Again we remind our readers of the Credit Plan available to them. You can order any or all books we mention in this column, including the more expensive sets of books, and pay for them, without carrying charges, at the rate of 10% per month or $5.00 per month, whichever is the higher figure. For example, if your balance is $80.00, then on the first of the month you will be billed for $8.00; if the balance is $16.00, you will be billed for $5.00. We any ask that the balance never exceed $100.00. This plan enables our readers to build a substantial library at a consistent pace, with small monthly payments and at no extra expense.

Several of our readers have ordered The Great Texts of the Bible at the highly improbable price of only $56.25, the usual price is around $80.00. This is because of a special deal from the publisher. The time limit has been extended, so you can still get in on it. This is the famous set of 21 volumes covering the entire Bible. It is a beautiful set of books that are highly useful for Bible study. The material is non-technical, highly readable, and rich in background references.

The one-volume commentary covering the entire Bible, entitled The New Bible Commentary, deserves commendation. We can make it available to you at $7.95, a good price for a book of 1200 pages, beautifully done. It has fifty authors from a half dozen nations, and it has splendid introductions to each book of the Bible, with comments on most any passage that might trouble you. It is truly amazing that anyone volume could have so much viral material within its covers.

A companion volume to the commentary is The New Bible Dictionary, which is equally good looking and even larger, containing 1400 pages, plus 17 colored maps. It is a splendid dictionary, having the endorsement of none other than Prof. Albright of Johns Hopkins, the famous archaeologist, who says: “This is the best one-volume dictionary in English. There are 2,300 articles and 237 special drawings, not counting the maps. Though thorough, it is readable and clear. For instance, if you look up the term “Law”, you will find nearly six large pages on this subject, covering not only both Testaments, but ancient codes as well. It is a new publication with everything up-to-date (three pages describe the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls). $12.95

We can now supply in paperback at only $2.95 James DeForest Murch’s history of the Restoration Movement, entitled Christians Only. It starts at the beginning and comes right on up to “Modern Disciples and Christian Unity.” It is so thorough and up-to-date that it refers (and sometimes quotes from) Restoration Review and Mission Messenger and their editors. If you have even moderate interest in the Restoration Plea, you will want this book.

Also available in paperback are two other important books on Restoration studies. The Fool of God, by Louis Cochran, is the life story of Alexander Campbell, and Raccoon John Smith, also by Cochran, are only $1.95 each. Once you start reading either of these exciting novels, you will find it hard to stop.

Our people are negligent in reading devotional literature, such as meditations, poetry, and prayers. We suggest you give a few minutes a day to this kind of literature. Five Minutes A Day, by Robert E. Speer, draws upon the Bible, the poets, and the saints. You will be edified. An ideal little gift too. Only $1.75. A similar work is The Plain Man Looks at the Beatitudes, by William Barclay, for only $1.00. This comes directly from Scotland.

Also by Barclay is The All-Sufficient Christ, which is a study in Colossians. $1.45. The Daily Bible Study by Barclay covers the entire New Testament, and all who use this 17- volume set praise it. They are $2.50 each or $39.50 for the complete set in hardbound edition.

If you are looking for a gift for a youth, we suggest a Bible with a zipper leatheroid cover, easy-to-read, wrapped in cellophane and boxed --- a smart gift for only $5.50. We’ll take it back if you don’t like it. Also a thoughtful gift to one who likes to have different versions of the New Testament is The New Testament in Plain English by Charles Williams, now in paperback at only $2.45. You will appreciate the freshness of the translation. Rom. 8:1 for instance: “There is now, therefore, no sentence of ‘Guilty’ for those that are in Christ Jesus.”

If you would like to dip into Philosophy a bit, and yet stay well within Christian tradition (and wade a little in existentialism!), we suggest The Burden of Soren Kierkegaard by Edward Carnell at $3.50.

Do you like novels? Charles Williams was one of the finest Christian writers of England. His novels are breathtaking in excitement, and they are designed to show how man’s soul can and does deteriorate in our kind of world, as well as the triumph of the soul’s salvation. In inexpensive paperbacks the Williams’ novels are available again: The Place of the Lion, Shadows of Ecstasy, and Many Dimensions. They are $1.95 each.

The Threshold of Christianity is a little volume that tells the story of what happened between in the period between the Testaments. $1.50. The Anatomy of Anti-Semitism argues that the deepest cleavage between men is racial, especially between Jew and Gentile. There are other essays in the little volume, including one on The New Morality, which criticizes Robinson’s Honest to God. The author says: “The garment of U. S. morals is not sagging at the hemline; it is coming apart at the seams.” $1.45.

Back issues of Restoration Review are available at ten cents each. All 19 of the monthly issues can be had; the quarterly numbers (up to 1963) are 3 for $1.00, with some 10 numbers available.

 

Take a good look at artist Lydic’s conception of “The Elijah Blues” on our front cover. Do you sometime feel that there is no use trying, that nothing can be done about the situation anyhow? Let us assure you that there are many with the same hopes for a Spirit-filled, unity-conscious brotherhood. But we must all do more than we are doing, and one thing that is possible for all of us is to double the circulation of this journal, which is an outlet for the free expressions of some of our most talented and promising scholars, men who are concerned over the lack of dialogue in our terribly divided brotherhood. Your help means more than you think! This journal cannot expect help from institutional or clerical circles. Its support must come from the concerned ones within the rank and file of all persuasions of the Restoration Movement. Our subscription plan is well within the reach of all who have the will to help. You can send the paper to six people for only $3.00 a year. Single subs $1.00 a year. Or we’ll mail you a bundle at ten cents per copy, and you can distribute them as you will. RESTORATION REVIEW, 1201 Windsor Dr., Denton, Texas 76201.