Several of our readers have already taken advantage of our “Credit Plan” for purchasing books. The plan permits you to order any book that we advertise without any down payment. You will be billed for $5.00 each month if your balance is $50.00 or below, or 10% of the balance if it is above $50.00. We only ask that your balance never exceed $100.00. There are no carrying charges. You pay only the price of the book as we advertise it, plus the nominal postage. This enables our readers to build their library with an outlay of only a few dollars each month. We intend to bring your attention to the best buys in the world of religious books. Here are a few we have available, all of which may be purchased on the “Credit Plan.”

American Culture and Catholic Schools by Emmett McLoughlin at $4.95 is as informative as it is controversial. If you want to read a book that says something, you might start here. He draws the curtain on how the Roman Catholic schools are operated: how nuns and priests are recruited, the place of the Bible, how parochial schools are exempt from state control, censorship and the textbooks, how parents have no voice in the conduct of the school. He discusses the sources of Roman Catholic power in politics. It is a fair and honorable treatment of the sensitive areas of education, culture and politics.

Bible Encyclopedia for Children has hundreds of colorful pictures that illustrate the great persons and events of the Bible. It is written in language that can be handled by sixth graders, but not too elementary for children much older, or even for adults. An ideal gift for a child in the middle school years. $3.95.

Anything that C. S. Lewis (recently deceased) wrote is well worth reading —anything. Two recent publications are The Weight of Glory and Till We Have Faces, paperbacks at $1.00 and $1.95 respectively. The first one deals with the problem of pain, evil, the world, the flesh, and the Devil. The other is a symbolic tale on the meaning of love, some believing it his most masterful presentation. We are Lewis fans at our house, even including his books for children, so we’d like to introduce him to you in case you haven’t met.

New Testament Times by Merrill C. Tenney at $5.95 is one of those books that one can learn so much from: the history of the age that gave birth to Christianity, cultural tensions, religions of the time, pressures at paganism, social and political frameworks, growth and consolidation of the early church. A solid work and worth the money. Tenney is a conservative scholar who will strengthen your appreciation of the church and the New Testament scriptures.

The New Bible Commentary by Davidson is the work of 50 scholars, and it covers the entire Bible in one volume-and you’ll be surprised how much it gets said, providing one with about all he might ever ask about a book of the Bible (the introductions are splendid) or a verse of scripture (it gets right to the point). We sold one of these to a neighbor, and he has since mentioned how very informative it is. Considering it has 1200 pages the price of $7.95 is indeed reasonable. You get several books in one; yet the volume is handsome and easy to handle.

For those who are interested in the famous sets of books we are pleased to inform you that these can be had on the “Credit Plan.” Such as International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (five volumes, $35.00); Edersheims Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (two volumes, $8.50); Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary (six volumes, $30.00); The Expositor’s Greek Testament (five volumes, $25.00); Expositor’s Bible (six volumes, $30.00).

If you want a new Bible, let us supply it for you. For an ideal gift Bible for a child we suggest a Revised Standard Text Bible. They have easy-to-read print, zipper leatheroid covers, and wrapped in cellophane and boxed — a good looking gift for only $5.50 (in white for the girls at $6.00). Kids like zippers, but this same Bible without zipper is only $3.50, the best bargain we have; ideal for class work, and suitable for any age. We can put a name in gold on the cover for $1.00 extra. If you want a nice Bible for a loved one, you will have to pay $12.00 up to get the better editions. Write us what you have in mind, and we will advise.

Faith on Trial by Martyn Lloyd-Jones is a book of meditations on Psalms 73. We need to do more devotional reading, and here is a place to start. Dr. Lloyd-Jones is a physician as well as a theologian, preaches at Westminster Chapel in London. He writes about joy. $2.95.

If you are interested in gathering commentaries on Old Testament books, we suggest The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Start with Young’s The Book of Isaiah, Vol. 1, at $7.95. You can add others. We also can supply the Anchor Bible. Genesis is $6.00, Jeremiah is $7.00. These are very handsome volumes and the latest work in scholarship. The New International series is more conservative and less technical than the Anchor Bible, but the latter is first-class stuff, with a new translation.

A MATTER OF RECORD

There is now available a 33 1/3 rpm long playing record by W. Carl Ketcherside on Who Is My Christian Brother? It is a production of high quality and is attractively packaged. It is 50 minutes in length in brother Ketcherside’s own voice. The price is $4.95 plus 25 cents postage, and you may order from this office.

This new recording by a very able advocate of a broader fellowship among all disciples should be part of the answer to the question we often hear, What can I do? Since many people have a record-player, this would be a splendid way for them to hear a discourse on unity in their own homes. Simply lend them the record, explaining that you think it might mean as much to them as it has to you. Or invite a group into your home for a coke and a cookie, play the record, and invite discussion. It would be ideal for young people’s gatherings.
 

Sir Oliver Lodge expressed the wish that we might have truce of fifty years in scientific discover, in order to give man a last chance to raise his moral standard to the stature of these terrific discoveries and energies. — Leslie Weatherhead

 

Those in the Dallas area are invited to a series of studies on “Problems of the Christian” presented by Leroy Garrett at Wynnewood Chapel, 2303 S. Tyler, Dallas. Sessions each Wednesday at 7:30 through Nov. 24. Topics include Problem of Living With Self, Problem of Living With Others, Problem of Living in a Secular World, Problem of Suffering, Problem of Old Age and Death.

 

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