ing of Calvin’s works. As would be ex pected, the sermons contain solid matter and the appetite is whetted for the re maining 139. 300 pages. Cloth. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. $4.50. THE TREASURY OF ANDREW MURRAY Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was born of Scottish parents in South Africa, edu cated in Presbyterian Scotland, and spent his long life in the ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church in his native land. More than 250 deeply devotional works have come from his pen to bless several generations. The publishers have gathered 32 extended sections from 16 of his best works in this anthology. One need not agree with every position of the author to find great gain in these pages. 255 pages. Cloth. Fleming H. Revell Company, Westwood, N. J. $2.50. COMFORT FOR CHRISTIANS By Arthur W. Pink This author has been read profitably by thousands for a good many years; of late he has taken the amillennial posi tion. This collection of articles from his magazine, Studies in the Scriptures, con sider the spiritual problems of the child of God, such as Divine Chastisement, Sufferings Compensated, Contentment, and Heart Purity. This volume is noted as the first of others to follow. 121 pages. Cloth. Bible Truth Depot, Swengel, Pa. $1.75. A specialist in the period of the Wes leyan Revival of the eighteenth century sets forth the background and develop ment of that great and unique move ment, together with its fruits in social reforms in a popular style. The author might have given greater place to the powerful influence of the Calvinistic re vival within the Church of England it self paralleling the Methodist movement. 151 pages. Cloth. Light and Life Press, Winona Lake, Ind. UNSHACKLED: STORIES FROM PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION Faith Coxe Bailey has revised Eu genia Price’s radio transcripts of a series of true stories of Pacific Garden Mis sion converts used over Radio Station WGN in Chicago. These twenty stories are very readable, consisting largely of dialog, and they reveal the power of Christ to lift up the fallen. The book will be a powerful testimony to many. 160 pages. Cloth. Moody Press, Chicago, 111 . $ 2 . 00 . 77 PARABLE TALKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS By John Henry Sargent These brief messages based upon com mon objects such as homogenized milk, tree rings, and wishbones each carry a spiritual message. Sunday school work ers and others will find them full of suggestions for their own use. 164 pages. Cloth. W. A. Wilde Co., Boston, Mass. $ 2 . 00 . FAITH AND FREEDOM By J. Wesley Bready
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the blue distance. At last a distant speck resolves itself into a group of horsemen and a chariot. Both women have the same thought in mind: Is he cured? Nearer and nearer they come and are lost to sight as they enter the city below. After an age of waiting, it seems, there is a quick step on the stair, Naaman rushes into the room and clasps his wife to his heart: “ I am cleansed!” he shouts, “ from henceforth I worship only the Lord God of Israel.” There is no doubt about his change of heart. And what of the little maid? She would have withdrawn discreetly to her own place, her heart full of joy for her mistress, of thankfulness to the God of Israel and of hope for her eventual restoration to home and loved ones. What do you feel about it? God was ready and able to heal Naaman both physically and spiritually through the faithfulness of the little maid. Whom is God touching and healing through your faithfulness? The Puritanism of the Geneva Bible did not please the Bishops so they or ganized a revision committee of nine bishops to produce a new Bible. This version, known as the Bishops’ Bible, appeared in 1568. It was a poor piece of work and never became popular. The fin^l chapter in the fight for the English Bible was written when the King James Version was prepared and issued in 1611. It was the work of eighty revis ers working in three companies at West minster, Oxford and Cambridge, and reviewing each other’s work. It was slow in winning popularity, but after fifty years replaced the Geneva Bible. It still continues to be the world’s best-selling book, although many other translations have been made since then. That is the story of the “ Fight for the English Bible.” It was a fight in which many brave men risked their lives and some even gave up theirs, so that we might read the Word of God in our own language. Are we thankful for that precious heritage? Do we treasure it above other books? Have we found, with Dr. John S. Bonnell, that “It responds to expectant faith. It ministers courage to the discouraged, hope to the despair ing, guidance to the bewildered, forgive ness to the penitent, consolation to the sorrowing, rest to the weary and peace to the inwardly distraught. It has a remedy for every moral and spiritual ill of mankind . . . To it mankind must return if we are to heal the distemper o f our lives and to resolve the disorder o f the world. It is ‘The Book to Live By,’ for the source of its light is He who came that we ‘might have life and have it more abundantly.’ ” Page Twenty-seven The Fight For The English Bible (Continued from Page 18)
By Donald G. Davis, Ph.D.
PELOUBET’S SELECT NOTES FOR 1953 By Wilbur M. Smith The turn of the year brings us an other volume in this series of superb commentaries on the International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching, the new title for the International Sunday School Lessons. Added this year to the biblio graphical notes, comments, and quota tions from pertinent literature is a sec tion on visual aids with individual recommendations for each lesson. 409 pages. Cloth. W. A. Wilde Company, Boston, Mass. $2.75. ARNOLD’S PRACTICAL COMMENTARY FOR 1953 This, like the last book, is a commen tary on the International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching. One of the out standing helps on this series written from the Arminian approach, it contains departmental helps with illustrations and sidelights for the teacher’s use. 284 pages. Cloth. Light and Life Press, Winona Lake, Ind. $2.00 THE TYPOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE By Patrick Fairbairn The republishing of this work, one of the greatest on its subject, is most welcome. Originally published in 1847 and revised in 1900 in two volumes, it is the work of one of the great old theo logians of the Free Church of Scotland. No serious Bible student will want to be without this important book, which in cludes both volumes of the revised edi tion. 420-484 pages. Cloth. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. $6.95. SERMONS FROM JOB By John Calvin Twenty sermons are here selected and translated into English from John Cal vin’s 159 sermons on the Book of Job. Both binding and dust wrapper are uni form with the publisher’s recent reprint- J A N U A R Y , 1 9 5 3
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