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THE HEATHEN LOST WITHOUT
THE GOSPEL
BY T. J. BECK, D.D.
Mnrk 16:15: “Go ye into ail the
earth and preach the Gospel to every
creature."
We are here commanded to carry
the Gospel to all the nations of earth,
to every creature. Now, we wish to
urge this great commission by the sin
gle consideration that without the
Gospel the heathen are lost. This is
not generally believed by the members
of our churches, but It is nevertheless
true.
The Bible so teaches. The Scrip
tures declare that "there is but one
God arm one Mediator between God
and man, the matt Christ Jesus.
Christ says: "I am the way, the truth
and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father but by me." Peter testifies:
"Neither is there salvation in any
other; for there is none other name
under heaven given among men
whereby we must be saved." In other
places we are told: "lie that believ
eth on the Son hath everlasting life,
and he that believeth not on the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of
God abideth on him.” "For other
foundation can no man lay than that
is laid, which is Jesus Christ." "And
this is the record that God hath given
to us eternal life and this life is in
his Son.” "He that hath the Son
hath life, and toe that hath not the
Son of God hath not life." In the
glorious vision of John on tile Isle of
Patmos he beheld the number of
those who were sealed; first those of
the tribe of Israel end then "a great
multitude which no man could num
ber of all nations and kindred and
people and tongues.” "These,” he
was told, "an- they which have wash
ed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb. ’ ’i hose and
other passages of the same tenor leave
not the shadow of doubt that there can
be no salvation for the heathen apart,
from Christ- that is. but one way in
which men can be saved. It they are
saved, it must be through the blood of
the Son of God.
But it may be objected that the ef
ficacy of Christ's atonement may be
applied to the heathen in away of
which we are not informed. This sup
position, however, is against tile Scrip
tures, which declare salvation impos
sible without faith in Christ, anil in
order to this he must be known. It is
impossible for men to believe on the
Son, or to turn truly to him as their
hope, without first having had him
preached unto them. "Whosoever
shall call on the name of the Ix>rd
shall be saved. How, then, shall they
call on him in whom they have not
believed? And how shall they believe
in him of whom they have not hoard?
And how shall they hear without a
preacher? And how shall they preach
except they be sent?” We are taught
also that "faith eometh by hearing
and hearing by the word of God." Is
not salvation plainly declared to be by
faith in the truth revealed from heaven
and made known by God's ministers?
Seeing the world by wisdom knew not
God, says Paul; seeing that men. when
left to themselves, inevitably die in
their sins, it "pleased God by the fool
ishness of preaching to save them
that believe.” God has sent his Son
into the world to save sinners, and
the heathen who are "without Christ,"
‘•'have no hope and are without God.”
It is further objected that the heath
en have only the light of nature to
guide them, being destitute of a reve
lation. Therefore they are excusable.
Paul, however, tells us that they are
not. He dec-lares that they are with
out excuse. They have no pretext
for their idolatrous practices and
vicious lives, nor will they have any
thing to object to God's righteous
judgment, why they should not be con
demned, "Because when they knew
God they glorified him not as God;
neither were thankful; but became
vain in their imaginations and
their foolish hearts were darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools and Changed the glory
of the uncorruptible God into an im
age made like unto corruptible man
and to birds and to four-footed beasts
and creeping things. Wherefore God
also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonor their own bodies between
themselves, who changed the truth of
God into a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the
Creator who is blessed forever.” Thus
we see how they are inexcusable, be
cause their natural corruption is in
this way discovered. They are con
victed of being sinners and conse
quently alienated from communion
■with God and subjected to condemna
tion, which is clearly just. The apostle
further tells us that these heathen
“walk in the vanity of their minds,
having their understanding darkened,
-being alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them
because of the blindness of their
heart; who being past feeling, have
given themselves over unto lascivious
ness to work all uncleanness with
greediness.” All men then being sin
ners, justly chargeable with inexcusa
ble impiety and immorality, cannot be
saved by any recourse of their own.
“For if there toad been a law given
■which could have given life, verily
righteousness would have been by the
law ano Christ is dead in vain.” But
no such law was given and no such
righteousness possible. All alike are
absolutely dependent upon the sacri
ficial offering of Christ for salvation.
