THE KING’S BUSINESS 1149 The Best Books for Christmas Giving A FEW CHOICE BOOKS AT SOMEWHAT HIGHER PRICES Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible By Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Recom My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
mended by all denominations as the best written and best illustrated book on the subject. The complete Bible story, run ning from Genesis to Revelation, told in the simple language o f today for young and old. j Self-pronouncing. 168 stories, each complete in itself, and together form ing a connected narrative o f the Holy Scripture. Profusely illustrated with color plates and half-tone engravings. Flexible morocco binding, i Price ............................. $3.75 Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible By Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Same as above. Cloth bound. Price .............. $1.50 Fairest Girlhood By Margaret E. Sangster. With draw ings by Griselda Marshall McClure. The author says: “ I f an apology were needed for modestly adding another to the num ber o f books written especially for girls, I might make it in a single sentence. So much o f my life has been devoted to work sfenong girls, so large is the circle o f whom I think as I write to them, and so intimate is my knowledge o f their hopes and aims, that I am assured o f a hearing when I send forth this little book.” The “little” book contains 260 pages and is well illus trated. Bound in cream-colored cloth ornamented in gilt. Boxed. Price ......................................................$1.50 By John Henry Jowett. A series of choice talks on selected texts—a spiritual meditation for every day in the year. They are messages to the heart from the heart" o f one who knows men and the Saviour of men. For example, the meditation on The Safety o f the Occupied Heart (Gal. 5:16- 25) : “Two friends were cycling through Worcestershire and Warwickshire to Birm ingham. When they arrived in Birming ham I asked them if they had seen War wick Gaol along the road. ‘No,’ they said, ‘we never saw it.’ Ah, but these friends' were lovers. . . . They were otherwise engaged.” And we must be otherwise en gaged, Dr. Jowett says, if we would resist temptation. Leather bound. Boxed. Price $2 My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
By John Henry Jowett. Same as above. Bound in green cloth with gilt let tering. Price ................................... $1.25 The Psalms in Human Life By Rowland E. Prothero. The Sun day School Times says: “ All readers o f this paper should get Prothero’s ‘The Psalms in Human Life’ and read there the instances in which the Psalms have either determined human life or supplied utter ance. to it in its time o f greatest meaning.” Every page is a song in prose. Valuable for preacher and layman alike. About 400 pages. Cloth bound. Price ..................................................... $1.50 The Ideal Christian Home By Helen S. Dyer. A book for all on the threshold o f life’s duties. The home portrayed in these pages is based on the presence o f the Lord Jesus Christ, as Saviour from sin, and King in heart and life. Where He thus reigns, all is made subservient to His purposes, regulated by His laws, governed by His supreme love, and garrisoned by His peace—shedding the rich aroma o f His presence on all around. Bound in white cloth, with fed ornamenta tion and gilt lettering. Price ......................................................$1.50 The Queenly Mother By Margaret E-. Sangster. The chap ters that compose this book deal with themes that appeal chiefly to the wife and mother, although they touch on various phases o f the domestic question, and have their message for men as urgently as for women. Bound in red with gilt ornament ation and lettering. Beautifully illustrated. Boxed. Price ........... $1.50 The Story of the Bible By Charles Foster. A book that stands on a par with Hurlbut’s Story o f the Bible. The whole Bible in an interesting, continuous form for children and older persons.' J. Wilbur Chapman says o f this book: “ It is a pleasure to see the new edition o f the STORY OF THE BIBLE, by Charles Foster, and to know that more than 750,000 copies o f it in the former edi tions have been sold. It is my practice to recommend this book everywhere I go, and I shall do so with even greater enthusiasm from this time on.” Cloth bound.
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