CREDIT PLAN FOR BOOKS
Restoration Review is
now offering a credit plan for its readers. It is so simple that
there are not even any carrying charges! You simply order what books
you want, and you don’t have to pay anything down, and then pay
for them, beginning the following month, at the rate of 10% of
balance each month, with a minimum payment of $5.00 each month. For
example, if you wish to order $60 worth of books now,
you can do so without any down payment. The
first of next month we will send you a bill, indicating that $6.00 is
due. When your balance falls below $50, you will be billed for the
$5.00 minimum until the account is cleared. But you can keep ordering
as you see books advertised that you would like to have, without
clearing the balance of previous order. All we ask is that you pay
10% of the balance each month, and that you keep your account within
a $100.00 limit.
In view of this emphasis on books we will be calling
your attention to many more each month than we have been recently. In
order to keep you informed we survey some 15 journals each month,
both foreign and domestic, and pass along to you the information that
seems most appropriate. We would appreciate your reaction to this
plan. Do not hesitate to use it. We plan to continue it indefinitely,
so this will be a good way to take care of all your library needs as
well as gift items. We would likewise hope to get for you most any
book you might want, whether we advertise it or not, and of course
you can use your credit plan.
The special issue of Alexander
Campbell: the Man and His Mission by Louis
Cochran and Leroy Garrett is now available in booklet form, with a
separate cover that has a picture of the Campbell Home, and an
introduction by Perry Gresham. The price is $1.00, including postage.
A companion booklet is also still available: Alexander
Campbell and Thomas Jefferson: A Comparative Study of Two Old
Virginians, also at $1.00.
Back issues are
available of all the monthly issues of Restoration Review, which
now number 17, at ten cents each. The quarterly issues, which
preceded the monthly numbers, are available at 3 for $1.00. These are
rapidly diminishing, but we still have 10 issues of the 20 that were
published.
This fall and winter we plan to inform our readers a
little more about books that we like and to make them available
through our office. One that especially impresses us is by D. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones, preacher to Westminister Chapel in London who left the
practice of medicine to be a minister. His book Spiritual
Depression: Its Causes and Cure is a reminder
that a sad, depressed Christian is a poor recommendation for a faith
that is inspired by the resurrection of Christ. The doctor identifies
the causes of depression, gathered from his experience in psychiatry,
and charts the way for the exuberant joy that characterized the early
Christians, a joy that must be recovered by the modern church in this
age of anxiety if the battle is to be won. It is easily worth the
$3.95 it costs.
We also highly recommend the writings of William
Barclay, most of which books are not only sound and scholarly (though
non-technical), but also of moderate cost. In his Many
Witnesses, One Lord he shows how diverse the
books of the New Testament are, and yet how they form a unit. More
than this he gives many keen insights into the understanding of the
New Testament scriptures. Only $2.50.
Another of Barclay’s books now available is The
Promise of the Spirit, in which he treats
almost every passage in the New Testament scriptures that mentions
the Holy Spirit. You will appreciate especially his chapter on “The
Holy Spirit and the Church Today” in which he shows the
relevance of the Spirit to the dangerous age that is ours. $2.50.
Barclay’s 17-volume Daily
Bible Study covering all the books of the New
Testament scriptures are available at $2.50 each. If you want to get
all 17 volumes at once for only $39.50, we can arrange for you to pay
for them on a monthly basis. If you are serious in your intention to
build a fine little library for yourself and family, you should begin
with this set. The many insights these books bring you will thrill
your soul.
A helpful little volume in working with children is
Bible Dictionary for Boys and Girls with many
illustrations. $1.00.
You will enjoy seeing His Life
and Our Life, a little book of devotionals on
“The Life of Christ and the Life in Christ,” by John A.
Mackay. It will encourage you to read the author’s conviction
that no situation in life becomes impossible if God is taken into
account. You will enjoy his devotional on “The Walking Pace”
where he points out that the greatest figures of the Bible were great
walkers, and how one can benefit spiritually as well as physically by
walking. $1.50.
If you are interested in some serious reading in church
history, let us suggest you begin with Owen Chadwick’s Reformation, which at
only $5.95 gives you an extended treatment. He has a lucid style and
his points are crisp and poignant. You will like his chapter on “The
Cry for Reformation” and his treatment of Luther will inspire
you. You will find some parallels to our own struggles. History was
bunk to Henry Ford, but Ford built cars. Anyone interested in
soul-growth should read history.
In the same series is A History
of Christian Missions by Stephen Neill, which
is the story of the spread of Christianity from the beginning until
now. More than that it is an interpretation of what has happened in
Christian missions, such as the conclusion that the one thing that is
uniquely new in the
twentieth century is that we have a universal religion, and that is
Christianity. He gives revealing insights into the struggling
Christian missions of Africa and Asia and of the future they may
have. This is solid, significant reading, and it goes for over 600
pages. Consequently we have to charge you $7.50 for it. These two
volumes, along with four more to come, will comprise The Pelican
History of the Church, all prepared by top scholars of Europe and
America. You would do well to have the entire set, and we’ll be
glad to arrange monthly payments for you.
Making Ethical Decisions
is a good-looking little paperback that we are going to use in a
course in philosophy. You can have one for only $1.00. It is a
Christian examination of such everyday moral issues as: Who
wants to be Good?, Everybody does it, why shouldn’t I?, Will
Christianity work at home? How to get around the Law! The
chapter on marriage and divorce will, we predict, provoke a lot of
thought.
The two books which we want to make
our friends read are the novels by Louis
Cochran, which are available in paperback at $2.00 each. The
Fool of God is the thrilling story of
Alexander Campbell, while Raccoon John Smith
is the fabulous account of the lovable
farmer-preacher of Kentucky who was responsible for the first merger
of American churches. Both books are as rich in Americana as they are
resourceful in the history of Christian unity.
By means of a special deal with the publisher we can offer you a wonderfully good buy on The Great Texts of the Bible by James Hastings, one of the truly great expositors of the scriptures. It is a 21-volume set (seven volumes of the OT, 13 of the NT, with an index volume) that lists for $75, and it is worth it. We notice that the Baptist Book Store in Dallas gets $79.95 for the set. If you will act at once we can get this set for you at a 25% discount, or $56.25! Our plan of paying in monthly installments applies here too. This set is ideal for one who speaks to congregations, for it is an exposition of the great scriptures. For example, “My Church” is based upon Mt. 16:18, with some 15 pages of vital information on that one passage. It is highly biblical.
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