BOOK NOTES

 

Those who collect books on our heritage will want a copy of a popular reprint, Thomas W. Phillips’ The Church of Christ. For many years it was published anonymously, by simply “A layman.” The reprint is only 5.50 postpaid.

A longtime favorite of our readers is A Short History of the Early Church, which is an excellent overview of the church from its beginning to the time of Augustine, which tells about the persecutions, the heretics, the great fathers, and the great councils. 5.50 postpaid.

College Press has issued new titles that should interest our readers. What the Bible Says About the Great Tribulation by William R. Kimball, and What the Bible Says About God the Creator by Jack Cottrell. These are books that teach you the Scriptures, highly resourceful. 13.50 each, postpaid.

If you will send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Buff Scot!, Jr., 1003 Pilot Ave., Cherokee, IO 51012, he will send you a free copy of an exchange he had as to whether the “Church of Christ” is counterfeit with a minister of that church.

If you have a need to read some devotional material, we suggest The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence Also Jon Tal Murphree’s A Loving God and a Suffering World, which deals with the age-old question “Why me, God?” Each book is 4.50 postpaid.

In Search of God’s Ideal Woman by Dorothy Pape is an excellent study on the ministry and role of the Christian woman, which has a chapter on the single or divorced woman. 6.95 postpaid.

If you have not yet read C. S. Lewis, we would urge this upon you. An excellent start would be our “five-pac” offer of five of his most widely read books in handsome paperbacks for 15.00 postpaid. These are: Mere Christianity, Miracles, Problem of Pain, The Great Divorce, Screwtape Letters.

We have four bound volumes of this journal: Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977); The Ancient Order (1978); Blessed Are the Peacemakers/With All the Mind (double volume, 1979-80); Jesus Today (double volume, 1981-82). The single volumes are 5.50 each, the double volumes 8.50 each postpaid when paid in advance. These are handsomely bound with dust jackets, ideal as library copies.

New readers who would like to see what we have said in years past may order 18 back issues, selected at random by us, for only 3.00 postpaid.

You can help us reach more people with our plea of reconciliation by taking advantage of our club offer of only 3.00 per name per year, mailed by us to each individual’s address, with lists of four or more, and this may include your own sub or renewal.

We are now well into our second printing of The Stone-Campbell Movement with upwards of 4,000 copies already sold, which shows folk will read history if it is interesting. We believe you will find it interesting. Rather than borrow a copy, as so many do, why not buy your own copy to mark and keep. If 21.95 sounds high, you are to realize that it is over 700 pages in hardcover. If you send a check with your order, we’ll pay the postage, which helps some.