BOOK NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 17, 1906

BOOK NOTICES.

By Editor

"His Life" in the words of the four Gospels. An interwoven narrative. Hope Publishing Co., 228 Wabash Ave., Chicago.

Some time ago the Pastors' Union of Oak Park, Ill., completed through a committee a new harmony of the Gospels. So far as we have been able to examine it, it is an excellent one. The design is the same as the design of all other harmonies are, interwoven Gospels, making the entire record of Jesus upon the earth one consecutive narrative from beginning to end. Another excellent thing about this one is that it is cheap. It was first published at fourteen cents when sold by the Pastors' Union, but now the Hope Publishing Company have found it necessary to increase the price to single copies, cloth-finished flexible cardboard, 15 cents. Ten copies, $1.25; 25 copies, 10 cents each. Cloth, 25 cents; 10 copies, $2.25; full gilt edges, 75 cents. The text used in the Harmony is that of the American Standard Revised Version, the very best. There certainly ought to be a large sale of the books.

Charlotte Temple. A Tale of Truth. By Susanna Haswell Rawson. Reprinted from the Rare First American Edition (1794), over 1,200 Errors in Later Editions Being Corrected, and the Preface Restored. With an Historical and Biographical Introduction by Francis W. Halsey. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London

Thus reads the title page of a sad, true story of a confiding girl, and the fearful fate of those who accomplished her ruin. The events narrated occurred during the times of the Revolution, and have been written many times.

Brother Hill's Bible Class. A Study of Excuses, Inventions, Fables, and Dreams, addressed to the honest-hearted. By W. B. Hill. 76 pages. Price 15 cents. International Publishing Association, College View, Nebraska.

Since this pamphlet came to us for review, the author, an aged and godly minister, has passed away. He had his own quaint, direct, straightforward way. This pamphlet is devoted to the law and the Sabbath, and his class is composed of fifteen ministers of various denominations who have written and spoken on the subject. All their objections are met with plain Bible instruction.

Four Weeks of Family Worship for Busy Homes. By William E. Barton, D.D. The Puritan Press, Oak Park, Ill.

The title of the booklet indicates its purpose. Each day's service includes a verse to be learned for the day, a short, practical scripture lesson, a verse of a hymn, a short prayer, and the Lord's Prayer. The services suggested are splendid with one exception. Let the people do their own praying. Those who do not feel enough gratitude to God to thank Him for mercies bestowed, and have not sense enough to need to ask Him for cleansing and help, will not be aided much by formal, read prayers which may in no way meet their need. The bad theology of the pamphlet is all in the prayers and one or two hymns. Sunday is called a holy day with no scriptural reason. Many of the prayers are utterly Christless; and the highest of the Higher Critics would find no objection to their phraseology.