The Best Books on Missions Japan and Its Regeneration By Otis Cary. This volume is intended The Kingdom in India
By Jacob Chamberlain. These true stories show the progress and the-promise o f the kingdom in this benighted land. A biographical sketch o f the author is fol lowed by eighteen chapters o f stories and facts. He gives the present outlook in India and the actual progress' o f the cam paign. ............................. .......... ......... ................ $1.50 India Awakening By Sherwood Eddy. This is a series o f studies on special phases o f its subject. The illustrations , are taken from the author’s personal experience. He-has also had an exceptional opportunity o f getting a bird’s-eye view o f the work o f the mis sionaries all over the Empire for nearly twenty years. This “millionaire mission ary” is too well known to need an introduc tion to Christian readers. Paper, 40 c; cloth ......................................65c The Price o f Africa By S. Earl Taylor. This book is one o f the Forward Mission Study Courses; edited by Amos R. Wells and S. JEarl Tay lor. A chapter ié devoted to each o f the four great missionaries: David Living stone, Adolphus C. Good, Alexander M. Mackay, qnd Melville B. Cox. Paper, 40c; cloth......................................65c Daybreak in the Dark Continent By Wilson S. Naylor. This book also, belongs* to the Forward Missiqn Study Courses. The title o f the book is sug gestive o f the present conditions in Africa, Many wonderful things have come to pass in these firsi hours o f God’s day for Africa. The author is exceptionally. -well qualified to write on his subject. In addi tion to much research, he spent a year studying at first hand, (on both coasts and in widely . separated sections) the conti nent and its people. Paper, 40 c; cloth......................................65c A Miracle o f African Missions By John Bell. The story o f the con version o f Matula and his ^unswerving faithfulness to Christianity under cruel persecution is a most wonderful one. Born in darkest Africa’ under the most degrad ing conditions o f witchcraft, superstition, hideoUs cruelty and inhuman customs, the recital o f his courage and perseverance seems almost beyond belief. The insight given into the homes o f the natives and the. proceedings o f their unique “court o f jus tice” are decidedly interesting. 60c
for mission study classes. The reader finds here a story o f the most astounding transformation within a few years that can be found in all history, and that, too, in our own. generation. It would be uhfair to overlook the importance o f the mission ary factor in these sweeping changes. Paper, 35c; cloth......................................50c The Moslem World By Samuel M. Zwemer. The table of contents gives a clear idea o f the ground covered by this volume. I. The Great Arabian Prophet. II. The Spread o f His Religion. III. What the Moslems Believe and Practice. IV. A General View o f the Moslem World’. V. Social and Moral Evils of. Islam. VI. The Story o f Mis sions to Moslems. VII. The Present Problem and Peril. 'VIII. The Day o f Opportunity. _ Paper, 40c; cloth........................ .;.......... 65c Overweights o f Joy By Amy Wilson-Carmichael. T. Walker, a~missionary for twenty years in southern India, endorses these dreadful facts as being entirely true, The indiffer ence to the glad tidings o f the Gospel; the untold crudities that abound; the foul and deep abyss which is glorified by the sanc tions o f religion, and the fact that the fight is an uphill one—all these conditions are absolutely true. .............................................................................. $ 1.00 Lotus Buds By Amy Wilson-Carmichael. This book is written with delicacy, romance and compassion. Despite the darkness o f some o f the pictures that it paints, its pages are plentiful in humor. A valuable feature is the fifty illustrations from photographs, most o f them children. It describes with revolt and passion the unnameable phys ical and moral horrors o f childhood In the East, and tells, partly by picture, partly by language, the cheprful change which is being wrought by Christianity. ............................................................................................................ , . . . . $ 2.00 A Life for God in India By Helen S. Dyer. Memorials o f Mrs. Jennie Fuller of Akola and Bombay. These pages describe’ , unevangelized India three decades ago, and show the vastness o f the need. Mrs. Fuller’s preparation for the work and her experiences make an interest ing narrative. The growth o f the work, the famine orphans, the opium plague, and- many other intensely interesting topics are pictured with truth and vividness. iSS eS ...................................... 75c
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