p. 7 | LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 5, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 14.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

"The Encyclopedia of Missions. Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, Statistical." Second edition. Edited under the auspices of the Bureau of Missions by Rev. Henry Otis Dwight, LL.D., Rev. H. Allen Tupper, Jr., D.D., and Rev. Edwin Munsell Bliss, D.D. 870 pages; cloth, $6.00, net; carriage, 50 cents. Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and London.

The voluminous contents include: (1) The most recent advance in the missionary occupation of the world; (2) the development of older fields; (3) the development of missionary methods; (4) biographical notes; (5) an exhaustive list of missionaries of all nations who have translated the Bible into heathen languages; (6) a complete directory of missionary societies, with post-office addresses; (7) tables of interesting and valuable statistics, etc. The work is especially useful to students of missionary enterprise, to ministers, editors, and teachers, in fact, to all who are interested in the spread of the Gospel. It is a splendid supplement to secular encyclopedias, which give so little of the religious movements of a country, movements which in so many instances are of preeminent importance. This work should be in every up-to-date library. It is inspiring in giving the barest facts of what the soldiers of the cross have done. The list of scripture translations, in some cases marking the very beginning of a systematic language among tribes, is a valuable addition.

"Self-Healing through Suggestion." By Henry Harrison Brown, San Francisco, Cal. Paper cover, 61 pages, price, 25 cents.

Like all exponents of a heathen philosophy, this book opens with a declaration that contradicts the Word of God, and would nullify the Gospel work. "Health," the author says, "is the normal physical condition." That would be true if there were no sin and none of the fruits of sin in the world to-day; but as these things do exist, and in ever-increasing quantity, the statement is not true. There is not in the world to-day a perfectly healthy specimen of the human race. The blight and canker of sin are visible in every land. The author of this book holds the human mind responsible for all the disease of the race. So he would cure all diseases by teaching the diseased person to declare he has no disease about him. He would go still farther and have the person declare that he has within himself all power; that he has within himself the very source of life; that he is all God is—in short, that man is God. It is the repetition of the tempter's lie in Eden—"Ye shall be as gods." "Get thee behind me, Satan."

(Continued on page 13).