BOOK NOTES

 

The Fool of God by Louis Cochran is back in print in handsome hardback and we will send you a copy for 12.50 postpaid. This is a historical novel on the life of Alexander Campbell. The author, now deceased, was a friend of mine, and he told me that everything in the book can be documented as factual. It is a delightful way to become acquainted with Campbell and those about him.

Other important titles about our heritage are available from our office: Memoirs of Alexander Campbell (21.95), Campbell-Rice Debate (19.95), Elder John Smith (13.50), Elder Ben Franklin (15.95). Prices include postage.

For general American church history you will delight in the two-volume set by Edwin S. Gaustad entitled A Documentary History of Religion in America, which takes you from the Puritans to the Mormons, from the Salem witch trials to the war over abortion with lots of pictures, including Alexander Campbell (and a selection from Barton Stone), though it gives the wrong name to Campbell’s wife pictured with him, the first wife’s name for the second. This set is a veritable gold mine of information and you can start reading anywhere. The set, 34.00, nearly 1200 pages.

Many of our people are students of William Barclay’s Daily Bible Study, an 18-volume commentary covering all the New Testament. We can supply these at 6.95 per volume in soft cover or 115.00 for the set. You can now get the Daily Bible Study on the Old Testament as they are published, with fifteen now available. You might start with The Twelve Prophets (Vol. I) and Isaiah (Vol. I) and add to your set in time. These are 6.95 each, postpaid. I am confident that once you start you will want all these books.

A fair and impressive treatment of our national problems is John Whitehead’s The Stealing of America. He asks whether our nation is being stolen by radical liberals and secular humanists right out from under our noses. He deals with the devaluation of human life and traditional values, the family, education, the courts, and the church. You would do well to read this man. 7.50 postpaid.

Our newer subscribers may want to know what we’ve said in years past, this being our 33rd year of publication, though this includes all our readers. We will send you a random selection of 18 back issues, some as old as the 1960’s for only 3.00. But we mail these only once a month, along with our regular mailing.

The Doe of the Dawn, the bound volume of this journal for 1983-84, will be mailed to you sometime this summer, with invoice enclosed, if you have sent us your order. The price will be less than 10.00. Previous bound volumes still available from our office: Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977) and The Ancient Order (1978), arc 5.95 each. Blessed Are the Peacemakers/With All the Mind (1979-80) and Jesus Today (1981-82) are 9.00 each. They are hardbound, matching volumes with dust-jackets and beautifully bound.

Since so many take advantage or the offer, we continue to offer Leroy Garrett’s The Stone-Campbell Movement:/An Anecdotal History of Three Churches as a bonus when you send us eight subscriptions, new or renewal (24.00 total). Or you may order this much-discussed, much-reviewed, much abused history of our churches for 21.95, postpaid, from us. Restoration Review, 1201 Windsor Dr., Denton, Texas 76201