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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 5, 1902

Conducted by the Department of Circulation of the Review and Herald Publishing Company.

The Test of a Book

THE real merit of a book is found in its power to mold the mind of the reader. A book that simply entertains, and leaves its readers without pronounced convictions favorable to its contents, is a failure. Applying this test to “The Marvel of Nations” in the English, German, Danish, and Swedish languages, we find it to be a very successful work. Recent reports from the effects of this book are favorable in all the languages in which it is published.

While the first part of the book deals largely with the growth and prosperity of this country, the intent of the entire book is to teach the people the facts of prophecy concerning the future of this nation and the ushering in of the kingdom of God. The style and the general subject-matter of the work are such as to attract the attention of the people, and render the book easy to sell. All our brethren and sisters should take an active part in the sale of this book. It has recently been revised and brought up to date. It is very attractive in appearance, and the foreign people buy it readily on account of its being the first publication of its kind in this country in the German, Danish, and Swedish languages.

The prospectuses sell for 60 cents, postpaid. Foreign books sell for the same price as do the English, $1.25 and $1.50.

Place all orders with the State Tract Societies.

A New Revised Bible

THE American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible was published in August, 1901. This late revision is the product of the American Revision Committee, who, in the preparation of the Appendix of 1885, in order to reduce the differences between themselves and the British revisers to the lowest limit, waived the larger part of their preferences, many of which they regarded as of decided importance. This new edition of the American Standard Bible embodies a considerable part of the emendations which represent the deliberate preferences of the whole American Committee, which were not put into the 1885 revision.

In addition to incorporating in the text the renderings preferred by the American Committee, but hitherto printed in the Appendix to the old revision only, this new edition contains rectified errors, inconsistencies, oversights, and infelicities, which are always incidental to the first edition of a book like this; also, carefully selected references and topical headings, and important suggestions made by the American revisers in the progress of their work, but waived in drawing up their Appendix to the English revision of 1885.

Printed in long primer, quarto, a very large, plain print, especially desirable for impaired vision or for reading by gaslight. Bound in one size only, 8¾ x 6¾ inches, and in three bindings:— Cloth boards, red edges … $1.50; Egyptian seal, limp, round corners, red under gold edges … $2.50; Persian Levant, divinity circuit, leather lined to edge, silk sewed, round corners, red under gold edges … $4.50.

What Others Say of This Bible

By remarkably unanimous consent, America now possesses the most excellent translation of the Holy Scriptures ever published in the English tongue. There has been neither party nor faction discernible in the welcome paid by Biblical scholarship to the American revision of the Bible.—The Interior.

The most important volume that American scholarship has ever produced.—Church Economist.

The best entire version of the Bible now before the public. Why should it not be generally adopted?—The Examiner.

There can be no doubt that in this version we are nearer the thought, and therefore the spirit, of the Master, than in any other version now existing in English.—Northwestern Christian Advocate.

Order of the Review and Herald Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

“Patriarchs and Prophets”

AN excellent and important commentary on the principal Bible subjects from Adam to the death of David, and especially essential in the study of the subjects of the International Sunday-school Lessons for the third and fourth quarters of the present year.

As the International Lessons from July 6 through the remainder of the present year are upon some of the principal subjects in connection with the exodus and the general history of the children of Israel, and the thousands who will study these lessons are interested in all the subjects especially treated in “Patriarchs and Prophets,” the present time is unusually favorable for the placing of this important volume in the homes of the Bible students of the entire country.

Our people should put forth every effort possible to place this book in the homes of the Sunday-school people immediately. It is published in the English, Danish, Swedish, German, and Holland languages. Beautifully bound in all the popular bindings; 760 octavo pages. Prices, $2.25–$4.50.

Place all orders with the State Tract Societies.

“Story of Daniel the Prophet”

An excellent book to study in connection with the Sabbath-School lessons for the present quarter

BEGINNING with the fourth lesson, the greater part of the remaining lessons for the quarter are upon the events recorded in the first and second chapters of the book of Daniel. These chapters contain the account of the captivity of Judah and the experiences of Daniel and his companions.

The “Story of Daniel the Prophet” is the fruit of many years of close Bible study and untiring research, and contains, in addition to an excellent biography of the great prophet, much important matter that will be especially helpful to all who study the Sabbath-school lessons for the present quarter. The following chapter headings of the book, compared with the subjects of the Sabbath-school lessons, will suffice to show the importance of the “Story of Daniel the Prophet” in connection with a thorough study of the Sabbath-school lessons for the present quarter:—

Daniel and His Followers Tested; A Controversy between Truth and Error; True Freedom in Worship; The Most High Ruleth; Last Years of the Babylonian Kingdom; The Handwriting on the Wall; Daniel in the Lions’ Den; Prophecy of Daniel Seven; The Eighth of Daniel; History of the Jews; The Sanctuary; Introduction to the Last Vision; History of the Decrees; History of Greece; The Fourth Kingdom; The Mystery of Iniquity; Work of the Mystery of Iniquity.

The book is beautifully bound; size, 6¼ x 8¼ inches; 295 pages; set in new, clear type, with the Scripture texts in the margin. Price, 75 cents, postpaid.

Place all orders with the State Tract Societies.

Tent-Meeting Leaflets

SERIES of thirty-two numbers, excellent for use in connection with the tent effort, and also good for general circulation.

The series covers the following subjects:—

No. 1, Our Sure Guide; No. 2, A Wonderful Dream; No. 3, Four Great Monarchies; No. 4, Do You Know? No. 5, Do You See Them? (scoffers); No. 6, The Law of God; No. 7, Who Changed the Sabbath? No. 8, Rome’s Challenge; No. 9, Do You Believe This? (the law of God); No. 10, A Plain Question; No. 11, Some Things That We Believe; No. 12, Don’t Try to Improve It (the law); No. 13, Which Day Do You Keep? No. 14, Duty to God; No. 15, A Blessing and a Promise; No. 16, He Saves to the Uttermost; No. 17, Plain Language (on the law); No. 18, Be Not Deceived; No. 19, Does God Mean What He Says? No. 20, The Two Laws; No. 21, The Harmony of the Law and the Gospel; No. 22, Will You Have Right to the Tree of Life? No. 23, Does This Mean You? No. 24, Have You a Carnal Mind? No. 25, God’s Call; No. 26, The Judgment; No. 27, Are You Guilty? No. 28, Behold, I Come Quickly; No. 29, An Invitation; No. 30, Here Is Wisdom (666); No. 31, Will You Stand in the Judgment? No. 32, Can This Be Said of You?

Each number is composed of two pages of reading, 5½ x 7¾ inches in size. Many of them are illustrated. All are unique in design and excellent in matter. Price, 10 cents per hundred, postpaid.

The Review and Herald Publishing Company has about 200 of these series bound in paper cover for convenience in preserving them for reference. Price of bound numbers, 5 cents each, postpaid.

The New Commandment Charts

THE Review and Herald Publishing Company has just received a new supply of very fine Commandment Lecture Charts. These charts are 36 x 46 inches in size, and are printed on extra fine cloth, and in type appropriate for tent and hall use. Price, $1, postpaid.