LET MY PEOPLE GO!

Just as I was thinking of this very title for an editorial in this journal, there arrives in the mail a handsome little volume bearing the same name. Let My People Go! is not only the cry of Moses and Aaron concerning God’s enslaved people in Egypt, but also the summons of A. V. Mansur of Galt, California in regard to his own Church of Christ people. It is a plea for liberty in Christ Jesus.

Brother Mansur is a retired rancher who is among the concerned ones. The book is the story of his pilgrimage from bondage to freedom. But it is more than this. He has collected the writings of a number of disciples, from various backgrounds, who in one way or another testify to the liberty that is in Christ. These writings were eye-openers to brother Mansur, and he believes they will be to you.

But the most exciting feature of the book is that it is the labor of a plain man who wishes to speak in plain language. One is reminded of the prophet Amos and other great men of the soil as he reads from this rancher who writes with a sense of urgency. Not only is his writing free of theological claptrap, but it exudes a freshness that is so vital to our efforts for renewal through recovery. He writes, for example: “One day I was working on a grape arbor at my home when . . .”

The writers who join brother Mansur include Harold Key, Obert Henderson, Vernon Hurst, Carl Ketcherside and Leroy Garrett. Articles by W. G. Asher on mutual ministry are perhaps the most valuable contribution to the volume, and they deal with a vastly important and neglected subject. There are also several articles on the Holy Spirit.

This colorful volume of almost 200 pages is clothbound with dust jacket, and is priced at only 2.00. You could well afford to buy several to pass along to friends. It has a message worth reading: Let my people go!