immortality: Dr Newman Smyth [book review]: Nonconformists during reign of Victoria
July 1: Mrs Oliphant [obit. WRN]: ‘With the Fleet at Spithead’ by Ian Maclaren: ‘Twixt the Land and the Moss’ (CCC)
July 8: The Secret of Christian Experience (RTTC)
July 15: The Finger of God: ‘The Dictionary of National biography Dinner’ (CCC)
July 22: From the Tabernacle to the House (RTTC): ‘The Women’s Dinner’ (CCC)
July 29: Christ waiting to be Gracious (RTTC)
Aug 5: Christianity and the Sword
Aug 12: Mr Hall Canines The Christian (Review): ‘The True use of a Holiday’ (CCC)
Aug 19: ‘As Chastened and not Killed’ (by R.A. Watson)
Aug 26: St Paul on trial again [book review]: ‘Aberdeen Awa’ – Claudius Clear
Sept 2: A new Methodist Theologian (review of book by John Scot Lidgett)
Sept 9: The True Christian? ‘Mr Gladstone and Mr Chamberlain’ (CCC)
Sept 16: A Stickit Minister: [obit. R H Hutton of the Spectator]
Sept 23: This Ministry: ‘The Fantastic Fiction – The Invisible Man’ (CCC)
Sept 30: The Cleansing Blood of Christ (SE)
Oct 7: The Life of Lord Tennyson [review of biography]
Oct 14: The House of Blackwood book review]: Review of Harnack’s History of Dogma by Marcus Dods
Oct 21: ‘At His feet as dead’ (SE)
Oct 28: The Expositor’s Greek Testament [review by James Denney]: ‘The New Terror to Critics’ (CCC)
Nov 4: The Progress of Nonconformity [looking back over 10-11 years]: ‘A New Preacher – Mr. R.F. Campbell, of Brighton’ (CCC)
Nov 11: Angelic Doctors [review of books]: ‘Mrs Barrett Browning’s Letters’ (CCC)
Nov 18: Ten Sheepfolds [Our Churches and why we belong to them; book review]; ‘Some notable books’ (CCC)
Nov 25: The Latest Theology and the Man in the Street
Dec 2: Deacons: ‘Sarah Grand and John Oliver Hobbes’ (CCC)
Dec 9: School Boards and the Moral Education of Children
Dec 16: Professor Drummond’s Legacy: ‘In the Riviera’ (CCC)
Dec 23: Friendship [book review. by Hugh Black]: ‘Professor Denney in his Class Room’ – by a Student: ‘Spurgeon’s Autobiography’ (CCC)
Dec 30: The Quest of Happiness ‘Three New Books’ (CCC)
1898
Jan 6: Looking and Looking Off (SE): ‘Some thoughts on Criticism’ (CCC)
Jan 13: The Moulding of the Scottish Reformation: ‘Christina Rossetti’ (CCC)
Jan 20: Should the Gospel be preached to every Creature? ‘Rev John McNeill in London’
Jan 27: The Christian Endeavour movement in the Churches
Feb 3: The Everlasting Gospel by James Denney [review of P T Forsyth’s The Holy Father]: ‘A Friend of Burns’ (CCC)
Feb 10: The Burning and the Shining (SE & AOTS): ‘What shall we do with our poets’ (CCC)
Feb 17: A Christian Optimist: Dr. Philip Schaff [review of autobiography]: ‘Diary of a Nobody and War of the Worlds’ (CCC)
Feb 24: A Breeze from the Eternal Summer (SE & AOTS): ‘The editor’s apology’ (CCC)
