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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1901

BOOK NOTICES.

“EARLY CONVERSION.” By Rev. Edward Payson Hammond, M.A. 12mo, 224 pp.; cloth, 50 cents; paper covers, 25 cents. J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co., 57 Rose Street, New York.

The author of this book has spent many years in revival work, especially among the young. He has now reached ripe old age. He can see what the conversion of children has amounted to in his own experience; and he finds nothing to disappoint. The work has many interesting illustrations helpful to workers among children. It answers the questions, Will early conversion abide? What can children do for Jesus? and others. May God bless the little book in its mission of stirring up Christian workers to work for the children.

“THE RELIGION OF DEMOCRACY.” By Charles Ferguson. 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.00. New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Co.

Mr. Ferguson’s book is lucid and very taking in style. It makes of Americanism a religion, predicts the fall of medievalism, and promises the rise of a Democratic Catholic Church. But while the author earnestly and honestly no doubt wants to give the world a message of hope, he prophesies as falsely of the future as did the prophets of Israel who predicted that Jerusalem was safe from the power of Babylon. The only religion that will endure is the religion of Jesus Christ. This Mr. Ferguson sometimes tells us, but his rhetorical coruscations and scintillations are often contradictory and especially unbiblical.

“JUKES-EDWARDS, A STUDY IN EDUCATION AND HEREDITY.” By A. E. Winship, Litt. D. 12mo, silk cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents. R. L. Myers & Co., Harrisburg, Pa.

In this admirable little study Dr. Winship has contrasted the family of Jonathan Edwards with what is known as the Jukes, the descendants of an idle, jolly, shiftless man, who lived in Northern New York, styled as “Max.” Dr. Winship has, in this little monograph, done the cause of education a valuable service. It ought to be read by every parent, teacher, minister, and person interested in the young.

“SHALL WE BELIEVE IN A DIVINE PROVIDENCE?” By D. W. Faunce, D.D. 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.00. New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Co.

Dr. Faunce makes no attempt to solve all the mysteries of providence. He even holds that mystery in part, during this present life, is itself a providential arrangement, giving, as it does, room for trustfulness and incentive to courage. But there are some very serious misunderstandings which make for men a needless and harmless mystery; and the attempt is made to lift some of these denser shadows which are cast more by our human mistakes than anything which the divine wisdom sends upon us. He endeavors to get his readers to look upon the mysteries of providence as God sees them. The book contains much of suggestive helpfulness, and its style is winning and polished.

“POWER OF THE TOBACCO HABIT.” By Charlotte Smith Augstman. Price, 20 cents. Wood-Allen Publishing Co., Ann Arbor, Mich.

This little brochure is both interesting and instructive. It ought to have a large circulation. Its readableness and helpfulness would be aided by subheads throughout the article.

“THE INVESTIGATION OF A GRAVE CHARGE,” is the title of a pamphlet of 26 pages, by F. C. Gilbert, of South Lancaster, Mass. It is a reply to Wm. A. Burch, of Worcester, Mass., who has published a document declaring that Seventh-day Adventists teach that all Sunday-keepers of past and present have the mark of the beast. This Mr. Gilbert clearly shows to be false; and there are other things of worth in the pamphlet. We should judge the price to be about five cents, and doubtless copies may be had by addressing the author as above.