The Best Books on Missions Thinking Black By Dan Crawford. This is a record The Mission o f Our Nation
By James Franklin Love. In this vol ume the author presents as the fundamental ground for home missions and good piti- ' zenship a proposition' which the book suc cessfully expounds. It is specifically a home mission discussion on broad lines with a foreign mission inference and objective. ............................................................................... $ 1.00 In Red Man’s Land By Francis E. Leupp, former U. S. Commissioner o f Indian Affairs. Mr. Leupp writes from intimate knowledge and appreciation o f Indian life and character. Beginning with the aboriginal red man, he presents the relations'of the Indian to the Government^, to his white neighbors and to our social order. Paper, 30c; cloth............................. 50c The American Indian on the New Trail , By Thomas G. Moffett. This is the story o f the Church’s enterprise in giving the native American race the Christian gospel. It is more fascinating and worthy o f closer study than the history o f Indian warfare. It treats o f the subject in a com prehensive survey, giving many facts and exact data. Paper, 40c; cloth............................ 65c The Frontier By Ward Platt. This book scans the outlines o f the new; frontier and marks a few o f its home missionary opportunities. It points out strategic positions and palls attention to certain centers where multi tudes were gathering in 1908 for a momen tou s world movement. The Lords o f the Devil’s Paradise By G. Sydney Paternoster. A thrilling story o f the “ Putomayo Atrocities” in the rubber collecting regions, o f the Upper Amazon in South America/ Cloth ........................................................ $1.75 Ten Years Near the Arctic Circle By J. J. Armistead. The author has
o f twenty-two years withput a break in the long grass o f Central Africa. It is an interesting and thrilling recital o f mis sionary life and adventure, and takes up and concludes some o f the work o f the great David Livingstone. A recent reviewer characterizes TH INK ING BLACK as “one o f the greatest books o f African life and speech, linked with Christian enter prise and success, that has ever been writ ten.” ..........................-.................... ........« ...........$ 2.00 The Unoccupied Mission Fields of Africa and Asia By Samuel M. Zwemer. We have here a survey o f the extent and condition o f the wholly unoccupied mission fields o f A frica and Asia including Malaysia, from the standpoint o f Protestant missions, and o f the questions that bear on. their occu pation. Paper, 50c; cloth...................... .............$1.00 Mexico Today By George B. Winton. This deals with the social, political, and, religious conditions o f Mexico. The readers o f this book will become enlightened as to her condition, and it will result in leading them to sympathize with her.and in filling them with a desire to aid in the spread o f the religion o f Christ in this needy land. Paper, 40c; cloth......................................65c The New America By Mary Clark Barnes and Lemuel Call Barnes. A study in immigration. “ In brief, lucid form this book describes the beginnings and developments o f immigra tion in the United States, shows the ten dency o f the foreign element, with its influ ence upon pauperism, agriculture, indus try^ criminology,' religion, etc., in the United States. This is not a manual o f statistics, but a thoroughly‘ digested book for reading .”—Christian Advocate. Paper, 30c; cloth ............................. 50c Home Missions in Action By Edith H, Allen. This book empha sizes the vitality, needs, and, accomplish ments o f home missions, with a suggestion o f the social responsibility o f the Church, and the vision o f the wider scope o f home missions in relation to the vital concerns and needs o f the nations and the obliga tions imposed by the present era. It is rich'" in suggestions. —- ..... -------- .......50c
had ten years experience o f life amongst the islands o f the, north, during which time he has lived in boats, in tents, and in the houses o f the people,-to say nothing o f nights spent under a blanket on the bare hillsides. Cloth ....... ......................... ...................... $1.40 Order from the BIOLA BOOK ROOM, Los Angeles, California.
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