Holy Writ assures us that “the un
righteous shall not inherit the kingdom
oi God." "Be not deceived; neither
fornicators, por idolaters, nor adulter
ers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind, nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor re
vilers.nor extortioners shall inherit the
kingdom of God,” and all these things
the heathen are guilty of, notwith
standing "that which may be known
of (rod" was "manifest to them." for
God "shewed it unto them.” Where
fore as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge, God gave
i..cm over to a reprobate mind to do
those things which are not convenient,
being filled with all unrighteousness,
wickedness, maliciousness, full of en
vy, murder, deceit, malignity, haters
of God, proud, inventors of evil, with
out understanding, covenant breakers,
implacable, unmerciful, who, knowing
the judgment of God that they that
commit such tilings are worthy of
i.eath, not only do the same but have
pleasure In them that do them." Tru
ly, "the carnal mind is enmity against
God.” Hence, "except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God.” If the Bible excludes from the
kingdom of heaven all the immoral;
all whose he.wts are corrupt©, by
pride, envy, malice or covetousness; all
in whom the love of God is not the
supreme and all-controlling principle
of action, it is evident, so far as adults
are concerned, the heathen are lost
salvation can never go beyond the
warrant of God's word. Pagan relig
ion is as unfit to prepare men for the
presence of God as the waters of Sy
ria to heal the leprosy. Nothing but
the ingrafted Word, received with
meekness, can make men wise unto
salvation. Really there is not the
slightest foundation for the notion that,
the heathen are saved. God in his
Word assures ns that they are without
excuse; that, the knowledge of God
is manifest to them, even his eternal
power and Godhead, but when they
krn-w him they glorified him not, but
became vain in their imagination and
gave themselves up to the most Shame
ful idolatry and the most abandoned
wickedness. Hence there is no ground
whatever for “that mawkish senti
mentalism which would remove them
from the ranks of accountable beings.”
Many do not perceive that heathenism
is a crime and not a mere misfortune.
Dr. Thornwell on this point is very
clear and conclusive. “Looked at in
its true light." he says, "heathenism is
a crime, or rather a combination of
crimes, so enormous and aggravated
that the marvel is how -a God of in
finite justice and purity could endure it
for a single day. Its mother is sin
and its daughter is death. In judging
of it men imperceptibly lose sight of
the fact. that, the heathen are men like
themselves, rational, moral, religipus;
they have a nature in all respects like
ours the same primitive cognition,
the same laws of belief, the same con
science in its fundamental demands,
and the same instincts for personal
communion and worship. Their con
stitution, as spiritual, responsible be
ings, in no respect differs from our
own. Taking this thought along with
us. we must of course judge of their
principles, their character and con
duct. as 'the principles, character and
conduct of rational beings. To the bar
of reason they are certainly responsi
ble.
"Now. our whole argument has shown
that these reasonable beings, in close
conspiracy with the devil, have sys
tematically corrupted and perverted
their reason. They have suppressed
its utterances when it speaks to them
o. God. They have listened to it when
it speaks to them in the affairs of life,
but when it points to the invisible and
supreme they have boldly said to it
that it lied and that they would follow
another light. Is there nothing mon
strous in this? Heathenism is really
an attempt to put out the eyes of the
soul nay more, to extinguish the very
being of the soul; for its essence is
intelligence, and intelligence is sup
pressed in these very contradictions to
first truths implied in heathenism.
Then again rational beings are bound
to regulate their faith by the laws of
evidence. They are not to believe
without just proof. They must give a
reason for the faith that is in them.
Bring heathenism to this test and what
are its proofs of its countless rabble
of gods. What evidence can it produce
for the divine appointment of its mon
strous systems of worship? If the
question was asked. Who hath required
this at your hands? what rational
answer could these reasonable beings
give? These systems are so manifest
ly the produets of their imagination,
the spawn of a whorish fancy by a cor
rupt heart, that -they perhaps would be
amazed that any evidence were re
quired. Then what Shall we say to the
crimes which their religion has sancti
fied? Those brutal lusts, those bac
chanalian revels; the open contempt
of all the ties which bind man to his
fellows? Homicide, fratricide, parri
cide, infanticide? What shall we say
of these and the men that have made
it a merit, an act of devotion to God,
to be stained with these enormities?
