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missionary has afforded him contacts such as perhaps no one else o f his generation has been accorded. The book that has re sulted from his first-hand study o f the subject and from his comparison o f scores o f authors will be regarded as a permanent contribution to the literature bearing on Asiatic faiths. 295 pages. Revell Co. Cloth. Price $2.50. Under the Olive Trees • B y T homas M itchell C halmers The author is director o f the New York Jewish Mission. This is a gracefully writ ten account o f a trip to Italy, Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, made, by one who is equipped by long study and by na tive abilities to observe closely and to un derstand the deeper significances o f what he sees. The matter does not make claim to exhause the themes and objects dis cussed, for the visit to each place was brief. The very brevity o f the sketches makes possible the touching o f those out standing things about a people or a place that a reader wishes to know. 224 pages! Author, 2654 Marion Ave., New York. Cloth. Price $1.25. The Seven Words from the Cross By F rederick D. N iedermeyer The book is an outstanding' appreciation o f the words of the Saviour upon the cross. There is rare understanding o f the being o f the Son o f God, that essential nature that made possible the Godlike ut terances that came from His lips while the pains o f death racked His body. Many have written upon the great words from the cross— few more fittingly than Dr. Niedermeyer. I ll pages. Revell Co. Cloth. Price $1.00. The New Man, or Talks to Christian Young Men B y R eginald W allis The chapter headings will suggest the contents of the book : What Happened When You Came to Christ? Growing in Grace, True Manhood, Christian Chivalry Toward the Opposite Sex, Amusements, and A Few More Important Matters, Com ing from the pen o f a Bible teacher who has had the joy o f winning hundreds of young men to Jesus Christ, one cannot com mend it too highly. Pastors, evangelists, teachers, and soul-winners will find it a most suitable book to place in the hands o f new converts to give them a clear un derstanding o f the Christian life and to help them in their temptations and prob lems. 93 pages. Loizeaux Bros., New York. Paper. Price 40 cents. Chinatown Quest B y C arol G reen W ilson This volume, with its interesting sub title: “The Life-Adventures o f Donaldina Cameron,” presents the thrilling history of a rescue home for Chinese girls in San Francisco. The home had as its first su perintendent Miss Culbertson, o f blessed memory, and it came to its widest effi ciency under Miss Cameron, who has given a reasonably long life to this monumental work. She has led countless raids on the vice-centers_ o f Chinatown and has rescued from the vilest slavery hundreds o f girls who continue to laud her marvelous tri umphs in their behalf. The book is more full of high adventure than a novel, and yet it presents only a part o f the wonder ful story. 263 pages. Stanford University. Press. Cloth. Price $2.00.
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The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible B y W illiam F oxwell A lbright The author is Professor o f Semitic Lan guages at Johns Hopkins University, and Director of American School o f Oriental Research in Jerusalem 1920-29. He is not definitely committed to either conservative or modernistic views. However, he .ac cepts the main outlines o f the documentary hypothesis, while definitely discrediting Wellhausen and Kuenen as to many mat ters o f fact. He does not accept verbal in spiration. His independence, no doubt, en hances the value o f his testimony. He says, “The uniqueness o f the Bible, both as a masterpiece,of literature and as a religious document, has not been lessened, and noth ing tending to disturb the religious faith o f Jew or Christian has been discovered” (p. 127). “ On the one hand, the excessive skepticism shown toward the Bible by im portant historical schools of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, certain phases o f which still appear periodically, has been progressively discredited. Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy o f innumerable details, and has brought in creased recognition o f the value of the Bible as a source o f history” (pp. 127, 128) . The volume is o f primary interest to specialists in archaeology and advanced Biblical criticism. While not free from mixture as to point o f view, the weight of the testimony is heavily on the side of cor- robation of the Scripture text. 233 pages. Revell Co. Cloth. Price $2.00. The entire problem o f the attitude o f youth toward sacred things, the means to be used to properly present Christ to the young men and maidens o f today, is the subject o f this book. The author does not advocate the crowding o f the boy or girl into church relationships, but he insists upon the necessity o f the new birth and is confident that confession o f Christ and joining o f the church will naturally fol low. The subject is carefully considered and well wrought out. 123 pages. Judson Press. Cloth. Price $1.25. The Fact of a Future Life B y C ortland M yers Dr. Myers quotes from authors o f all ages concerning the hope o f a future life, u that life is fully revealed. The three chapters of the book are entitled: The Fact o f Man, The Fact o f God, and The Fact o f Christ. Our faith is based up on fact, not upon reasoning or inference. I he future life is not merely a cherished hope. It is a reality that will be expe rienced. 95 pages. Ray Long and Richard R. Smith. Cloth. Price $1.00. Children’s Worship Story-Sermons B y H ugh T . K err •" i? fJK"two Suggestive and Usable Sto ries. These brief tales are such as could be used at the church service for the children s moments.” Each contains an Winning Youth for Christ By P aul J udson M orris
illustration or fact upon which a moral or spiritual inference is based. Dr. Kerr has been engaged for twenty years in prepar ing this series of stories for children. 190 pages. Revell Co. Cloth. Price $1.50.
The Missionary Inspirative E dited by E lmer T. C lark
The book is a compilation o f the ad dresses delivered at the International Mis sionary Conference held at Memphis, Tenn., in 1929, under the direction o f the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Some of these addresses are marked by a vitality and gripping power that is most phe nomenal. They give in their entirety a most valuable view o f the task before the Christian church. 256 pages. Cokesbury Press. Cloth. Price $2.00. New Songs and Choruses C ompiled by E lden R. F arrar This is a helpful booklet of thirty-two new songs and choruses—twenty-two of which are choruses. Among them is Mr. Farrar’s popular composition, “What the World Needs Is Jesus.” The booklet will be found especially useful in evangelistic services, young people’s meetings, and Daily Vacation Bible School sessions. Elden R. Farrar, 912 W . 5th St., Santa Ana, Calif. Paper. Price 20 cents. Beyond Gates of Gold B y S olomon S. H ilscher The theme o f this truly remarkable book is the reality and the glory of the heaven ly world. Glimpses o f the glory have been given to men even in this life. Isaiah, Paul, John, and Stephen have seen heaven opened. Authentic instances o f most un usual unveilings o f the heavenly world have been given even to modern men. Whole chapters are given to such themes as : The Powers o f the Redeemed, The A c tivities, The Language o f the Glorified. Foregleams o f the glory have often irradi ated the lives o f believers and have trans figured them. The book treats scripturally o f the way that leads to the gates. Dr. Hilscher knows how to quote with dis crimination from a very wide range of authors, and, even when he treats of fa miliar truths, his treatment is most spark ling and arresting. 192 pages. Revell Co. Cloth. Price $1.50. A Layman’s Appeal for Missions B y G lenn G. W alker The book brings in review the financial dearth as experienced on the mission fields. It ^rebukes the extravagance practiced by many Christians and churches in the homeland, and it urges them to systematic and adequate appropriation o f money for the speedy evangelization o f the world. 110 pages. Author, care o f God’s Bible School and Revivalist, Cincinnati, Ohio. Paper. Price 25 cents.
Religions of Old Korea B y C harles A llen C lark
Dr. Clark has been for thirty years a most diligent and enthusiastic student o f the religions o f Korea. His work as a
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