876 enemy. He has risen and ascended, and He rules. In His safekeeping are all faithful souls, and, we may surely say, the bodies which were once the homes of these spirits. It is He who takes care of the passing soul and as a magnet, drows it upward to Himself. It is toward Him that the great forces of love go forth. This fact carries reunion with it. Our gathering together unto Him in the next life, to know and to be known of Him, will of itself make nec essary our knowledge of one another. He who inspired the human love that now seeks its own, He who was Himself strengthened and solaced thereby dur ing the earthly years when He walked softly in the bitterness of His soul, will never deny us our hearts’ desire.” In addition to the Scripture study of the subject, the author gives a number of chapters to the expressions of famous writers, showing their beliefs regarding immortality. While some of these might not in every detail accord with Scrip ture, they at least serve to show that the greatest minds have always believed in the eternal existence of the spirit and yearned for a condition of life free from the limitations of this present life. Greatest Thoughts .About Jesus Christ A book that will be of great value to Christian workers as a reference work is the recent compilation by Rev. J. Gilchrist Lawson under the above title. It is topically arranged and gathers to gether in one volume the great thoughts of the world’s famous preachers, states men, judges, literary men, historians, scientists and even Jews and skeptics, concerning Jesus Christ. “What think ye of Christ?”—the supreme character of history and the one real center of the world’s best activity? What have the greatest minds been compelled to admit concerning Him? We believe this work is Mr. Lawson’s greatest and most valuable contribution to Christian workers of all classes. The price is $1.50. Through My Bible Chapter by Chapter We want to recommend to all young Bible students a book of the above title published by the Biola Book Room, as suggesting what many believe is the most practical and thorough method of Bible study for beginners as well as a very profitable line for the older stu-
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S dent. In reality it is not a book at all, for most of its pages consist of white spaces in which the student is to write the result of his own study. It is the chapter summary method of Bible study, worked out on a little more ex tensive scale than heretofore developed. For each chapter, space is given for the student to write out his deductions on the following points: The principal characters, the most important events, the promises, conditions to promises, memory verses, greatest spiritual les son, how the Lord Jesus is seen, how the Holy Spirit is seen. By the time the student has worked out for himself these points, he has been given a good insight into the chapter under study and will have developed some practical sug gestions for his own life. In the front of the book full directions are given for this kind of study, with specimen work. The price of the book is but 35c, al though of course more than one book is required to cover the entire Bible. Young peoples’ classes should be urged to take up this line of work. Interest ing classes may be conducted by com paring the conclusions of the different students on given chapters, and the teacher by using “The Summarized Bible” (Brooks) which is a complete chapter summary of the whole Bible, may give additional help to, the mem bers of the class. Classes along this line have been very successfully con ducted by the Bible women of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. ■ .¿fe. w> m RETREAT OP UNBELIEF It is simple, veritable fact, that unbe lief, however loud in its trumpetings, has never been able to make good its vaunts in the face of the simple power of living Christianity. It is in times when the Church hag become cold and formal, when it has forgotten its first works, and the fruits of the Spirit have not been manifest in holy deeds, that unbelief has had its temporary tri umphs. Whenever the spirit of earn estness in religion has revived, and the Gospel has been preached with faith fulness and power by men who have experienced its saving virtue in them selves, unbelief has had to retreat all along the line. ■—Prof. James Orr.
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