Recent Book Notices

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 23, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 37.

Recent Book Notices

"Struggles of Religious Liberty, How Maintained in California." By John Orr Corliss. Price 10c. Pacific Press Publishing Association.

This is "Bible Students' Library," No. 206. The special topic considered in the work is the struggles to maintain religious liberty as worked out in California. Mr. Corliss has been engaged in this work for a great many years, and he speaks with knowledge of the topic that he discusses. He treats of the early history of religious liberty, the court decisions regarding California's Sunday laws, the unique position that California occupies, the noble men in her legislature who have stood for religious liberty, the use of the initiative and referendum as applied to it, with a candid appeal to the reader, and an appendix containing the last proposed Sunday law. It is an excellent little work if one wishes to learn what has been done in this respect in California.

"A Hundred Years of Missions." Third revised edition. By D. L. Leonard, D.D. Price $1.20. Funk & Wagnalls Company, publishers, New York and London.

This work first appeared in 1895, and met with so much favor that a second edition appeared in 1903; and now, after a period of ten years, there has been such growth in Christian missions that a new edition is demanded; and hence this third edition of the work. The book gives the story of mission progress since Carey's beginning, more than one hundred years ago; tells of the wonderful achievements and heroism of the souls who have been engaged in the struggle. It has been arranged to meet the wants of the general reader. First come the prefaces of the various editions, the introduction, The Christian Idea of Missions, Missions in the Early Centuries, Conversion of Northern and Western Europe, The Non-Missionary Centuries, Reformation and Discovery of America, Roman Catholic Missions, Preparation for Foreign Missions, Protestant Missions before Carey, The Carey Epoch, The Great Missionary Revival, The Beginning of Missions in America, The Phenomenon of Missionary Expansion, Missions in India, Africa, Madagascar, Islands of the Sea, Turkish Empire, Persia, China, Japan, Korea, Spanish America, and the American Indians. It contrasts the time of a hundred years ago and now, and portrays before us the land yet to be possessed. It has also a good index and contents, a vast amount of matter that every missionary worker will need.