Mar 3: The New Dictionary of the Bible [Hastings]: ‘Books about Bookmen’ (CCC)
Mar 10: Lifted up out of the Earth (SE & AOTS): ‘Principal Morison’ (CCC)
Mar 17: An Ancestor of Emerson (by W. Hale White)
Mar 24: The Position of the Temperance Movement
Mar 31: The Finality of the Bible [WRN]: Dr. Parker’s Jubilee: ‘James Payn’ (CCC)
April 7: The Easter Glory of the Angels (SE): ‘American wives and English husbands’ (CCC)
April 14: Benjamin Parsons (A country minister’s life): Joseph Parker’s Jubilee
April 21: The Uplift of the Soul (AOTS): ‘The Length of Pastorates (A First Series of Letters)
April 28: The Burning of the Metropolitan Tabernacle [appeal to readers]
May 5: Apostolic Succession [book review by Marcus Dods]
May 12: A Word against Weariness: John McNeil at Islington
May 19: Passing the Love of Women [Rv of a John Watson bk.]: ‘Dinna forget Spurgeon’ – Ian Maclaren: ‘G.W. Cable at Mr. Barrie’s’ (CCC)
May 26: The Death of Mr. Gladstone [Memorial Edition]: ‘Dr. Whyte’s Address to Ministers’ (CCC)
June 2: Revival Christianity: Principal Brown (POTC): ‘Mr Gladstone’s Funeral’
June 9: Dr. Whyte’s Addresses: ‘Thomas Goodwin and the devotion of the Sacred Heart’ [review]
June 16: The Print of Nails
June 23: The Unpretentiousness of True Religion: Dr. Parker’s Jubilee
June 30: ‘No popery’ [approval of statements by Sir. Wm. Harcourt]: New Series, ‘Ritualist Conspiracy’
July 7: ‘Frost of the lips and thaw of the soul’ (SE)
July 14: Theology and the Work of the Ministry (by Marcus Dods)
July 21: ‘What is our Chief Peril?’ (TLOS)
July 28: The Second Mile: ‘Rev Edward White’ – WRN: ‘‘The Late Dr. W.A. Hunter (ex MP) (CCC)
Aug 4: ‘We wrestle’ [Encouragement to preachers]: ‘‘Prince Bismarck’ [Obit & Appreciation] (CCC)
Aug 11: The Anaesthetic Gospel: ‘The London Dailies’ (CCC).
Aug 18: The Immortality of the Soul (by Prof. Agar Beet & WRN): ‘Practical uses of the Bible’ (WRN): ‘My London Dailies’ [Evening Papers] (CCC)
Aug 25: Notes on Unconditional Immortality and Methodist Sacerdotalism: ‘Mr Spurgeon’s Wooing’ [review of second volume of Autobiography] (CCC)
Sept 1: The Heritage of the Meek: ‘Repentance and Conversion, What are they?’ (WRN): ‘Mr. Jerome K. Jerome’ (CCC)
Sept 8: The Delight of the First Advent.
Sept 15: What makes Christian Priests? New Series on ‘Christian Science’
Sept 22: Death the servant of life: ‘Christian Science’, 2. ‘The Strange Claims of Christian Science’ - ‘Does it cure nervous troubles?’
Sept 29: ‘Let him be righteous still’ [Review]: ‘Christian Science’, 3. ‘Is Christian Science an Imposture?’ ‘John Splendid’ – Claudius Clear
Oct 6: God’s Mild Curfew (SE): ‘Christian Science’, 4. ‘Why Christian science fails to Cure’: ‘Henry Reave’ (CCC).