Add to this in the matter of worship
they offer flattery for praise, bribery
for penitence, and wages for sin. They
have no love for God, no spiritual com
munion with their Maker, though their
nature tells them .this is the very life
and soul of worship. Instead of this
holy and spiritual exercise, they sub
stitute the presence of stocks and
stones, of birds and four-footed beasts,
and creeping things, and would palm
off this mummery to an image, as an
adequate compensation for the absence
of holy love. If anything can be said
with truth, it is that heathenism is
unnatural and monstrous. And how
can it be maintained that a man is in
nocent when he has done violence to
all that is great and noble about him?
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. JANUARY 14. 1897.
What is heathenism in its last anal"-
sls but a determined effort in the alli
ance and Interest of hell to extinguish
reason rather than admit the true God? >
As to the notion that idolaters are sin
cere in their worship, if it means that
they believe their lies, then that is
the very core of the charge against
them. How can they, as reasonable
beings, believe without guilt a mass of
stupendous falsehood which outrages
common sense? Their reason never
brought them to this pass—it ’was
something which silenced reason. If
by sincerity is meant that they design
the honor of God, then the core of
■their guilt again is, that they have
such thoughts of God as to suppose
that he can lie pleased with what
would degrade a man. He who thinks
to honor me by slander and insult, by
making me approve and reward the
most abominable crimes, has certainly
strange notions of honor, and the
more sincerely they honor God after
this fashion the more they deserve to
lie damned for hushing that inward
monitor of God which speaks sponta
neously in the conscience. It is a
Shame to apologize for idolaters. We
may pity them, but we must condemn
them. They are without excuse. Their
ignorance is wilful and obstinate. The
true view of -heathenism is, that it is
the consummation of human depravity,
it is the. full development of the prin
ciple of sin in its workings upon the
intellectual, the moral and the relig
ious nature of man. It is a develop
ment directly counter to that which is
normal and right. It is the last stage
which the mind reaches in its retro
grade movement. It is as complete an
unmaking of the work of God in man
as it is possible to conceive. It extin
guishes the life of intelligence, the life
of conscience, and the life of religion.
It turns man into a monster, clothes
his Maker in garments of shame, and
when it has done its work of death it
complacently wipes its mouth and
says: ‘I have done no evil.’ Surely
the wicked shall be turned into hell
together with all the nations that for
get God.” So wo see that reason fully
concurs with the teachings of Scrip
ture on this subject. Nowhere can we
find a more shocking exhibition of the
depravity of the human heart than in
the religious rites of heathen. Noth
ing can be more astonishing, “more
humiliating, -more debasing to an intel
ligent nature than that, of rational and
immortal beings, destined to endless
life, formed for noble and sublime
purposes, prostrating themselves not
only before the sun and moon, and the
host of 'heaven, but before men and
evil spirits, animals, vegetables, blocks
of wood and figures of stone.” God
says, “Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools.” How apt
this language! Would anybody but a
fool worship such objects? Is not a
man a fool who would worship an
onion, a fly, pi frofe, an ox.
d piece of wood or marble?
Could a human being in any
other way show such a depth of
stolidity? Think of a man going into
the forest, cutting down a tree, and
bringing it home on his wagon. With
a part he warms himself, with another
he cooks his food, and with “the resi
due thereof he maketto a god; he fall
eth down unto it and worshipetto it and
prayet-h unto it, and saith, Deliver me;
for thou art my god.” Are not such
acts the consummation of depravity?
Could an immortal being offer a gross
er insult to its Maker than this? Can
we conceive of -a more complete per
version of the end of a man’s being
than is 'herein exhibited? Think of
rational beings, made in the image and
after 'the likeness of God, bowing
down to images of wood, or stone, or
metal, fashioned by their own hands,
and confessing their dependence upon
them for life with all its hopes and
its blessings, placing all their trust in
them; “building temples to them;
erecting altars and offering up prayers
and praises to them!” Think of of
fering to these same images “living
victims —yea rational victims —nay
more, youths of the noblest families,
the brightest talents and the fairest
-hopes; nay more still,” their “own be
loved offspring—the children of” their
“own -bow-els.” “This infatuated wor
ship, though so hideous in every feat
ure, rapidly spreads over the w-hole
earth,” notwithstanding the hourly
demonstration of God’s perfections and
agency in the visible universe. Piety
has properly been declared to be the
foundation of all other virtue, “with
out which the virtue exercised toward
our fellow creature and toward our
selves could not exist.” But piety is
impossible in the system of heathen
ism. Its elements of "love, reverence
and resignation” could find no place
in a service rendered to an ox, a cat, a
frog, a fly, an onion, a stick of wood or
block of marble. In all this the heath
en heart shows its appalling enmity
to the true and living God.
