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By Donald G. Davis, Ph.D. Prof, of Church History, Talbot Theological Seminary
in rural America J i m m y is ten this year, and he thinks living on a farm is wonderful. To him rural America is a swimming hole or a ride atop a hayrack in the summertime — skimming across a frozen pond or sliding down a hill in winter.
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This is not a true anthropology, although subtitled Anthropology for Christian Missions ; it is rather a work intended by the author to provoke an interest on the part of missionaries in “the invaluable- assistance which the science of anthropology ean pro vide,” to use his own words. Much of the data used is taken from notes collected during travel in some 50 countries as Secretary for Transla tions with the American Bible So ciety. Missionaries and those inter ested in missions will find the book most useful. It abounds in usable illustrations and is well documented. 306 pages; cloth; Harper & Brothers, New York; $4.00. The Bu rden Is Light By Eugenia Price This is Eugenia Price’s story of her childhood, youth, radio career and conversion. She has subtitled her story The Autobiography of a Transformed Pagan. There is a great deal of sophistication in the book, and her greatest help toward salvation con fessedly came from Dr. Samuel Shoe maker, of the Oxford Group Move ment (Moral Rearmament), and one of his converts, her best friend. Miss Price is the writer-director-producer of the radio program, “Unshackled,” which presents over a network stem ming from WGN, Chicago, the con versations of skid row characters at Pacific Garden Mission. 221 pages; cloth; Fleming H. Revell Co., West- wood, N.J.; $2.50. 4 5 0 True S tories F rom Chureh H isto r y By J. Vernon Jacobs This useful collection of anecdotes from church history comes from the hand of a leader among the Disciples of Christ. Each selection is credited to its source, although not by page number, which would have improved the work. The arrangement is al phabetical, and a topical index con cludes the. book. Pastors and teachers will be able to make wide use of this tool. 147 pages; cloth; Wm. B. Eerd- mans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; $2.50. S tewardsh ip Studies By Roy L. Smith An outstanding Methodist minister and journalist here presents 237 one- CONTINUED
Buc sometimes a rural community can be lonely for a boy. And a boy like Jimmy misses out on some pretty important things, too. Sunday School, for instance. Jimmy has never been to Sunday School— the nearest church is 40 miles away. He’s never heard the Gospel story or
That’s why the American Sunday School Union sends out missionaries to America’s rural communities to start Sunday Schools. These missionaries now minister to nearly 180,000 families each year — conducting more than 2,468 Sunday Schools and 1,576 Daily Vaca tion Bible Schools. These Schools must be kept active— and many more must be started — if boys like Jimmy are to hear the Gospel. Your prayerful sup port of the American Sunday School Union will help take a Sunday School to Jimmy. Will you answer this need?
sung “Jesus Loves Me." You may think that's unusual, but actually there are thousands of children in rural Amer ica who've never gone to a Sunday School.
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