Oct 13: The Unknown Christ: ‘Our Society, Work and how to better it’ by R.J. Campbell: ‘The Equal Dividend’ (CCC)
Oct 20: The Lord’s Servant Deaf and Blind (TLOS)
Oct 27: The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper [Remarks on pronouncement by Archbishop Temple]: ‘A Bishop without Ambition’ [Dr. Walsham How] (CCC)
Nov 3: Was Bishop Walsham How a perfect Christian? (POTC): New Series ‘Palmistry in London’ – ‘Its Peril and Mystery’: ‘On Handwriting’ (CCC)
Nov 10: John Blackwood and his Men: ‘Hain Friswell’ (CCC)
Nov 17: John Angel James & R W Dale [WRN]: Biography of R.W. Dale reviewed by James Denney
Nov 24: The Easy Way out of it all (SE): ‘Ian Maclaren’s Afterwards’ (CCC)
Dec 1: Dr. Dale as a Churchman (by James Denney): ‘Aristocratic Evangelists’ by Ian Maclaren: ‘Robertson of Irvine’s Poems’ (CCC)
Dec 8: A Forgotten Book (by W Hale White): ‘Dr. John Stoughton’ (WRN): ‘Halliday Rogers’ (CCC)
Dec 15: An Evangelist’s Biography [review of G. Adam Smith’s biography of Henry Drummond by Ian Maclaren]: Notes on the First Six years of the British Weekly (WRN)
Dec 22: The Eternal Child in the Midst (SE): ‘Thomas Hardy as a Poet’ (CCC)
Dec 29: The Reformation of the Liberal Party: ‘Irish Life and Character’ (CCC)
1899
Jan 5: Bithynia and Jerusalem (SE): ‘On Critics and Criticism’ (CCC)
Jan 12: God the Subtractor: ‘Principal Caird – Marcus Dods: Alexander Maclaren’s Annual Sermon to Young men
Jan 19: Notes on English Style in the Victorian Period (1 - WRN)
Jan 26: Notes on English Style in the Victorian Period (2 - WRN): ‘Scottish Characteristics’ (CCC)
Feb 2: Principal Fairbairn on Catholicism [review]: ‘Dr Berry’ [Obit & tributes by P T Forsyth and Silvester Horne], ‘Mrs Parker’ [death of Joseph Parker’s wife] John O Hobbes & Annie Swan.
Feb 9: The New Catechism: ‘Mrs Parker’ (WRN).
Feb 16: The Lost Fear of God.
Feb 23: What is to be the Next Step? [Ritualism]: ‘A Bookman in Italy’ (CCC).
Mar 2: Can Protestants work Together? (1): ‘The Love letters of the Brownings’ (CCC)
Mar 9: Can Protestants work Together? (2)
Mar 16: Mr Sheldon’s In His Steps (1. ‘not Christs, but Christ’s’) [review]
Mar 23: Mr Sheldon’s In His Steps (2. The Quest of the Cross): ‘About some old ministers’ (CCC).
Mar 30: Mr Sheldon’s In His Steps (3.Luxury & the new obedience): ‘Miss Fowler’s new novel’ (CCC).
April 6: Mr Sheldon’s In His Steps (4. Where the stress should fall): ‘Concerning three popular delusions’ (CCC).
April 13: The Latest Voices on the Atonement (Gore & Wilson reviewed): ‘Life saved by a sense of humour’ (CCC).
April 20: Seven-day Journalism: ‘G Adam Smith’s Yale Lectures’.
April 27: More about Seven-day Journalism.
May 4: ‘We have an Altar’ (WRN): ‘The Life of Wm Morris’ (CCC).
May 11: ‘Art thou the – Church?’ Interview with R J Campbell
May 18: Conquering and to Conquer: ‘The Pleasures of Reviewing’ (CCC).
May 25: The Name that is called Wonderful: Conan Doyle & WRN.
June 1: The Greatest Text in the Gospel [review of Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible].
June 8: The Critic’s Creed (Dr Samuel Davidson, review of biography).
June 15: Matthew Arnold as Critic [review]: Death of W G Blaikie.
June 22: Matthew Arnold as Theologian [review]: ‘An evening with Mark Twain’ (CCC).
June 29: Suggestions towards the Ethical Union (TLOS): ‘A Christian Daily Paper’ (CCC).
July 6: ‘Till the stars appeared’ [R.W. Dale’s Essays and Addresses reviewed by J.H. Jowett].
July 13: The judgment of Christian Employers: ‘The Art of Conversation’ (CCC).
July 20: Unaware of Angels (SE).
July 27: John Wesley’s three saints: ‘Some Northern professors’ (CCC)
Aug 3: The late William Wright of the Bible Society
Aug 10: Professor Bruce [obit]
Aug 17: Missionary strategy and permanent races
Aug 24: ‘Whatsoever thou spendest more.’ (TLOS)
Aug 31: How Christianity degenerates: The Northfield Convention (by F.B. Meyer)
Sept 7: The ritualists at bay: ‘A Holiday in two kinds’ (CCC)
Sept 14: ‘A leper as white as snow’ [Dreyfus condemned]: ‘The development of Authors’ (CCC)
Sept 21: The Preaching of Hall and Foster (TLOS)
Sept 28: ‘He would have gone further’ (SE): ‘Dr W F Moulton’ (CCC).
