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The Library
f AT OUR PUBLICATION HOUSE.
The home of the Presbyterian Committee
of Publication in Richmond, Va., is a
valuable building near the center of the
city, on Sixth Street, near Broad. It
is not only a handsome building, with
jirobably the most attractive book store
in the South, but it is a hive of InHiiRtrv
*1 ne third and fourth floors are devoted
to the filling orders for booas and the
shipping of our Sunday school literature,
an extensive and growing business. On
Monday, June 14, the quarterly issue
of the periodical literature, by mail and
express, was a great mass of about 900.000
single pieces, going out to all parts
of the South and West, and to mission
lands. Secretary Magill wanted a picture
of the loaded two-horse wagon, with the
committee's chairman on top. But it was
suggested that it would look as if the
chairman was to be shipped as well as
other Earnest Workers and Children's
Friends.
i uc naacuiui) stimuli OI UT. VV. W.
Moore on the Christian Home is now in
press, and will be issued in a few days.
The single copy will be sold at 5 cents.
In quantities it will be sent out at two
and one-half cents a copy.
The addresses of the Calvin Celebration
at our Assembly in Savannah, tuere
are twelve 01 them, will be issued ?n a
neat volume, if a sufficient subscription
is secured. It is probable that this will
soon be accomplished as the subscriptions
are coming in very well. The subscription
or advance price is $1.25 postpa'd.
Later the book will sell for $1.50.
Our latest venture in periodical literature,
to meet the needs of the young
people or our Church is Onward. Its
circulation is steadily increasing. It is
hoped that before long we will be able
to make Onward our own paper, with
our own editor, and issued from our own
publishing house.
The publishing house of our Church
ij doing a great work in the churches,
and in the Home Mission fields. It is
eminently worthy of your cordial and
zealous support.
"Christ's Way of Winning Souls," is
from the pen of John Calhoun Sligh. mem
ber of the Northwest Texas Conference.
It is issued from Nashville, Tenn., and Dallas,
Texas, by the Publishing House of
the M. E. Church, South, 1909. This little
book is on thnt great theme, personol
work. In twelve brief chapters the author,
a most earnest and consecrated
worker, gives us a thoughtful study oi
the principles, which governed Christ's
personal dealing with the unsaved. The
author's nnrnnso liannilv npniMnnllchuil
is to lay proper stress upon the spirit in
which, following the Master, the work
should be done. He emphasizes the fact
'hat Christ's method was what might
be called "conversational evangelism."
The incident of the Samaritan woman at
Jacob's well, forms the basis of the first
nine chapters; other conversations of
Christ, as with Zacchacus, the rich young
ruler, and others, giving the illustrations
in the later chapters. The author's trend
of thought may be seen from the titles
of the chapters, as Christ as a Personal
'HE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOI
Worker, Manifestations of a Friendly
Spirit, A Happy Way of Introducing the
Subject. Probing the Conscience, A Liberal
But Uncompromising Spirit, The
Grind Objective Point, The Motive
Power. Results of Soul Winning, Message
to the Man of Culture, Appeal to
the Business Man, Appeal to the Aristo
crai, s ne Christ Presence.
A Short Grammar of .the Greek New
Testament is by A. T. Robertson, A. M.,
D. D., professor of New Testament Interpretation.
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Ky. It is from
the press of A. C. Armstrong, of Southern
New York. For twenty years, Dr.
Robertson has been a student and a
teacher of Greek. He is the author of
several helpful books for the student.
"Student's Chronological New Testament,"
"Syllabus for New Testament
Study," etc. The present work is not
so much a grammar of New Testament
Greek, as it is a grammar of the Greek
New Testament. The language is regarded
not a dialect of the people of a country
or section, and not as a sacred lan
guage unlike anything else. It is the
vernacular language of the first century,
A. D., written by men of varied culture,
but all touched by the Spirit of Christ
and familiar with the LXX Greek, and
to some extent the Aramaic of the time.
An analysis of this valuable and scholarly
book, it is" impossible for us to give.
There is an index to New Testament
Passages, and an index to Important
Words.
"The Princeton Seminary Bulletin," of
May. 1909, is full of interesting notes
concerning men and things, doings and
doers, at Princeton. A copy of it should
be In the hands of every loyal son of
that institution.
