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and oratorios to Him, while tramp ling His Gospel by word and deed under foot—what is all this but a Judas-kiss with which men have the audacity to pollute His face?” One cannot read this book and re main indifferent to the price paid for his eternal redemption. He cannot peruse it without being drawn to the Man of Calvary. He cannot study it without desiring to walk closer to the Lord. For a devotional book, it would be difficult to secure anything better. But so scholarly is its content that it is equally helpful as a refer ence book for Christian workers and Bible students. Included are a biographical intro duction by Dr. Wilbur M. Smith and a list of the principal publications of this author whch have been trans lated into English. The editors and publishers are to be commended for the labor ex pended on this volume and for their purpose in putting it into attractive and readable form for the Christian public. 444 pages. Moody Press, Chi cago, 111. Cloth. Price $3.50. In ten chapters, this missionary writer takes Big Peanuts, a very real little African boy, through as many exciting, true to everyday African life experiences. The junior age reader will not only love the little black hero, Little Brother, and Littlest Brother, but he will be impressed with the simple and graphic story of the power of the Gospel to change the life of the heathen child. A dozen illustrations add to the attractiveness of this small volume. 79 pages. Moody Press, Chicago, 111. Cloth. Price 60c. BIG PEANUTS, by Lucilda A. Newton.
THE SUFFERING SAVIOUR, by F. W. Krummacher. First in the new Wycliffe series of Christian classics, this is one of the most valuable reprints to reach the Christian public in years. F. W. Krummacher, 1796-1868, was the greatest evangelical preacher of his day in Europe, served as chaplain to the king of Prussia, and was au thor of at least thirty remarkable volumes dealing with the great themes of the Christian faith. For beauty of expression, literary excellence, and spiritual fervency, this book cannot be surpassed. So vivid are the descriptions of the suf ferings and death of Jesus, one feels as he reads them that he was ac tually there when the events took place. The book breathes worship, love and adoration of the Son of God. Based upon sound Scriptural teaching, it is entirely lacking in a weak sentimentality. The book is divided into three parts, appropriately entitled, "The Outer Court,” “The Holy Place,” and "The Most Holy Place,” each division representing an increasing agony in the Lord’s redemptive sufferings, culminating in the cross. There are fifty-three chapters, all interesting and moving. There is not a dull sen tence in the book. Some passages reach the heights of human utterance, as, for instance, these words from the magnificent chapter on “The Crucifixion” : “Alas! alas! what is it that now takes place on that bloody hill? O heart of stone in our breasts, why dost thou not break? Why, thou cold and obdurate rock, dost thou not dissolve in tears of blood? There He stands, whose garment was once the light, and the stars of heaven the fringe of His robe, covered only with the crimson of His blood, and divested of all that adorned Him, hot only before men, but also in His character as Surety . . .” In the chapter entitled, “The Trai tor’s Kiss,” there are these searching words for the Christian: “For hypo- ritieally to confess Him with the mouth, while the conduct belies Him —to exalt the virtues of His human- ty to the skies, while divesting Him >f His divine glory, and tearing the :rown of universal majesty from His ead—to sing enthusiastic hymns UGUST, 1947
SUN IN THE STREET, by John Leonard Lovdahl.
Chosen by the Moody Press as the first-place winner in their recent Distinguished Christian Fiction Con test, this book is entirely worthy of that honor. Against the background of France’s revolutionary days, the author pre sents “rugged, God-fearing Georges Gerot, frugal, hard-working Mama Gerot, Jacques, the prodigal elder brother who decides to test his own theories of life, and Francois, the younger son who becomes a mis sionary.” The story moves with ease through a series of varied events, and is told with an artistry unusual in Chris tian fiction. Though the author never allows the themes of salvation and Christian living to become secon dary, he refrains from preaching a sermon. Herein are romance, intense spiritual struggle, contrast, sus pense: all that goes to make up a gripping Christian novel of the first class. 264 pages. Moody Press, Chi cago 10, 111. Cloth. Price $2.50. THE WIDENING WEDGE by Mrs. Edwin B. Young. This is the tender and inspiring story of “Mother Helen” and her "Missionary Cottage” at Wayne, Ne braska, related by her with charac teristic humility. Throughou t the book, God is given all the glory for the miracle by which Mrs. Young be came “the Lord’s secretary,” the channel through which thousands of dollars were sent to foreign mission fields and hundreds of young people influenced to surrender their lives for Christian service. The twenty-one chapters of intimate, spiritual expe riences show unmistakably how God can use a fully surrendered life. It should increase the missionary zeal of young and old. 88 pages. Eerd- mans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Board covers. Price $1.00.
YET THERE IS ROOM, by Randall and Dorothy Whetzel.
SWIFT TO ANSWER, Short Stories, by Joye Hoekzema.
A tale of pioneer missionary serv ice in the romantic spice islands, the Netherlands East Indies, includ ing an account of internment by the Japanese. Very interesting and ap pealing. Purchase from the authors at 3424 N. E. Clackamas St., Portland 13, Oregon. Price 50c.
A book of four sentimental tales, into which the love interest and the way of salvation are closely inter woven. 141 pages. Zondervan Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Cloth. $1.50. Page Thirty-five
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