Christian’s devotional library. 270 pages; boards; Sword of the Lord Publishers, Wheaton, 111.; $2.50. Book Brevities THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST by Howard A . Hanke. 54 pages; paper; Wm . B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, M ich.; 60c. A good introduction to the Bible doctrine of the virgin birth, "th e keystone of Christian doc trin e ." THE HAND OF GOD AND SUSIE by J. C. Brum field. 104 pages; boards; Van Kämpen Press, W heaton, III.; $1.00. Children's story, heard on radio Bible programs. Some par ents will object to the poor English and slang! BLUE COW AT SUGAR CREEK by Paul Hutch ens. 90 pages; boards; Van Kämpen Press, W heaton, III.; $1.00. Another of the author's Sugar Creek stories— laid this tim e in a farm setting. Sugar Creek fans w ill be eager to read the book.
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hooking Up I f you spend much time on the desert you soon become aware of a vast amount of beauty you ’ll never see any place else. The scattered flowers and shrubs have a delicate hue all of their own. The shifting sand dunes and rocky upthrusts have ■ as many colors as there are hours in the day. And at night the stars seem to be huge, rough nuggets of gold hanging just out ’V of reach. For sheer, unspoiled beauty the desert is hard to beat. I’m writing this column on the desert. W e ’re on a camp ing trip in Death Valley, Calif. W e ’ve had rain and wind and sun. And it’s all been a thing of beauty. Since Death Valley is the lowest spot in the Western Hemisphere (280 feet below sea level), you find yourself looking up a great deal of the time. On the east the black-topped Funeral Mountains with bases of yellow and red and green tower a mile high. On the west the Panamints jut abruptly to 11,000 feet above the floor of the valley. Th ey ’re covered with snow now. Last night when I was stretched out in m y sleeping bag be fore the dying embers of our camp fire and with the lonesome yap yap of a coyote drifting across the valley, I got to thinking about looking up. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to look up. Haven’t you ever caught yourself seemingly trapped in the little daily details of living? All of us have. W e suddenly realize all of our hopes and ambitions and plans are being smothered by little things. W e have the eyes of our soul cast downward. And when the soul is earth-bound, life loses the full-orbed abundance that God means it to have. Now the fact that we find ourselves in this condition of the downcast soul is nothing out of the ordinary. A ll of us come to this realization sooner or later. W e have but to be completely honest with our own heart to know that when we are not right with God then life has no real meaning. How to be right with God is a basic question that every person has to answer. Our best philosophers have spent the greater part of their lives discussing the question. Millions have decided that '75 Jesus Christ is the answer. If you ’ve tried your own way— however good it is— and still don’t have complete inner peace and the absolute assur ance of being right with God, then why not make the experi ment of trying Jesus Christ? It w on ’t cost you a cent. Just try Him. Look away from yourself— that inner self that is tied down with the small details of everyday living. Look out and up to Him who is the way, the truth, the life and apart from whom can be no salvation for your seeking soul. Christ is the answer. He is the answer for your need, for the need of your heart today. __ L H If you have found in this short article a way of life that you would like, we urg6 you now— this very moment— to yield your will to His will and in doing so find that in Christ is Life. If you have a question, or if we can be of help in any way, please write us. We shall be happy to if send you a copy of the Gospel of John. It is yours free for the asking. Address: The Editors, King's Business, 558 S. Hope, Los Angeles 17, Calif.
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GOD OF ALL COMFORT, Anonymous. 23 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago, III.; 5c. Booklet of poems of strength and comfort. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS IN HAPPINESS VALLEY by Ken Anderson. 57 pages; boards; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, M ich.; $1.00. Prim ary age story of long ago— some Christian color. GOLDEN-CAKE-BY-THE-FIRE by Craig Massey. 24 pages; paper; Zorvdervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, M ich.; 25c. One of "K id s Ad venture" series— Indian story for children with Christian background. OL' SWAYBACK by Craig M assey. 25 pages; paper; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rap ids. M ich.; 25c. W estern adventure story in "K ids Adventure" series, with Christian' back ground. RUFF OF THUNDER FALLS by Craig Massey. 2 5 . pages; paper; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, M ich.; 25c. Christian story in "K id s Adventure" series featuring R u ff, a husky Eskimo dog. MYSTERY AT TREMBLING-T by Craig Massey. 26 pages; paper; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, M ich.; 25c. Another "K id s Ad venture" story of. Christian» testimony in the southwestern ranch country. FOREST FOLK AT WORK by M arian School- land. 88 pages; boards; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, M ich.; $1.00. Fables and parables from the world of nature, with spiritual and moral values. UNCLE JIM'S STORIES FROM NATURE'S WONDERLAND by Jam es H. Hunter. 71 pages; boards; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, M ich.; $1.00. N ature stories for ages 5 to 10 with spiritual side-lights. CAPTAIN DALEY'S CREW IN DANGER by Craig M assey. 86 pages; boards; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, M ich.; $1.00. Another Captain Daley story about his Sunday School class's adventures. CHRISTMAS POEMS by M artha Snell Nichol son. 16 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago, III.; 5c., Christm as poems and a b rief medita tion— excellent for Christm as programs. LET'S MEMORIZE by Faris D. W hitesell and Ruth H. LeFever. 64 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago, III.; 15c. 50 questions with answers given in Scripture quotations. SWORD REVIVAL SONGS. 177 pages; paper; Sword of the Lord Publishers, W heaton, III.; 60c. Good collection of evangelistic songs, both old and new. MALCOLM AND MARIE by Oswald J . Smith. 64 pages; paper; The Peoples Press, Toronto. A romance o f the Russian Revolution- in blank verse w ith a Christian plot. BEYOND CIVILIZATION by S. M uller. 62 pages; plastic binding; Brown Gold Publications, Chico, C a lif.; $1.25. " A collection of letters to describe jungle journeys while pioneering among a hitherto unreached Indian tribe ir? . . . South Am erica." Illustrated. SEVEN SIMPLE SERMONS ON THE SAVIOUR'S LAST WORDS by W . Herschel Ford. 89 pages; cloth; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rap ids, M ich.; $1.50. Evangelical messages on the last words of Christ— useful for Passion W eek.
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