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24 1 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. , ''