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London Society for Promoting Chris tianity Amongst the Jews, the oldest mission agency, had adopted some thing of this method in 1875, when it founded a special auxiliary society known as “ The Parochial Mission to the Jews at Home and Abroad.” The conference on the Christian approach to the Jews, convened at Budapest and Warsaw in 1927, promoted work with the Jews within local congregations. The National Lutheran Council re ported in 1948 a study of this parish program. Special problems arise. Trained workers are sometimes need ed on the local church staff. The local congregation requires some re conditioning in many cases. The re sults have been found to be encourag ing and to produce in a varying degree a “ Hebrew-Christian” church, which after all was the pattern of the early church. 222 pages; cloth; Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich.; $3.95. This is the author’s last book, for snice writing it, he has gone to be with his Lord. His former books translated into English have dealt in a masterly way with basic themes of Scriptural revelation: redemption, the divine plan of the ages, and the Chris tian life. The present volume gathers up two strands of truths and weaves them into a strong cord: as the sub title says, “ The nobility of man ac cording to the Bible and Science.” This is not to exalt man in his own strength or unregenerate being, but to present the picture of what God intended man to be in His creation and regeneration. The “high calling of man” is viewed in the light of eternity and the uni verse as a background. Man is “ in a flight from God,” and yet is held fast in the grip of God’s purpose and plan. The Bible, of course, is the only source of this revelation. On the physical plane, Sauer points out that “ the ma terialistic, mechanistic, nineteenth- century concept of the universe has collapsed” (p. 34). The atom, which had previously been thought to be the something static and invisible, was found to be “ a world of frantic, whirling movement.” The atom, which had been considered to be the “ solution” of all matter, now is seen as “ the great riddle.” The basic doctrines of communism and evolution were formed out of the nineteenth century concepts of sci ence. These concepts are now for the most part no longer valid. God and man both in the light of the new physics looms much larger than they The King of the Earth By Erich Sauer
Book Reviews (cont.) God’s Word. 188 pages; cloth; Moody Press, Chicago, 111.; $3.50.—Reviewed by Dr. Nickolas Kurtaneck, Biola College. Facing the Unfinished Task Compiled by J. O. Percy This volume contains the messages (41 of them) delivered at the Con gress on World Missions sponsored by the Interdenominational Foreign Mis sions Association of North America, held in December, 1960. The speakers include many of the missionary lead ers of America and some foreign lands. Alphabetically they run from David Adenay and Vincent Brush- wyler to Charles J. Woodbridge and Jack Wyrtzen. The day of missions is not past, as some would have us think. These leaders point up the difficulties, as well as the opportunities, of the pres ent hour. Statistically “ we are fail ing,” but as God’s will is followed, His witness is delivered in more parts of the world now than ever before. One quotation on -the Auca story is worth repeating: “ The five mission aries who were martyred by the Au- cas had loaded revolvers in their pos session. They could have saved their lives. But that is not the reason why God sent them into the jungles. Rath er than send one of those Indians to hell, they let the Indians murder them. Because those five missionaries were willing to lose their lives, the Aucas today are hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ” (p. 281). (Later re ports say that all the murderers have now professed Christ.) — 281 pages; cloth; Zondervan Pub. House, Grand Rapids; $4.50. After having been engaged in mis sionary work to the Jews for a period of thirty-two years, the author shares his experience and wisdom. He learned that first he had to hurdle the language barrier by learning both Yiddish and Hebrew. This paid large dividends in the field of literature, as well as in communication with the Jews. The prejudice barrier was the hard est to overcome. The first efforts were in the settlement type of program. Even though there was an attractive building and there was an active pro gram, the author found that there were few baptisms. This led to a re study of the Biblical foundation of Jewish missions. By the “ home front” he now means parish evangelism. The The Home Front of Jewish Missions By A lbert Huisjen
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