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put some new vitality into the present-day understanding of Old Testament times; ■ 1 No God in the Home “ The story is told of a little Japanese girl who studied at an American college and. spent a Chrismas vacation in the home of one of her classmates. She had Seen much else in America, but the thing she longed most of all to see on the inside was a Christian home, and such a home this one was known to be. She had a delightful time, and as she was about to leave at the end o f the vacation time the mother said: ‘How do you like the wajr we American folks live?’ ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘I love it. Your home is wonderful. But there is one ’ thing I miss,’ said the girl, with a far-away look in her eyes. ‘It is this that makes your home seem queer to me! You know I have been with you to your church, and I have seen you wor ship your God there. But I have missed the God in your home. You know, iu Japan, we have a god-shelf in every home, with the gods right there in the house. Do not Americans worship their God in their homes?’ ” Christianity can never influence our country unless it pervades the home life. “ Some people say the Bible is only a book o f words, but if it comes to com parison with other books, the comparison is gold to stone, if a Christian is the judge.” I -iiigijohn Barkman, N.
in those schools. It is the combinée! teach er’s manual and pupil’s book for the Jun ior course, grades six, seven and eight. It contains an abundance of material and suggestions for teaching the Life of Christ to boÿs and girls,- The lessons are centered around the needs of the child and are worked out in accordance with the truest principles o f pedagogy, and it is refreshing to find a teacher of Miss Carrier’s ability and experience who real izes that the Bible is the greatest source of material which meets the child’s daily needs. The lessons, o f course,, are for children, and sp' the Life of Christ is taken up as suited to them. If rightly used it will lay a strong foundation for the deeper teach ings that will come later. An extremely helpful book, both for material and method. George H. Doran Co. $2.00. —F. M. C. — o — Prophets of the Dawn (Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah) B y . W illiam P. M errill From thé presses o f the Revell Com pany comes this new book of practical ex position of four Old Testament propheti cal books. (Price $1.50.) Dr. Merrill, pastor o f the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, seems to have succeeded in giving us an unusually appealing study o f these books for preacher and layman alike/ He views Amos as the pioiieër çé- ,former, Hosea as the great poet, Isaiah as the seer and statesman and Micah as thè tribune. The application to present-day life is suggestive, and the book should
tance of its inspiration as the only reason able conclusion. Prof. Cole sets forth fully several, inter pretations of the account of the six days’ work recorded in Genesis,, showing how each lines up with the theories of scien tists. A great number of authorities,', both in science and Bible study, are quoted. He makes, ho attempt to adjust Scripture to the speculations o f science, but any reader, after going over the various meth ods o f explanation, cannot but be im pressed that science is coming more and more toward the Biblical statements. He will realize also that science is a shifting, changing mass o f uncrystallized knowl edge, and that much o f the present-day teaching will as surely pass into discard as have theories of the past which were taught with equal confidence. In the first chapters o f the book, 'at tention is called to the severe and unjust attacks upon. the revelation of God, the doctrines of evangelical Christianity and the Gospel of salvation. Following this, the various translations of the Hebrew of Genesis are set forth so far as they per tain to the subject. The evident truth is established that it is preposterous ig norance which would .eliminate Genesis as irreconcilable to any scholarly translation. The Standard Publishing Company put out the book, the price being
— o— The Kingdom of Love B y B lanch « C arrier
Miss Carrier is supervisor o f the very successful system of week-day schools in Dayton, Ohio,:and this book is the tested product o f five years’ teaching and revision-
F r om a f a rm m o t h e r to her son at co l l ege She is a college graduate. Her college teachers and friends wanted her to take up a literary career. She disappointed them by marrying a farmer— also a co l lege graduate. She has never regretted being ‘‘an ob scure farmer’s wife,** in a Christian home with children that are not problem s but a joy. generation. She is writing him letters that are worth reading. They will help to keep any college son or daughter straight,and close to the Lord Jesus Christ. They radiate the warm glow of a mother heart and a Christian home, while they deal in straightforward fashion with the co n crete problem s o f campus, classroom , chapel and dor mitory.
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Now her son is at the college from which his father and mother graduated. She knows what is ahead of him; she has no illusions about the present youngei
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In her first letter this Farm Mother wrote: “Sunday afternoon at college will be so different from the-ones you have always known. Will you save me just a few minutes after the noonday meal when we may be all alone? I shall plan to send you every week a letter that will reach you Saturday; you will read it in that quiet Sunday moment and fancy yourself back in the old Haymow Sunday-school. Just a few thinky moments with the home folks, then back to your magic college world again.”
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