BOOK NOTES

 

We have a new shipment of William Barclay's The Plain Man's Book of Prayers and More Prayers for the Plain Man, matching volumes and they are delightfully inspiring. They teach you how to pray, with Barclay giving advice on that subject as a preface to each of the books. We order them from Scotland, and they are available at $5.00 each or both for $9.50, including the postage.

In order to get this journal into the hands of more people we will continue to offer a free gratis copy of The Stone-Campbell Movement by Leroy Garrett to anyone who will send us 8 subs (new or renewal, including your own), at $3.00 per name, a total of $24.00. Otherwise the book is $21.95, which is bargain enough for a 700-page study of our heritage. A new printing is off the press, which places the total over 10,000 copies, which is not bad for a history book.

Speaking of books on our heritage, a new one is due off the press, Endangered Heritage, which I read with delight before it went to the printer. Super! Part of its significance is that is comes from an unknown (though Ouida and I have long known him) and from one who all these years has sat quietly in the pew, both observing and doing research. If you are a member of the Church of Christ or any part of the Campbell heritage, this book will shake you up. The author is an engineer, a member of the Highland Oaks Church of Christ in Dallas, and a diligent student of our heritage, named Walt Yancy. $12.95 postpaid, May delivery.

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THE ONE-AIM RULE OF INTERPRETATION

The wisdom of God is as evident in adapting the light of the Sun of Righteousness to our spiritual or moral vision, as in adjusting the light of day to our eyes. The light reaches us without effort of our own, but we must open our eyes, and if our eyes be sound, we enjoy the natural light of heaven. There is a sound eye in reference to spiritual light, as well as in reference to material light.

The moral soundness of vision consists in having the eyes of the understanding fixed solely on God himself, his approbation and complacent affection for us. It is sometimes called a single eye because it looks for one thing supremely. Every one, then, who opens the Book of God, with one aim, with the ardent desire - intent only to know the will of God - to such a person the knowledge of God is easy. -Alexander Campbell in The Christian System

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You believe that the great fundamental law of unity and love ought not to be violated to make way for exalting human opinions to an equality with express revelation, by making them articles of faith and terms of communion; so do we. -Thomas Campbell in Declaration and Address