Oct 5: What can we do for Peace? [South Africa & the Boers]: ‘The Greatest of Anthologies’ (CCC)
Oct 12: The Next Revival of Religion [WRN]: Sunday opening of Theatres and Music Halls: ‘Young Oxford to the Rescue’ (CCC).
Oct 19: Dr Matheson’s Life of Christ [book review]: ‘Wine on the Lees’ (CCC)
Oct 26: We abode in the valley: Rebuilding the Metropolitan Tabernacle (Lorna [J T Stoddart]): ‘Some New Novels’ (CCC).
Nov 2: The Encyclopaedia Biblica [book review]: ‘Less said about the better’ (CCC).
Nov 9: The Blessedness of the Last Approach (SE): ‘The Ship of Stars’ (CCC)
Nov 16: The Evangelicals and the ‘Encyclopaedia Biblica’: ‘Not Easily Forgiven’ (CCC)
Nov 23: Ritschl – and after [review by James Orr]: ‘How to remember and how to forget’ (CCC).
Nov 30: The Words of the Lord Jesus [review of James Stalker’s Christology of Jesus]: ‘What to do with an Old Minister’ – Ian Maclaren
Dec 7: The Conveyance of the Divine thought: ‘Samuel – the cat’ (CCC)
Dec 14: Canon Hammond and Dr Watson: The Christmas Number – an illustrated biography of S R Crockett: ‘Notes on the last seven years of British Weekly’ (WRN)
Dec 21: Christianity and the War: Review of H Drummond’s last book by Marcus Dods: ‘The man in the street’ (CCC)
Dec 28: Is right might? [The Boer War]: ‘Mr Moody’ – G. Adam Smith: ‘Two Pleasant Books’ (CCC)
1900
Jan 4: ‘Thou He Slay – Him’: Diary of the War [comments on the Boer War]: ‘Bishop Benson’ (CCC)
Jan 11: Shall we win? [A South African]: Diary of the War
Jan 18: Will there be peace after the war? [A South African]
Jan 25: Are the Cape Dutch disloyal? [A South African]: ‘The pew and the man in it’ (by Ian Maclaren)
Feb 1: What is the task before us? [A South African]: ‘The Bonn and Webster Library’ (CCC)
Feb 8: ‘When the keepers of the house tremble’: ‘Another 50 Bonn books’ (CCC)
Feb 15: ‘Work’ and ‘glory’: ‘Concerning order and method’ (CCC)
Feb 22: No cross on the Sabbath Day [book review by WRN]: ‘Ralph O’Connor’ (CCC)
Mar 1: The Second Spring [Parker’s City Temple Pulpit reviewed]: ‘How Mr Spurgeon spent his week’ (CCC)
Mar 8: ‘Precarious’ (SE): The Transvaal situation: ‘Return to Grub Street’ (CCC)
Mar 15: The Dutch Reformed Church and war [by a South African]: ‘Two Irish Poetesses’ (CCC).
Mar 22: ‘Neither left nor forsaken’ (SE): ‘On the Notes of a True Bookman as discernable in T Seccombe’ (CCC).
Mar 29: ‘Principal Edwards’ (POTC): ‘Memorial Sketches’: ‘Edward Fitz-Gerald’ (CCC)
April 5: Has the Liberal Party finished its work? ‘The History of Punch’ (CCC)
April 12: Where is the risen Lord? (SE): ‘The Founders of New College, Edinburgh – Principal Rainy’: ‘The Faringdons’ (CCC)
April 19: The Sin of the Masterful Man; ‘The Zest of Life’ (CCC)
April 26: Sunday school teachers and the Higher Criticism
May 3: The Passion of Cower (TLOS): ‘On the prevailing shortness of Temper’ (CCC)
May 10: Our Lord’s use of the immortal hope: ‘The sin of laziness’ (CCC)
May 17: The Last Synod [The United Presbyterian Church before uniting with the Free Church]: ‘The sin of over-work’ (CCC)
May 24: Many widows – many lepers: ‘Dr MacEwen on the Erskines – Mr Snell on Wesley’ (CCC).
