BOOK NOTES

 

Teeth On Edge by our own Bob Fife, professor at Milligan College, is a tremendous little volume that is surely the buy of the year for only 1.95. The title comes from the prophetic cry that “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge,” and Bob has done well in describing how sour the grapes were in interracial relations even in the churches. Going back into old church records before the Civil War, he traces attitudes of church leaders toward blacks, and shows how after the emancipation black congregations began to emerge. He shows how liberty for the black man was also freedom for the slave-owner, and he argues convincingly that racism is a problem of the heart rather than merely social or economic. This book will be your teacher for good. You’ll be better for having read it, that’s for sure.

We will send you Ketcherside’s latest bound volume of Mission Messenger for 3.00, entitled “One Great Chapter.” Better still we will send you five of his bound volumes for 15.00 and you can make three 5.00 payments over next three months.

All books referred to in this column can be purchased through our office: 1201 Windsor Dr., Denton, Tx. 76201.