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Since you might do some of your Christmas shopping from this column, we will make a few suggestions. For the children or grandchildren we recommend the children’s edition of the Living Bible, which is very nicely done, colorful, readable, handsome cover and good paper, 7.95 in hardback and 5.95 in durable Kivar. They come in green, blue and white, green and white, red and white. Also highly regarded is Vos’s The Child’s Story Bible. This book has a 40-year success story and is touted by folk like Mrs. Billy Graham, Bill Moyers, and Norman Vincent Peale, who regards it as the best summary of the Bible in story form available anywhere. It comes wrapped in cellophane at 9.95.

For a studious adult an ideal gift would be The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible at 14.95, which is the best that money can buy, highly readable and positively dependable. I studied at Princeton under the man who wrote it. Or you might give the Eight Translation New Testament, which has all these in one, side by side: King James, Living, Phillips, RSV, Today’s, Jerusalem, New English, NIV. It provides the quick and easy comparison that good students like to make. 19.95 in hardback and 14.95 in Kivar. We also have Halley’s Bible Handbook, which has 806 pages of facts, photos, archaeological discoveries, and even brief commentary, a longtime favorite, 5.95.

A concordance makes a great gift to one who has nothing better than a few pages in the back of her Bible. You can get Cruden’s Complete Concordance in hardback for 7.95 and in paperback for only 3.50. If you want a one-volume commentary, which is really six volumes in one, then it should be Adam Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible at 14.95. A sweet little gift to almost anyone, but especially to the young marrieds, is The Honeymoon Is Over by Pat and Shirley Boone. You’ll love it as they open up their home to the world, 6.95. If someone wants a study Bible, the Nave’s Study Bible is hard to beat at 17.95. The serious NT student will greatly appreciate Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free, a definitive study by F. F. Bruce, 13.95

Some of our new subscribers might like to peruse some of our old copies. We will send 18 back copies, selected at random over the past several years, for only 3.00. Our tract, Body Ministry, is 12 for 1.00.

We still offer Campbell’s Millennial Harbinger, the two-volume set, for 14.95. Campbell’s Living Oracles, which is his translation of the NT, is 10.50.

We have restocked some titles that are popular with our readers: Daughters of the King, a startling proclamation for all women who want to be free, 2.45; The Mormon Papers, 3.45; Locked in a Room with Open Doors, 3.45; J. W. Robert’s Commentary on Revelation, 5.75. I recently asked Dr. Dave Reagan, Central Church of Christ in Irving, Texas, who has made a rather extensive study on Revelation, what book on that subject did he find most helpful. He named Merrill C. Tenney’s Interpreting Revelation. which can be yours for 5.95.

Our bound volumes still available are: Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977) 5.50; The Word Abused(1975-76) 5.95; The Restoration Mind (1971-72) 4.50; The Quest of God (1968) 3.50.

 

We welcome 196 new readers this month. Most of these have been introduced by our friends who take advantage of our club rate of five names for only 10.00, some sending longer lists. At the rate of only 2.00 per name per year in clubs of five or more we are persuaded that others of you might do this. Our most appreciative readers are often introduced to the paper in this manner. We do all the mailing from here, all year long, so you only need send us names and addresses with zip code (but don’t guess; we’ll supply the zip if you are not sure). If you want a bundle sent to you at the same rate, we shall’be pleased to do that also. We have abundant evidence that we are being read carefully, critically, and sometimes astonishingly. So, we invite you to help us to astonish a few more! We apologise for a late paper this time around. We are a small-time operation and are vulnerable to such things as the printer having a siege of illness.