Books with a Mission

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 16, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 50.

Books with a Mission

CHILDREN'S COLUMN

Do you like good stories?-"Of course we do," you all answer at once. Then we know you would like

THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN

This is a book of twenty-six stories, told by a mother to her children—Percy, Helen, and Amy. These stories are all about the effect different foods and drinks have upon the body, and how you can keep yourself well and strong. It is full of new pictures, and has a very pretty cover showing a boy and girl going to school. Price 75 cents.

BOTANY FOR CHILDREN

"I don't call this a lesson; such pleasant talk isn't study. I'd go to school all the year if I had my lessons this way," said one little girl after listening to one of the "talks" given by Aunt Mary, and written in this book. Fifty pictures of plants. Good cloth covers. Price $1.00.

GOLDEN GRAINS

Ten very small books with paper covers, filled with good stories. Only 25 cents for the whole set.

GOSPEL PRIMER

More than half a million boys and girls have already studied this good book. The most of its reading lessons are well-told Bible stories. These stories are told both in words and pictures, and are very interesting. Cloth covers, 50 cents; boards, 25 cents.

BEST STORIES FROM THE BEST BOOK

In two parts, the first called the "Easy Lessons Part," and the second, "Bible Story Department." Some of its many pictures are nicely colored. Board covers, 50 cents; cloth 75 cents.

JACK THE CONQUEROR

How a poor, ragged little boy became a great and good man. Cloth cover 50 cents.

SABBATH READINGS

Just the kind of stories your parents will like to read to you, because they are interesting to the grown-up people as well as to you. Price 40 cents.

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

Maybe you have not yet read this story of how a man by the name of Christian traveled to the Celestial City. If not, you want to at once. This edition is bound in cloth, and costs only 25 cents.

FOUR PICTURE BOOKS

Bible animals. Bible alphabet. First book of Bible knowledge. Farmyard alphabet. These books are bound in heavy paper covers and are full of pictures, some of them in colors. Price each 25 cents, or the four for 90 cents.

CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS

By Mrs. E. G. White

Christ's wonderful lessons as taught in His parables and their applications are beautifully presented by the author in a simple yet powerful style. New and old truths are made to shine forth with a luster that is inspiring indeed.

"Abounds in fruitful suggestions both spiritual and practical."—H. J. Vosburgh, D. D., First Baptist Church of Oakland. "Thoroughly scriptural, wholesome and evangelical."—Elbert R. Dille, D. D., First M. E. Church, Oakland, Cal. "An unsectarian, devotional book of unusual purity and sweetness."—H. C. Meredith, M. E. Church S., San Jose, Cal.

The book is handsomely illustrated with half-tone engravings and bound in antique cloth with an artistic cover design. 450 pages. PRICE, CLOTH GILT $1.25, POST-PAID

POWER FOR WITNESSING

By A. F. Ballenger

Those desiring power in order to effectually witness for Christ should read and study this book. It does not deal in generalities and theories which fail to work out in actual experience, but instructs the Christian how to obtain that tangible hold on the power of the Holy Spirit which "effectually worketh in them that believe." There are 44 chapters, among which are the following:—

The Preparation, "Forgiveness of Sins," Ye Are My Witnesses, Personal Experience in Receiving Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins, The Spirit Calls for Confession and Restitution, Righteousness then Power, Personal Experience in Receiving Keeping Power, Humility then Glory, the Holy Spirit and the Unpardonable Sin, Miracles and the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, etc. 201 pages, bound in cloth and paper. PRICE, CLOTH 75c; PAPER, 25c, POST-PAID

EDUCATION

By Mrs. E. G. White

A great work of inestimable worth to not only teachers and students, but to parents and business men as well. The author's thought is revealed in the following paragraphs from the book.

"True education means more than the pursuit of a certain course of study . . . It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers." From Chapter I, "First Principles."

"In the highest sense the work of education and the work of redemption are one; for in education, as in redemption, 'other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Christ Jesus.'" From Chapter on "Relation of Education to Redemption." 321 pages, attractively bound as illustrated. PRICE, CLOTH $1.25; LEATHER, $2.00, POST-PAID

THE BOY PUZZLE

By Rev. Joseph F. Flint

A thoroughly practical work by a man who has spent many years laboring among boys in industrial and other schools, and who has made the subject of their training, and their mental, moral, and spiritual development a life study. The author's thought is suggested in the following sentence from the book: "The essential principles of child-training are patience, not impulse; sympathy, not severity; justice, tact, tenderness and love."

Here are a few chapter headings: A Bundle of Possibilities, In Leading Strings, Mother's Little Man, Young Hotspur, Manhood's Morning, The Voting Age, The Noblest Work of God. Attractively bound in cloth. PRICE, CLOTH 75c, POST-PAID

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