p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 22. (5/6/1915)

Earlier text: Colporteurs’ Summary for March, 1915

Choice Books on Missions

“The Price of Africa”

DEVOTED to the study of African missions and the experiences of those who have sacrificed their lives for the Dark Continent. Illustrated; contains maps and charts of Africa. Bound in red cloth; 225 pages; price, 50 cents, postage 8 cents.

“Into All the World”

A condensed history of missionary activity in all parts of the world. Contains helpful diagrams and outlines, and many reproductions from photographs of missionaries connected with the various mission stations. A strong feature of this volume is a list of other books which deal at length with the missionary work of each country, for the benefit of those who wish to specialize on some particular field. Attractively bound; 224 pages; price, 50 cents, postage 8 cents.

“Advance Guard of Missions”

The lives of 27 missionaries. It relates many narrow escapes of early missionaries from the Indians and other savages in different parts of the world. The book is an incentive to Christian living and missionary effort. Contains 347 pages; price, $1.50, postpaid.

“Daybreak in Korea”

The transformation of a heathen to a Christian in far-away Korea told in the form of a story, weaving in experiences of everyday life. Cloth; 124 pages; price, 60 cents, postage 8 cents.

“The Uplift of China”

A description of Chinese life, customs, characteristics, and social systems, as well as of the causes and effects of the recent revolution. 282 pages; cloth, 50 cents, postage 8 cents.

“Child Life in Mission Lands”

A book of mission stories for children. Interesting for older people as well. 180 pages; paper, 25 cents, postage 4 cents; cloth, 50 cents, postage 8 cents.

Order of your tract society.

Bible Readings for the Home Circle

By G. B. Thompson

Trade Edition — Revised

IN placing this new book on the market, we are offering the best trade edition of a subscription book ever got out. It contains all the texts of the new “Bible Readings,” which has proved such a success, with the additional feature of thin Bible paper of a soft creamy tint. While it contains nearly 600 pages, it is only five eighths of an inch thick in the flexible binding, and less than three fourths of an inch thick in the cloth binding.

It has 18 sections on practical, historic, and prophetic topics; 200 readings on as many subjects; and 4,000 questions answered by direct Bible quotations.

The leather book will, because of its flexibility and compactness, appeal to all classes of workers. In size of page, binding, and price, it is uniform with “The Great Controversy,” “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Daniel and the Revelation,” and “The Acts of the Apostles.”

Cloth, plain edges ............ $1.50 Flexible red leather, round corners ............ 2.00

The Ministry of the Spirit

By G. B. Thompson

A BOOK for the quiet hour. It develops the practical side of the Christian life; strengthens faith, hope, courage, and other Christian graces. It assists in making Christianity a real thing to the Christian, and the believer an aid and benefactor to those about him.

The book is naturally divided into three sections: First, a didactic treatise of the subject of the Holy Spirit (chapters 1-9), dealing with such topics as the Spirit in the Old and the New Testament, the promise and the advent of the Spirit; second, the effect of the Holy Spirit on the life (chapters 10-24), as indicated by the titles, “Prayer,” “The Tongue,” “Faith;” third, the effect of the Holy Spirit (chapters 25-31).

Lay aside business and forget the perplexities of life long enough to study this book and receive added power for future usefulness.

The book will be a valuable addition to any library.

Cloth binding ............ $.75.

ORDER OF YOUR TRACT SOCIETY

Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C.

The Free Press Number of Liberty Magazine

THIRTY-EIGHT conferences have thus far voted to send the Free Press number of the Liberty Magazine to all the newspaper editors in their fields. If the other conferences will do the same, it will place this important issue in the hands of thirty thousand of the leading molders of public opinion.

News of Sister White and Mrs. Lewis

By Editor

UNDER date of April 23 Elder W. C. White reports that the condition of his mother, Sister E. G. White, continues about the same as for the past few weeks. He says: “Sometimes mother is very feeble, and we think she cannot live but a few days. Then she revives again, and it seems today that the prospect of her continuing for some time is as good as it was three weeks ago. Still we must admit that week by week she shows much less strength. We thank the Lord that he has prolonged her days, that she suffers but little, and that she has the comfort of the Holy Spirit.”

We announce with sadness the death of Mrs. C. C. Lewis, which occurred at Takoma Park, D. C., April 22. Sister Lewis was known personally to many of our readers through her long years of prominent service in connection with our educational institutions, and the last year all our readers became acquainted with her as editor of the Home department of the REVIEW. An appropriate sketch of her life experiences will appear in the Home department next week.

Present Truth Series

By Editor

The following word in behalf of the REVIEW AND HERALD Present Truth Series is just received from one of our workers in India:—

“The Present Truth Series of the REVIEW will be of very great service to us, and we are planning to make extensive use of the same.”

This sentiment is reaching the publishers of the Present Truth Series from all parts of the country. Our people greatly appreciate having this series with which to do systematic missionary work. The orders continue to reach us in large numbers. As the season advances, the orders increase. We feel grateful for the evidence of extended missionary effort as the result of the existence of the Present Truth Series.

