/2 LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PRINCETON. N. J.

Purchased by the Hamill Missionary Fund.

DT 108.3 .G65 Gordon, Charles George, 183 -1 885 .

The journals of Major-Gen. C . G.. Gordon . C . B . . at MR. BOULGER'S LIFE OF GENERAL GORDON.* y«~Theimpressionof General Gordon's character left u>y a perusal of this work will be different on different minds. Many, we aro persuaded, who read his numerous memoranda, letters, and dicta on public affaiis will be most struck with his •extraordinary foresight and practical sagncity. He was essentially a practical man; his mind had the rare and invaluable quality of discerning what was vital in any problem and what could be omitted from consideration as immaterial. Many of his observations seem almost like inspiration, Jso completely were they justified by subsequent vents. This power, coupled with the simplicity >f his life and a deep vein of mysticism, suggest a Resemblance to another mighty Englishman, Oliver Cromwell. That there wa3 much in comiun between the two is obvious ; if Gordon's blood had run more slowly, if his temperament lad been less mercurial, the resemblance would ie greater. Sir. Boulger,in the following passage, rhich is taken from the chapter on Gordon's fcrst lission to the Sudan, speaks some plain words a popular, though erroneous, conception of jordcn :— " I have affirmed, and shalr*adduco )pious and, as I think, convincing evidence, at Sveryturn of his varied esperiencesjthat the true "lordqn was not the meek, colourless, milk-aadrater, text-expounding, theological disputant nany would have us accept as a kind of Bunyan's lero, but in action au uncompromising and resistless leader, who, when he smote," at once 3truck his hardest." &&.jb.tf(c}