Book Notices

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 24, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 46.

“THE COMPANION BIBLE,” being the Authorized Version of 1611, with the strictures and notes, critical, explanatory, and suggestive. Part 4, Isaiah to Malachi, with seventeen appendixes. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne.

This, in part, is the title page of volume 4 of “The Companion Bible.” The other volumes have been noticed in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES as they have been issued from the press. “The Companion Bible” is on an entirely new plan. The text is that called the Authorized Version. The work is not a commentary. The aim and object of the whole book is to let the Bible explain itself.

In Part 4 there are many references to the Pentateuch throughout. It shows that not only were its historical facts well known to the prophets and the people, but the peculiar legal phraseology was common among them. It incidentally shows clearly that the contention of some of the higher critics, that the laws of Moses, especially the book of Deuteronomy, are a late work, is unfounded. There are more than two thousand such references from Isaiah to Malachi inclusive. These are summarized in Appendix 2.

Of the seventeen appendixes, some of the noted are, “Chronological Order of the Prophets,” “The Interrelation of the Prophetical Books,” “Evidences for One Authorship of Isaiah,” “Chronological Order of Jeremiah’s Prophecies,” “A Diagram of the Sanctuary of Ezekiel 40 to 48,” “The Times and Number Days of Daniel.”

One may not agree with the conclusions of the appendixes always, but he will appreciate the suggestive helps given all the way through this volume.

The price is $1.50, uniform with the others.

We feel that in these volumes the Oxford University Press has performed a great work not only in providing helps for the study of the Bible, but in the large amount of evidence that is given of the integrity, authenticity, and unity of the Scriptures.

“THE WORLD,” by W. C. E. Newbolt, M. A. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Young Churchman Company. Price 50 cents.

This book is in the form of five sermons preached by the author, who is canon and chancellor of St. Paul’s, London, on the subject of the world as contrasted with the church. His preface would indicate that he was aroused to preach these sermons because of the conditions that prevail in society, particularly in England. Two short paragraphs of this preface are the following:

“There are not wanting indications that the heart of England is being aroused at the spectacle of the decay of law and order, of decency and reverence, which is so painful a sign of the times.

“It is for good people to realize and fall back on the old principles of religion and virtue which may yet save England from decay, and secure society from the imminent peril which awaits those who forget God.”

Canon Newbolt takes the ground strongly that our one hope in meeting the situation that is found in the world is dependence on the infallible word of God and a bringing of our lives into harmony with it.

The Missionary Calendar for 1915. A. W. Roffe, 274 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Canada. 35 cents. Reductions in quantity. A verse of poetry, a few figures, telling utterances of Christian leaders, brief notes on fields and work,—in one or the other form, this calendar provides a thought on missions for every day in the year. To keep the importance and progress of the extension of the kingdom of God before his own or another’s mind, the Christian will find this calendar valuable. Many of the points suggested could be developed to furnish topics for missionary studies in society programs, etc.