THE BOOK THAT CONVERTED DR. JOHNSON.
William Law's "Serious Call," which Bishop Gore recommends to his diocese for Lc-nteu reading, was the work that converted Dr. Johnson: "I became a sort of lax talker against religion," said the sage of Fleet Street to Boswcll, "until I went to Oxford, whero I took up Law's 'Serious Call," expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me, and this was tho first occasion of my thinking iu earnest of religion." Johnson oneo pronounced tho "Serious Call" to be the "finest piece of horatory theology in any language." Law's masterpiece has also been highly praised, not only by Wesley and Whitofield, but even by such avowed enemies of Christian orthodoxy as Gibbon and the lato Sir Leslie Stephen.—"Westminster Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 12
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144THE BOOK THAT CONVERTED DR. JOHNSON. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 12
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