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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 21, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 48.

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TESTIMONIALS.

[From Eld. J. H. Waggoner.]
The Life and Epistles of Paul, by Conybeare and Howson, is emphatically a standard work, so thoroughly executed that it seems doubtful that it can be much improved upon. I have often referred to it in my studies, and always with profit. The apostle Paul was not only, to use his own words, “in labors more abundant,” but his letters form a large part of the literature of the New Testament. It is not for the mere gratification of curiosity that we wish to learn what we can of such a man. By studying his personal history and the circumstances connected with his untiring labors, we are able to enter into the spirit of his work, and far better to appreciate what he has written. I can cordially recommend this book to all students of the New Testament. J. H. WAGGONER.
[From Mrs. E. G. White.]
The Life of St. Paul by Conybeare and Howson, I regard as a book of great merit, and one of rare usefulness to the earnest student of the New Testament history. ELLEN G. WHITE.
[From Rev. G. S. Abbott, D. D.]
It is always a duty as well as a delight to recommend a good book. Full as the world is of book-making, standard books, the books that wear, the books that carry with them “the life-blood of master spirits,” such as the world will not let die, do not come from the press every day. Many lives of St. Paul have been well written; but none that begin to compare in scholarly fidelity, and in literary interest, with the Life of St. Paul by Conybeare and Howson. This book was first recommended to us by Rev. H. B. Hackett, D. D., LL. D., than whom it is safe to say America never had a superior Oriental linguist. Its recommendation could easily be obtained from any one of the finest teachers of Christian truth in our land. It has the charm of fiction, with no one of its perils. It holds the reader from first to last. It associates a thousand and one facts of contemporaneous secular with sacred history, which adds beauty and richness to the narrative, brings fully to view the scenes in the life of the mighty Apostle, who, like an Atlas, not of fable, bore the world for Christ’s sake on his shoulders. It shows us Paul making the tour of the world for Him whom he had persecuted. The book should be owned and read by everybody who has interest in the growth and progress of Christianity in the first century. Now that it is within every body’s reach, and now that the International Bible Lessons for 1883 begin with the Acts of the Apostles, its purchase at once will be exceedingly timely and profitable. One could desire that its sale this year might be immense, insuring thereby so much addition to Christian knowledge, all over the world. G. S. ABBOTT.