But it is asserted that many of the
heathen are “true seekers after God,”
and are under the power of the spirit
of Christ, guiding them ever toward a
noble and better way. This view,
however, is against both the Scripture
and facts. Heathenism is no better
now than in the days of David. The
Psalmist says: "The Lord looked
down from heaven upon the children
of men to see if there were any that
did understand and seek God. They
are all gone aside; they are altogeth
er become filthy. There is none that
doeth good, no, not one.” Surely, if
there were any that did seek God, his
all-seeing eye would have found them.
But after careful search he testifies
that “every one hath turned away,”
or more emphatically, "the whole uni
verse hath turned away.” The uni
versality of the corruption is express
ed in as strong terms as possible.
Their corruption is thorough. Not
only are all corrupt, but all are entire
ly so. God sees that the wickedness
of man in pagan lands is great and
that every imagination of the thoughts
of tols heart ‘ is only evil continually.
And this universal corruption is wil
ful, from choice, and against clear
light. In looking over the works of
nature the first candid Instinct of the
heathen mind is not to worship the
works, tout him Who made the works,
and to see glorious features of Charac
ter shining through the works. Na
ture gives them light not only on the
existence and character of God, but
also on the code of duty which he has
laid down for human conduct, so that
“having not the law, they are a law un
to themselves.” Notwithstanding all
this light, they became steeped “in
trespasses and sins,” totally estranged
from God atyfciost in the most deplora
ble moral darkness. Seekers after
God would never have become the
worshipers of the “lying varieties" of
heathen temples. All the religious
rites of the heathen are but expres
sions of their intense hatred to the
true God. It is not the Christian but
the Christian’s God whom they hate.
The edict of the Japanese government,
that “if -any Christian or the Chris
tian’s God himself should set foot on
the islands, -he should lose his head,”
shows the animus of heathenism to
the God of Israel. The Chinese tongue
is said to be Satan's master-device to
exclude the Gospel, and translators
have been puzzlixl to know what word
to use for God. True seekers after
God never devised that language.
“The real tendency of human nature,”
says a learned writer, "left to itself is
found in heathenism. If there is in
man a sense of the holy, of the spir
itual and divine, if there is a real and
earnest longing for emancipation from
the bondage of sin, we would expect to
see it embodied in some of the forms
of religious worship in which man has
given utterance to the deepest and pro
founoest instincts of his soul. Do we
find any such yearning in the ritual of
heathenism? Is it the effort of a sin
ful being to find God and return into
the fellowship of his holy love? Is
its language that he is glorious and de
serves to be praised and loved, while
we are vile and ungrateful in with
holding the tribute that is due? So
far from it that no explanation can lie
given of its absurdities and monstrosi
ties, its contradictions to reason and
conscience, its violent -perversions
even of taste and decency, but that it
Is tile determined effort of a moral be
ing, cut loose from its Maker, to ex
tinguish all right apprehension of his
name. It lias outraged both reason
and conscience by putting the stamp
of religion upon crimes and atrocities
which one, it wAlil seem, never would
have he had been
resolutely as uniiatu-
him
declare in will worship
stocks and stoles, apes and baboons,
beasts and devils, before we will wor
ship the God of Israel,” and who have
effaced as far as it was in their power
every vestige of God from among them.
Hence their appalling state, for “with
out God man rots, society rots, na
tions rot.”
To whatever part of the heathen
world we -turn our eyes we find that
darkness covers the land and gross
darkness the people. They present a
scene of misery, degradation and death
Which should stir the heart and move
to tears all Christendom. .The apathy
of our churches to the condition of
these heathen is inexplicable except
upon the supposition of some “lurking
skepticism” as to their danger. “There
is a secret feeling where there is not a
developed conviction that after all they
Shall not surely die.” But we have
shown that there is no Scriptural war
rant for this notion. No reasonable
person can deny “that they who are
destitute of the external means are
also destitute of the internal dispensa
tion of grace; that they who are aliens
from the commonwealth!! of Israel and
strangers to the covenant of promise
are also without Christ; -being without
Christ, are without God and without
hope in the world. “It were as idle to
expect a crop from a soil in which no
seed had been deposited as to expect
the fruits of the Spirit where the Word
had not been disseminated.” That is
the instrument of grace and holiness.