An enthusiastic supporter of the Protestant Magazine, in a letter forwarding seven subscriptions, wrote: “Each issue of your magazine seems better than the last, and I wish for means to send them to hundreds.” A locomotive engineer ordered fifty copies of the May number for distribution where he thought they would do the most good. A business man in Alabama, who has been a regular reader of the Protestant Magazine, in a letter in which he promised his hearty cooperation in securing new subscribers, said: “I wish to see the Protestant Magazine, the highest classed and most dignified and most scholarly of all anti-papal publications, distributed more widely.” Acting upon the same principle, Brother A. F. Harrison, the field missionary secretary of the Southwestern Union Conference, has recently sent in another list of subscribers. So great is the interest in the Roman Catholic issue that it is not difficult to secure subscriptions for the Protestant Magazine.

Literature Entering Tibet

In the last letter from Brother F. A. Allum, at Chung-king, province of Szechuan, West China, bordering on Tibet, he says:—

“Recently we had an interesting interview with three Tibetan priests who had come to Chung-king on a pilgrimage. We were interested to know that we could converse with them freely in the Mandarin language, which they readily understood. They told us that there were many Tibetans who understand the Mandarin, so we gave them a generous supply of our literature, and they promised to give it to their friends on their return. What the results of this literature distribution will be we cannot say. So far as we know, this is the first time that Seventh-day Adventists have come in contact with this remarkable people.”

Let us pray that the way may soon open for missionaries to enter this interesting field.

Comfort in Christian Hope

It has been said, and we believe truly, that he who has never known sorrow has never come to know God. At least it is only those who have passed through great trial and sorrow who come to appreciate fully the consolation of the Christian’s hope. A letter from Elder J. H. Rogers, whose wife died several weeks ago, contains the following words of courage in hours of darkness: “The many kind and sympathetic words spoken and written by my dear friends have been greatly appreciated in my grief. The walk of my wife and myself in life’s rugged pathway had become more and more endearing as time rolled on, for we were spared to spend more than sixty-one years together. Now the rose bloom fades, and the thorns appear to torture my heart in this uncertain time. But I am sustained by the blessed hope that we shall soon meet where there is no sorrow. This gives me comfort in my sad bereavement.”

The Review’s Encouraging Influence

ELDER JOHN ISAAC, president of the Oklahoma Conference, in sending an encouraging report of the progress of the work in his field says of our church paper: “The good old REVIEW bears the message for these days in clear tones, and is always awaited with eagerness and read with interest. In one place where I held tent meetings two years ago, a woman accepted the truth and subscribed for the REVIEW. When I visited her later, she told me that if it had not been for the REVIEW she feared she would not have been able to stand the opposition she had to meet from her family and relatives. The articles on different points of faith strengthened her so that she was able to hold out faithfully. Two months after that visit she died, sound in the faith. This is only one example of what I have found in my labors to prove the good work the REVIEW AND HERALD is doing. May the Lord bless you in your work.”

Washington Sanitarium Patronage

THE Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium has been enjoying an excellent patronage during the last few weeks. The house is practically filled with an excellent class of guests, and the correspondence indicates that many others are considering the question of spending some time at the Sanitarium in the near future.

Educational Conventions

By Editor

THE article by Elder I. H. Evans in the Editorial department and the announcement by Prof. Frederick Griggs in the Educational department, pertaining to educational conventions, will be read with interest by our educational workers throughout the field. We believe that these meetings will prove a great help to our educational work.

Pacific Union Educational Fund

BROTHER FRANK A. COFFIN, publicity secretary of the Pacific Union Conference, writes that that union has been enabled to secure one hundred and twelve thousand dollars on the educational fund of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars which the union started out to raise some months ago. This is truly encouraging. We believe that the Lord will cooperate with the managers of our conferences and institutions who keep before them a determined purpose to get free from debt.

Study the Papal System

By Rev. John M. Kyle, D. D.

The day has come when every Protestant minister, especially every Protestant minister in New England, should study the papal system, its history, its doctrines, its spirit, and its influence. He should study it in the light of Scripture, of reason, and of the world's experience. And then he should make it one of the distinct, one of the definite aims of his life to warn men of its dangers and to rescue men from its power; for I am persuaded that there are few ways in which he can better serve his day and generation.—Rev. John M. Kyle, D. D., in the Protestant Magazine, May, 1915.

"The World's Crisis," in Spanish

By N. Z. TOWN.

WHEN the pamphlet "The World's Crisis" was first published in English, there was quite an urgent demand from some of the Spanish-speaking fields for it to be translated into the Spanish language. This work has been done by our brethren in South America, and they have recently issued the book from the press in Argentina. Any fields that desire to get supplies of this book in Spanish should send their orders to G. E. Hartman, Florida, F. C. C. A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.

N. Z. TOWN.