OFFICE NOTES

 

Raccoon John Smith, by Louis Cochran, is the story of that great Kentucky pioneer-evangelist. Excellent for bicentennial-restoration reading. This book is out of print and is in demand from some quarters. I have obtained a box of them from the author’s widow, the delightful Bess Cochran, who joined her husband in his research and writing. These are books that she had laid back, and she advises that we sell them for 10.00 and for the money to go to the publication of this journal. They are easily worth that as a collector’s item, but we are going to let them go on a first come-first served basis for only 5.95. We’ve had calls for this book when it was unavailable, but we did not file these requests. We hope such ones will see this notice and order at once.

Recently reprinted is Louis Cochran’s book on Alexander Campbell, The Fool of God, available at 3.50. Ouida and I have read this book to each other twice and you and yours are making a mistake if you do not read it at least once.

For 2.95 we will send you Carl Ketcherside’s The Death of The Custodian, a study of law and grace as revealed in Galatians. His Heaven Help Us, a treatise on what the Spirit does for the believer, is the same price. These are top rate.

There is no way to overemphasize the value of John Stott’s Christ the Controversialist. You’ll come to understand the real conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees as never before. For a 214-page book it is a steal at 2.50.

We have a few copies of The New International Version (New Testament), the new translation by “conservative” scholars for 4.95, which is 1.00 off the retail price. These are wrapped in cellophane, crisp and new.

Do a favor to a dating couple, or young marrieds, by handing them a copy of Jim Reynold’s Secrets of Eden: God and Human Sexuality. You would do well to read it yourself before passing it on! He has a chapter on Divorce and Divorcees. Only 2.45.

John Allen Chalk (once on Herald of Truth) and Ron Durham (now editor of Mission), along with others, have essays on demons and the occult, entitled The Devil, You Say? Ron has some historical notes on “Tracking the Serpent” that will fill you in on what Satan has been up to. Chapters on astrology, angels, and satanism are informative. Only 2.95.

William Barclay’s 17-volume Daily Bible Study, commentaries covering the entire New Testament, is being revised and issued in new binding in both soft and hard cover, and we will be handling it. Ten of them are now ready, 3.45 each in the soft cover, 6.25 each in the hardbound. If you choose the hardbound, you can get all six on the gospels for 35.75. If you are not acquainted with these, we highly recommend them as among the best stuff you can read anywhere. I’ve put hours upon hours of these on tape for Ouida’s mother, who can no longer read as she once could, and she listens to them over and over, and reports that she is always richly edified. You can order one, two, or three at a time, if you like. Ready so far are the four gospels and all of Paul’s epistles except Gal-Eph. Five more volumes will be ready in May.

All these books are available from us at 1201 Windsor Dr., Denton, Tx. 76201. We pay the postage if you send a check with your order.

Ouida says that she will henceforth drop all names from our mailing list who move without sending a change of address (include your old address). If the post office has to tell us that you have moved, she concludes that you could not have much interest in the paper. Too, she urges you to renew without delay if you wish to continue with us, for she must soon discard your plate and use the frame that holds it for someone else. It is a fast moving world, you know. Especially hers!

Let me urge you to “Read Restoration in 76”. Nothing is more edifying than biography. Start with the biography of John T. Johnson (whose brother served as a vice-president), a congressman turned pioneer preacher under Campbell’s influence. 4.50 in hardback. For only 2.65 we will send you They Heard Him Gladly, the story of another pioneer preacher, Benjamin Franklin. You’ll learn our history best by studying the lives of those who made it.

You may do more good than you realize by sharing this journal with others like yourself. Many of our most appreciative readers were introduced to us by someone like you, who was thoughtful enough to share. We make it economically feasible for you to do this. Send us five or more names at 1.00 each and we will send them the paper for an entire year. Nearly all of you know others who would be challenged by what we have to say. “You are our epistles” in this regard, for we have only our readers as witnesses to the value of our ministry. Please consider this prayerfully. Send subs to 1201 Windsor Dr., Denton, Texas 76201.