To say that the heathen can be saved
Respectively of the work of Christ is
to renounce the whole doctrine of the
atonement and to pour contempt upon
that very zeal for the holiness of God
which lies at the foundation of the
Savior’s sacrifice. To suppose that
the benefits of redemption can be im
parted where the knowledge of redemp
tion is not found is “to violate all the
analogies of providence and to con
tradict the express teachings of revela
tion.”
With the Scriptures to guide us the
conclusion is inevitable that there is
no salvation without the knowledge
of Christ and faith in him. This has
ever been regarded “as the founda
tion of the obligation resting upon”
our churches “to preach the Gospel to
every creature. That they have been
so remiss in making It known is their
guilt. We must not charge the ignor
ance and consequent perdition of the
heathen upon God. The guilt rests
upon us. We have kept to ourselves
the Word of life and allowed the na
tions to perish.”
A few years ago warm-hearted Chris
tians were praying that God would
open this and that country to evange
lical efforts, and these prayers have
been answered. China and other coun
tries have admitted the Gospel and
the “fields are white to the harvest.”
but as yet the laborers are few and
bear no proportion to the magnitude
of the work to be done. Our churches
are only very partially awakened to a
sense of their responsibility and ac
countability in the evangelization of
the world. It is indeed distressing to
contemplate the unconcern of many
of the members of our churches upon
the subject of missions. They do not
understand that they have been called
into God's kingdom for this very end.
Knowing God, we must make him
known. To this very end he gracious
ly reveals himself to us. Both zeal for
God’s glory and compassion for our
fellow man demand our supreme effort.
If we have no zeal for God's glory and
no compassion for our fellow man,
"How dwelleth the love of God in us?"
But oh! the work—the work—its im
mensity deters us, exclaim many.
Well, we are not talking about the
work, but our duty. It would be our
duty if the enterprise were as hope
less as was that of Isaiah in his own
day. Still we should remember that
this is God’s work and we his instru
ments. Success depends not upon our
strength, but upon our fidelity to duty.
Our labors are never in vain when God
is our strength. We can say as Asa
did: “Lord, it is nothing with thee
to help, whether with many, or with
them that have no power, for we rest
on thee; in thy name we go against
this multitude.”
In conclusion we offer these brief re
flections: 1. The Gospel is for the
world. Go ye into all the world is
the-great commission. Obedience is
not conditioned upon any “if” or
“and.” The command is absolute. The
idea that God will convert the heath
en in his own good time and we have
nothing to do but to pray and devout
ly wait is utterly unscriptural. God’s
cause has ever been maintained and
carried forward by the most heroic
exertions. Besides, God assures you
that “he is able to make all grace to
abound toward you; that ye always
having all sufficiency in all things,
may abound to every good work.” 2.
The world must perish without it —un-
less you and I, and Christians in gen
eral, give it to them. Can we be in
different or idle with such a responsi
bility upon us? From the regions of
darkness and death, which are still un
der the dominion of false gods, it is
computed that forty immortal being;
go into eternity every minute, more
than 2,000 every hour, and more than
50,000 every day—so,ooo human beings
hastening daily to a tribunal of which
they never heard and ushered into the
presence of a God they never knew,
bcause his own churches have hitherto
failed to make him known. We can
adopt the language of the Israelites to
Pharaoh: “The fault is in thine own
people.” 3. The world is ready to re
ceive it. From Africa, from China,
from Japan, from the isles of the sea.
and from all over heathendom comes
th(, Macedonian .cry: J'Come
he-'p us.” Every nation has. noW
opened its doors to the Gospel and we
are urged to enlarge our operations
and press forward the work to its com
pletion. Ixjt not our effort be hin
dered or retarded by our sluggishness
or selfishness. Our King's command is
urgent because the emergency is great.
