Recent Books from Gospel Trumpet
By Editor
"The Secret of Prayer: How and Why We Pray." By E. E. Byrum. "The Revelation Explained; an Exposition Text by Text of the Apocalypse of St. John." By F. G. Smith. "The Home Training, or the Secret of Character Building." By S. B. Ervin. These are all works received from the Gospel Trumpet Company, Anderson, Indiana. "The Secret of Prayer" contains forty-nine short chapters, bringing before the reader the great promises of God and the conditions of prayer. It is filled with simple, plain Bible instruction, and is certainly helpful to the one who is devotionally inclined. "The Revelation Explained," a book of 447 pages, attempts a simple explanation of the book. The author in general takes the historical view of prophecy. To us, however, it seems that he has failed to grasp the great dramatic sevenfold outline of the book. One never will see the Revelation in all its meaning until he can see that it is indeed not one vision, but seven sevenfold revelations of various conditions in this earth until our Lord Jesus Christ shall come. The binding of Satan, or the dragon of Revelation 20, he places in the past — a strange thing, in view of the conditions which have existed in the world! He does not see that at the time that Satan is bound, the whole earth is itself desolated, and the end of that thousand years is the second resurrection. The third of these books, "Home Training," is one of the many efforts that is being made in various churches at the present time to lift the home training higher, to develop stronger characters in the boys and the girls, to place their feet on a more solid and substantial platform than the society of the world can possibly give, and to fit them for usefulness in the world to come.