Pamphlets for Review by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 1, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 30.

Pamphlets for Review

By Editor

There lie upon our table quite a number of pamphlets that have been sent us for review, but for which we have not space, some of which are worthy of note: "Moderate Drinking; Its Dangers and Possibilities." An address delivered before the World's Temperance Centennial Congress held at Saratoga Springs, New York, June 18, 1908, by Louis D. Mason, M.D., of Brooklyn, New York, vice-president of the American Society for the Study of Inebriety and Drug Neurosis. Published by the Smith-Linsley Co., Publishers, Hartford, Connecticut. It is full of instruction and suggestion to those who think that moderate drinking is permissible. We wish that all our moderate drinkers would read the address.

"Approximate Chronology of the Passover and the Crucifixion." By H. H. Perry, 67 19th St., San Diego, California. Price 25 cents. The purpose of which is to place in condensed form a few facts from Scripture, history, and astronomy that will enable the reader to understand the exact time of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, giving the year, the month, the day of the month, the time of the moon, the day of the week, and the day of the Jewish month — Abib or Nisan.

One pamphlet bears the title of "A Reparation; Universal Gravitation a Universal Fake; the Earth an Outstretched Plane; Sun, Moon, and Stars Small Bodies Near the Earth; Astronomical, Scientific, and Biblical Evidence." By C. S. De Ford, Fairfield, Washington, U. S. A. And we rather think that this is met by another one with this title: "The Earth a Globe; Bible, Geographical, and Astronomical Facts. An Exposition of the Falsehoods, Fallacies, Facts, and Fancies of Parallax . . . and Others Who Have Been Bible Believers for Years, about the Shape of the Earth." By David Nield, 148 Crawford St., Wellington, New Zealand.

"Concerning Card-Playing." By John Franklin Cowan, D.D., published from "The Christian Endeavor World." P. Anstadt & Sons, New York and Philadelphia. The gist of the little pamphlet, the price of which is 10 cents, is to the effect that card-playing is dangerous, and even tho not dangerous is not worth the time given to it.

"Our Economic and Social Relations; What They Are and What They Might Be." By John F. Reihl, Seattle, Washington. A little pamphlet against the competitive method, and for government oversight of all industries.

"Doctrinal Unity and Organic Union of the Lord's People." By R. K. Maiden, editor of "The Word and Way." Price 10 cents. Published by The Western Baptist Publishing Assn., Kansas City. It is a plea for Scriptural union on a Biblical basis, which we wish the

author would carry out to the full. He names as the inspired creed Eph. 4:4-6, one of those wonderfully comprehensive Scripture texts with which the Bible abounds. There is another more definite and more comprehensive in Rev. 14:12. The author regrets the papal imports which have crept in, such as sprinkling and pouring for baptism, and infant baptism. It seems to us that he ought to have classed with them the Sunday, and come back straight and square upon God's Word and the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, and we would join with him heart and hand, and instead of a text becoming the foundation, that the Holy Bible itself be an inspired standard for God's people. In that only, it seems to us, is there truly hope.