•I. We are commissioned to carry it
to them. What use has our Master
for us if we are not to take part in
spreading his Gospel till a knowledge
of it shall fiill the earth? What we need
now is a united effort. 5. Divine
power accompanies it wherever it goes,
quickening dead souls and imparting
the principles of a new life. Luther
says the power of God is such a force
as to elevate a man from sin to right
eousness, from death to life, from hell
to heaven, from the kingdom of Satan
to the kingdom of God and gives him
eternal salvation, and this power is in
the Gospel wherever it is preached in
faith and love. 6. The Gospel is sure
to triumph over all opposition. It will
vanquish the -powers of darkness and
emancipate the slaves of sin. The
Scriptures teach that the Son of God
came to destroy the works of the devil
and that he will accomplish this ob
ject: that the power of Satan shall be
broken and Christ’s reign become uni
versal. 7. Therefore, let us send it.
There is no time when Christ is with
us more graciously than when we are
engaged in spreading the Gospel. De
pressing views often afford an apology
for indifference and inaction. The
smallest peg suffices to hang an excuse
upon when we are anxious to escape
from the stern service of faith. It is.
therefore, a dreadful thing when
churches -begin to -be discouraged and
means must be used to stay the evil.
Such means we would use to-day. We
would point to -the standard of the
Divine purpose. One has said: "Re
member ye that are cast down that
there are other voices besides those of
the bittern and the owl from the waste
places. Hearken to him who promises
to make the wilderness like Eden and
the desert like the garden of the Lord.”
Gaze no longer at the thirsty land and
the burning sky; turn your eye where
the finger of the Lord points in his
word. Let us think and labor and
pray unceasingly for the. extension of
God’s kingdom and for the bringing on
of the day when the heathen shall be
given to Christ for his inheritance and
the utmost parts of the earth for his
possession; when it shall be said, The
Lord hath made bare his holy arm in
the sight of all nations and all the
ends of the earth have seen the salva
tion of God.
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priate, and full maps are also given.
There are 360 pages in the volume. So
much for the mechanical part of the
book. The Commentary, in itself,
seems to be most admirable. The style
is such as will be suited to all classes
of readers. It is free from technicali
ties, and has both the Common and
Revised Versions text at the foot of the
page of comments. There is no at
tempt at brevity, as a principle. This
is advantageous. It is refreshing to
have a man say in explanation all he
thinks he ought to say. We have ex
amined the passages where Baptists
might be unfairly dealt with by a pedo
baptist commentator. In every case a
judicious neutrality is preserved. The
effort is clearly made to be colorless,
and certainly nothing against Baptist
views is expressed. As Acts deals main
ly with historical comment there is -not
much occasion for this neutrality. Dr.
Rice is thoroughly evangelical. Help
ful suggestions as to the lessons of the
narrative are placed at the end of each
section. As the international lessons
are to be in the Acts during the whole
of 1897, such a book as this will be in
valuable. It is so cheap many can well
add it to their present equipment.
Fairy Starlight and the Dolls. By
Elizabeth S. Blakeley. A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co., 117 Wabash avenue,
Chicago. SI.OO.
Little Bianca wishes she could talk
to her dolls. And indeed, it does seem
to her that sometimes they surely must
feel and know. In the night time fairy
Starlight touches her, and transform
ing her into a doll, suffers her to be
among the dolls. In the night time
the dolls come to life, and such time as
they do have. Bianca among them, as
one of them, but forbidden to reveal
her identity, for once she does so the
dollscan never liveagain. 1 he kind fairy
conies night after night, and many are
the expeditions on which they go. In
the daytime Mrs. Caldean, Bianca’s
mother, tells her and her friends sto
ries and incidents. After a while
Bianca's little friend and playmate re
ceives the touch of the fairy's wand,
and she has some one with whom to
share her enjoyment. It is a most de
lightful hook and parents will rejoice
little hearts if they will secure it for
the children. It is full of good, whole
some lessons as well as real enjoyment
for them.
Korno Siga, the Mountain Chief; or,
Life in Mrs. Mjldred AJars;
* toiv American Sunday-school Un
ion, New York.
The author of this is, we understand,
a Baptist missionary. It is a simple
recital of early missionary impressions
and of actual missionary experiences.
The title simply indicates one of the
chief trophies of the labors of this
woman and her husband, the book is
actually one of Mrs. Marston’s own
experiences. As such, it is a useful
book. Mrs. Marston was early left a
widow in her far-off home and contin
ued the work of her husband after his
death, until the health and training of
her children compelled her to return
to America. Then, when the children
were grown, the heroic woman return
ed to her work in Assam. Such a life
must instruct and help. It is a good
book for libraries and for young peo
ple.
