The Expository Times says: "The Publishers have never done a greater service to Christian teaching than they have done now in determining to republish these expository papers."
The Church Family Newspaper says: "It is a gigantic task for one man to carry through, covering, as apparently is intended, the whole Bible. But if the subsequent volumes are up to the standard of the first, it will indeed be a 'great work,' not only in bulk but in usefulness."
The Baptist Times says: "To have the expository utterances of so great a teacher before us in a systematic and connected form is a priceless boon to the Churches."
The Bishop of Manchester, Dr. Moorhouse, at Dr. Maclaren's Jubilee said: "Thirty years ago I was studying with great profit the published sermons of the man whom we are honouring to-day. In an age which has been charmed and inspired by the sermons of Newman and Robertson of Brighton, there were no published discourses which for profundity of thought, logical arrangement, eloquence of appeal, and power of the human heart, exceeded in merit those of Dr. Maclaren."
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