"Christian Science in the Light of Holy
Scripture." by I. M. Haldeman, author of
"How to Study the ?lble," New York,
Chicago, Toronto, and London; Fleming
H. Revell Company, 1909. The only fault
V> c naw IU I1I1U Willi l?ll? DOOK IS that
by its elaborateness and volume It lends
too much dignity to the culture which it
studies. Eddyism is hardly; worth so
much and so serious attention. The author's
object is "to show that Christian
Science is wholly outside the Bible, and
has no right to the name 'Christian.'"
He asserts that in its claiming even the
shadow of support from the Bible it displays
audacity, not to say wickedness.
He says that he has not collated and
freely commented on some of the sayings
of "Christian Science and Health,
of which it would have been quite easy
to have made a chapter altogether picturesque,"
because under the cap and bells,
which sometimes show themselves in its
pages, mere lurKs always the face of
that Evil One who can hiss through .1
serpent, sin through a woman, shine In an
angel, be a harlequin in logic, and a devil
behind it all." Notwithstanding these
and similar vigorous words in the preface,
Dr. Haldeman makes a most fair and
careful analysis of the fundamental propo
sltions of Christian Science and placed
over against them the testimony of th-?
Bible. The whole is a study of the claim.*
of the new faith exclusively from the
Bible point of view. Some of the chap
JTH. " June 30, .1909.
tens may be indicated, and the author's
thought followed, from the following contrasted
statement, the first in each con
pie from Christian Science, and the second
from the Scriptures: "There is no
matter"; "In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth." "Man is incanahlo
of oin " ??aii i-~? -?
. ?.... ^iii iiaie sinned and
come short of the glory of God." "Man
Is never sick"; "They brought lilm all
sick people." "There is no death"; "It
is appointed unto men once to die." "Man
is co-existent with Gcd"; "As for man.
his days are as grass, as the flowers of
the field so he flourisheth." "Another
illusive personification, named Satan";
"Satan himself." "Christ was iucorpo
real": "Every spirit that confesseih not
that Jesus Christ is come in the llesh *
* is that spirit of anti-Christ." The
contrast is so great that the whole problem
resolves itself into the simple question,
"Which will you believe?"
The Missionary for June.?Our admirable
monthly from our .foreign mission
ofttcc in Nashville, is always full of informing
and interesting matter. The
editor, Rev. H. F. Williams, now on a
tour in the East, writes on the work at
Chunju, Korea. The case of Dr. Morrison
and Dr. Sheppard, now on trial at
I^eopoidville on the Kongo, is fully nre
Rented in a letter from Africa. Other
letters are from Africa. Brazil, China
and Cuba. There are timely editorials
on Special Objects. The Missionary Con.
mittee in each Church, The Laymen's Missionary
Movement, and lists of New
Books, and Missionary Contributions, etc.,
75 cents a year. Presbyterian Committee
of Foreign Missions, Nashville, Tenn.
"The Minister's Inner Life/' by H. A.
Bridgman, D. D., is an article of unusual
literary merit and spiritual force, in The
Homiletic Review for June. Dr. Bridgman
points out the distracting forces
and temptations that make it difficult for
ministers to live a spiritual life, and
some of the means for overcoming them
and r>lllt i vntinc on Innni. MP*,
? m.? iMuvi uic ui turn*
munioii and power. The number contains
also an archaeological article by
Prof. Eduard Konlg on "Babylonian and
Old Testament Culture." Dr. H. Sloatie
Coffin's fifth article on "Children and
the Church Service," and Dr. G. Campbell
Morgan's sermon. "Children and the
Kingdom," make excellent and timely
reading for Children's Sunday. Punk and
Wagnalls Company, 44-60 East 23d Street,
New York. $3.00 a year.
Gospel Team: Some eighteen or twenty
young men from the Boston University
of Theology are forming into a gospel
team, traveling about Boston and the
surruuuuing towns, nouting evangelistic
services. Their campaign this year ha3
een fraught with much success. Under
the leadership of Mr. Thomas W. Owens,
a former Mount Hermon student, the
young men have gone from place to place
with prayerful consecration,% and earnest
enthusiasm carrying the simple gospel
message with testimony and song.?
rveuuru ui ^.nrisuan WOrK.
Never esteem anything as of advantage
tx> thee that shall make thee break thy
word or lose thy self-respect.?Marcus
Aurellus. ,
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