May 31: The secession church [by Principal Fairbairn]: Dr Snell on Wesley and Methodism’ (CCC)
June 7: Bishop Ryle – and after [review of some sermons]: Interview with J R Miller: ‘Brilliance’ (CCC).
June 14: Not afraid of sackcloth (TLOS): Farewell counsel to students – P T Forsyth: ‘Charles Henry Pearson’ (CCC).
June 21: Be sober [WRN on South African War]: ‘The happy life’ (CCC).
June 28: The English church union and transubstantiation: ‘Mr Henley and Mr G W Stevens’ (CCC).
July 5: Illustrations of conversion ‘On some bad habits’ (CCC)
July 12: Mr J Hay Thorburn [of the Evening Dispatch, Edinburgh]: Appreciation article on Principal Rainy: ‘Speaking’ (CCC).
July 19: The Empress Dowager and her ‘tiger ride’ [by T G Selby]: ‘A country minister’s library’ (WRN): George Meredith (WRN).
July 26: The Personality of the Word of God (SE): ‘On the Arts of Correcting and Being Corrected’ (CCC)
Aug 2: The Life of the Spirit born: Liberals at War: ‘Some questions about holidays’ (CCC).
Aug 9: The revival of a minister [by Ian Maclaren]: The Liberal Party on the Eve of Election by R W Perks
Aug 16: Christ’s appeal to the intellect [by George Jackson]
Aug 23: From henceforth expecting [by H Elvet Lewis]: ‘Miss Jane Jones – Mr Shorter once more’ (CCC).
Aug 30: The Hope for Liberalism
Sept 6: The Beatitude of the weak: Interview with James Orr: ‘Dustrious’ (CCC)
Sept 13: St Paul’s view of marriage: ‘Should old letters be kept?’ (CCC)
Sept 20: That the world may know: ‘When Tree Stars came out’ (CCC).
Sept 27: The true issue of the Battle [General Election]: ‘Thomas Edward Brown’ (CCC).
Oct 4: The tasks before us [The Khaki Election Fever]: ‘Miss Stoddart’s Life of Rosebery’ (CCC)
Oct 11: The Oxford round table: Results of the election: ‘The Simple Gospel – P T Forsyth: ‘George MacDonald’s Hymn Book’ (CCC)
Oct 18: The Work of the Holy Spirit: ‘Minister’s Jubilee – Robert Taylor’ (CCC)
Oct 25: ‘Which is called Patmos’ (SE): ‘Charles Garrett’ (Joseph Parker): ‘Coventry Patmore, Free Church of Scotland & H S Sutton’ (CCC).
Nov 1: ‘Irene Petrie’ [review of biography of a missionary to Kashmir]: ‘Poems by prelates’ (CCC)
Nov 8: ‘It doth not yet appear’ [The United Free Church]: Special article on the occasion in Edinburgh (WRN): ‘A Napoleon of the Press’ (CCC).
Nov 15: Common Grace: Dr Watson’s Theology by R F Horton: ‘Gratitude’ (CCC)
Nov 22: The Unsearchable Poverty of Christ: Letter from John Clifford on the London School board Election: ‘The art of taking things coolly’ (CCC)
Nov 29: He shall not speak of Himself (SE): ‘Children’s Sayings’ (CCC).
Dec 6: Drinking of the brook in the way: Darby and Darbyism [New series]: D L Moody (by R F Horton)
Dec 13: The Holy Child Jesus: ‘Study of Joseph Hocking’ by Lorna [J T S]: ‘Memories of the Manse’ (WRN) [supplement].
Dec 20: The Ground of Christian Optimism: ‘Meditation at Pau’ (CCC)
Dec 28: The Sin of Sins (SE): Frank Bullen’s Religious Autobiography: ‘Anthony Trollope on the problems of the day’ (CCC)