Kuiper Sermons

While I was at the Banner Iain Murray told me I must get this new Banner book While the Bridegroom Tarries. I had overlooked it on my first visit to the bookshop.
It is a collection of 10 sermons preached in 1919 by Dutch American pastor R B Kuiper. With sometimes striking titles such as "Present day Anti-Christs" and "Latter day Devil-worship" these sermons from various texts look at the issue of the Second Coming in a way that seeks to shed light rather than to satisfy curiosity. They are of interest on at least three levels - on their own terms, as a homiletical guide and as an interesting historical document. On the first level they seek to soberly encourage Christians and warn unbelievers. On the second, these are sermons that seek to be a little more broad in their outlook than the narrow and individualistic sermons that are more often preached. They reminded me in some ways of Lloyd-Jones. From a historical point of view his horror at women's suffrage, his speaking out against theosophy, the infancy of the JW cult and his views on the Jews returning to Palestine are all of interest.
Few of us book has an attractive cover. The publisher's introduction and the sparse footnotes are helpful and the text is generally free from proof reading errors, though stray punctuation marks appear from time to time.