OFFICE NOTES

 

Our new subscription rate is 3.00 per year or 5.00 for two years. In one place in our last we gave the rate of 5.00 for three years. This was a mistake. We are pleased with the large number of renewals that we receive. When your sub expires, you are notified by a hand stamp to that effect on both the front and back of your last issue. You need not worry about your sub expiring until that stamp appears. It will help us both, if you then renew promptly. We often send still one more bonus issue with the warning that you must renew, but we do not promise to do this since it depends on our flow of extra copies. If you have the urge to renew, stamp or no stamp, do not hesitate to do so, for we will advance your date of expiration accordingly. We do make mistakes as careful as we are, so if we expire you before your time is up, and you know it, then drop us a card. We will both repent and correct the mistake: That's what Alexander Campbell insisted that repentance is, reformation. One can't simply be sorry, he taught, but must make amends for the wrongs done and reform his life. That's what we will do if we foul up your sub.

 

We have sold a number of copies of Sex For Christians. You might want to have a copy at 3.20. Part of the book is on sex and married people, another part of sex and single people. It is solidly biblical and unprudish.

 

Love Therapy, written by a family counselor, is another volume well received by our readers. It draws upon the Bible as a medicine chest for spiritual and emotional ills. It offers practical ways and means of fighting depression and discouragement, and it helps one to understand what ails him. 3.20.

 

You should read at least one title from Francis Schaeffer, and we suggest He Is There and He is Not Silent. 3.20 in paperback. His comments on "faith" vs. faith is a great lesson and beautifully illustrated, drawn from mountain climbing in the Alps.

 

We all know of those tragic instances when a believer is tempted by love and drawn away by another man or woman, thus destroying a marriage and a family. Tempted by Love, written by a woman, speaks to this problem not simply by exposing adultery as the sin that it is but by showing that there is a way of escape. It shows the way out of an illicit relationship. One editor commented that this book is "a breath of fresh air in a book market glutted with advice on how to attract a lover." He strongly urges one to follow the self-therapy suggested in this book if he or she needs it. It is only 64 pages in paperback. 1.95.

 

For 2.20 we will reserve you a copy of The Ten Commandments for Today by William Barclay, which will be out sometime in March. We will put in the mail to you the day it is published, if you will get your order to us. He has a chapter on each command, giving its biblical setting and showing its relevance for today. On the first commandment he says, for example: "It is from here that ethics takes its start. A man's god dictates a man's conduct." This book will be in great demand.

 

Also coming up in March is a paperback edition of Barclay's Spiritual Autobiography, which is a warm and personable account of a most interesting and inspiring life. After laughing and weeping our way through the hardbound edition, we highly recommend this at only 1.75.

 

Several times we have advertised The Difficult Sayings of Jesus at 4.95, and it is a highly informative volume. In March it is coming out in paperback at 1.75. You should not miss this one.

 

Sharon Burgard of Aspen, Colorado, received one of our Six Version Parallel New Testament for Christmas. She likes it so well that she ordered one for a friend. You might like to have one at least for yourself. It is beautiful bound in durable hardcover at 12.95.

 

If you think you have a bit of the rebel in you, you should read Rebels in the Church, written by several modern rebels. The chapter on "Inside View of a Rebel" might mirror something of yourself. This retails at 3.95, but we're selling them for 2.95 in hardback.

 

Last year we told you of Isaac Errett's Evenings with the Bible, a 3‑volume set that has not yet gone up and sells for only 12.00 in durable hardback, which is really a bargain since they total about 1200 pages of reading. Errett was one of our pioneers who traveled with Campbell and served as his associate editor, and finally founded the Christian Standard. He coined the term, "The Plea," long current in our history and he spells out that Plea better than most. This is a journey through the Bible, Old and New alike. Chapters on "God with Us," "The Magi," and "Weak Faith and Strong Faith" are but a few on the New. Two volumes in the Old move from Adam to the Captivity, with numerous chapters that pull together God's "Eternal Purpose," which he sees as the theme of the Bible. We highly recommend this set, and it may not long be available. It makes for ideal family reading.