English Synonyms and Antonyms.
James C. Fernaid. Funk & Wag
nails Co., New York.
This is “designed as a companion for
the study and as a text-book for the
use of schools.” It includes a full dis
cussion of synonyms and antonyms
and notes on the correct use of prepo
sitions. Much of this material is taken
from the Standard Dictionary, for
which it was prepared by the author.
The definitions and distinctions are
clearly stated and well set forth. There
is no disposition to fine spun niceties,
but good, sound, sensible treatment.
The English language is peculiarly
rich in synonyms, and a command of
their uses gives richness to the style.
This book will be found most servicea
ble in the study of a preacher, and w r e
should judge it would make a fine text
book for school use.
Rick Dale. A Story of the Northwest
Coast. By Kirk Monroe. Harjter
Bros., New York.
This book deals with the adventures
of a delicate boy, who had been reared
in luxury, without real boyish experi
ences, and who, longing for these and
the strength that comes from them,
allows himself to be lost and seeks to
make his way in the wild Northwest.
His experiences on a smuggling vessel,
on which he ignorantly shipped, and
on a mountain trip, which he under
took with a French scientist, afford the
author an opportunity to describe the
smuggling of opium and of Chinese
into the United States from British
Columbia, and to set forth the glories
of the mountain scenery of that sec
tion of the country. The book will
delight boys, and is clean in language
and pure in tone; no vulgarity and no
profanity smut its pages.
Bible Characters, Adam to Achan. By
Alexander Whyte, D.D. Fleming H.
Revell Co., New York. Price $1.25.
We wish we knew something of the
good author of these sketches. They
are rare and racy, pungent with the
truth of the Gospel. They are brief,
but the style is unusually pithy and
strong. Twenty-six different persons
mentioned in the Bible are dealt with.
Not only are well-known personages
dealt with, but also some of lesser note,
such as Abel, Ham, Nimrod, Terah,
Many good things are scattered along.
Some spiritualizing is found, but even
this is flavored rightly. We should
think it likely to prove very suggestive.
St. Nicholas. January. The Century
Co., New York. 25 cents a number;
$3.00 a year.
“Danny and the Major,” the story of
a boy and a cavalry horse on the plains,
holds the reader and will not let him
go until he catches a long breath at
“the end.” Chinese men and Chinese
dragoons figure in “Hop Wing and the
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Missing Treasure.” “Mirrors in the
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lark.” June’s Garden” and the "True
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as are also, "The Lost Three Soldiers,”
and “A Boy I Knew,” who was a boy.
Another wonderful story is "A Ten
der-hearted Monster,” of the dragon
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The Century for January. The Cen
tury Co., New York.
This number opens with an article on
Lenbach, the German painter who,
among his other works of value, has
put on canvas the faces of all the con
temporaneous great men of Germany.
His famous portrait of Bismarck forms
the frontispiece to the magazine.
"Speech and Speech-reading for the
Deaf," affords information on a subject
which, to the average observer, borders
almost on the miraculous. "Campaign
ing with Grant." continues to hold the
interest of all readers, as must all that
is written by those who really know,
concerning this great soldier and man
of destiny. "Napoleon's Interest in the
Battle of New Orleans,” is a thrilling
little bit of history, including, as it
does, a description of the battle writ
ten by Andrew Jackson to James Mon
roe. “Hugh Wynne” is continued, as
is “A Rose of Yesterday." Mr, D.
Bickel, who was chairman of the Greek
committee in charge of the Olympian
games of 1896, contributes an interest
ing article on “Public Spirit in Modern
Athens.” This article is particularly
well illustrated. “'I he Lights of Sitka,”
and “A Girl of Modern Tyre," are com
pleted stories. Julian Hawthorne
pleasantly describes a Christmas visit
to Jamaica, in “Summer at Christmas
tide.” "Nelson in the Battle of the
Nile,” throws a ray on another great
battle picture. Poems and shorter ar
ticles fill out the number.
Every year the American Board of
Missions publishes a missionary alma
nac. which is full of missionary facts
and figures. In it are condensed many
facts pertaining to missions in various
fields, as well as valuable missionary
statistical tables. The price is only
ten cents, and missionary workers will
find it very valuable as a reference
book for missionary information. Ad
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set street. Boston, Mass.
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