August 1927
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S eptember 2. “Maran-atha.’ìérl Cor. 16:22.
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" B e s t ” B o o k s On subjects that you should be intensely interested in—Right now— The Revolt of Asia By Upton Close Our reviewer says: “I have just finished reading for the second time this very remarkable book. No other recent book has so related the nationalistic movement throughout Asia, in the Far and Near East, as has this one. I have been waiting for someone with knowledge, ability and courage to present this question and to break away from the trodden path of prejudice and propaganda, and I am most gratified upon your arrival. It is a pro foundly interesting and instructive book. Easily the most valuable recent work of the Far East. Its timeliness is amazing. The most interesting interpretation of Asia s political flux now extant.** Cloth $2.50
TH E SE are two Syriac words signifying, “The Lord cometh,” or “The Lord is come,” and these should not be con nected, as ■ they too often are, with the Anathema which precedes them. In fact they are the golden bridge over which we pass from the “anathema” (i.e. “accursed”) to become par takers of “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.” We were accursed because we did not love Him ; but He has come, and in His coming there is the possibility of salvation and of grace, He came that we might be accursed no more; He came that He might bear our curse and carry it away for ever. No man need be anathema any longer, since He Who came is willing to shed abroad His love in our hearts; But further, the Lord not only hath come, but cometh. Morning, noon, and night He comes to us, His loved ones, in an ever-repeated advent, that we may be partakers of His grace. Blind we are sometimes, that we do not see Him; deaf, that His tender accents do not reach our ears; but He is there none the less; there with His favor and His love; with His strength and with His peace; with all that is included in that marvelous word “grace” : and just as a bridegroom delights to deck the bride with ornaments and to enfold her in his love, so Christ longs to adorn us with His jewels, and to protect and enrich us with all the affection of His infinite favor and delight. Maran-atha—the Lord cometh— one day He will come in all His glory to receive us to Himself, that where He is there we may be also. For this let us ring the joybells of our hearts. TH E SE words were spoken, of course, not of the Son of God, but of the Son of man. Most people would stare at you if you spoke to them of “a gospel of pain.” How can suffering and good news have any relation the one to the other? Yet it is true that without afflictions we could never be perfected. We ask, not for a blessing, but for a curse, when we pray that we may live lives of untroubled peace and rest. Christian virtues can only grow by exercise. We could have no patience were we never tried; no real sympathy if we never suffered; no faith in God if there were no experience of testing. How could we learn the grace of forgiveness if it were not for offences; how be brave if we were never beset with danger? These'things are permitted that we may come to perfection—the perfection of ability and usefulness. For we are intended, as “the Captain of our salvation” was intended, to “bring many sons to glory.” That is one of the first purposes of our deliverance from the bondage of sin. For that work we need to be fitted, as was the Lord, by the discipline of suffering. Let us then thank God and take courage. Let us strive to rejoice in the repeated trials— though we may not be able to rejoice because of them—know ing that they are working out in us the Father’s purpose. Let us remember that the same hand which supported Jesus of Nazareth through the years of suffering and of sorrow is holding ours as we tread the weary pathway of disappointment, of distress, of pain. Let us pray that through no rebellion of spirit, through no blindness of vision, through no hardness of heart, we may miss the blessing which these bitter experiences are intended to bestow. S eptember 3. "P erfect through sufferings^’^ -A eb. 2:10.
God’s Prophecies for Plain People
The World's Unrest: Visions of the Dawn By Christabel Pankhurst A thoughtful and very com prehensive study and analysis of world conditions, and our reviewer says this is a difficult book to lay down till it has been read through to the end, and the Christian who denies himself the opportunity of reading it is doing himself a real injustice. It is no extravagance to say th at it will transform the m ental and spiritual life of every thoughtful, open-minded reader. $2.00 Bible Lands of Today By W illiam T . Ellis This is a unique work in th at, so far as is known, Dr. Ellis is the first man to make a comprehensive tour through the entire area covered by the Old and New Testam ents. In his accou nt ■of the countries visited, he gives a fearless portrayal of the present a s p ect of these lands. He tells what is actually going on in them today, and describes sig nificant tendencies and condi tions as he observed them in his great journey through the thick of the earth’s great problem zone. Seventy-one il lustrations. Cloth $3.00
By W . E . Pettingill, D.D. This book consists of a se ries of articles, seventeen in number, which appeared in the Sunday School Times. They deal with the second ad vent of our Lord and the con necting events. The premillen- nial point of view is taken and the usual futurist inter pretation is maintained. W rit ten in the plainest manner, the truths treated are not above the ordinary reader. Cloth $1.25 This compilation of new m issionary stories tells of in spiring lives of Christian con v erts on the foreign field. The fifty stories, each brief, con cise and revealing, com e from all p arts of the world, and re late incidents in the Christian experience of men and women of all grades of life— poor and rich, humble and famous, black, white, yellow, red and brown. W orkers in Sabbath schools, m issionary meetings and m ission study classes, and also preachers of m ission ary sermons, * will find them very usable and effective. Cloth $1.50 From Every Tribe and Nation By Belle M. Brain
China Today Through Chinese Eyes By Dr. T. T. Lew and Others This book deals with the different phases of the revo lutionary movement now sweeping China. It is certainly informing. It offers a clear statement of The New Tide of Thought and the intellectual, economic and religious forces in the background of it. The value of the book is enhanced by the fact that China of today is seen through Chinese eyes— and the eyes of the very well informed. China’s viewpoint is very evident and is worthy of se rious consideration by those who would be well informed in the matter of changes in the unchanging East, and especially by those who have to do with the evangeliza tion of China’s millions. The book is a valuable con tribution to current missionary literature and eminently worth reading. Cloth $1.25 If money does not accom pany order, goods will be sent C. O. D. If goods are to com e by m ail add 10% for postage. B I O L A B O O K R O O M Bible Institute, Los Angeles, Cal.
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