The Inheritance of our Fathers.—The Inheritance Publishing Co. P.O. Box 334, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price 5c (3d) each. 28 copies \$1.00 (5/-).
Our friends in Grand Rapids are still able to continue their praise-worthy efforts, amidst war’s alarms, to spread the truth. The latest issue of their splendid series of booklets is entitled “The Sin and Folly of Procrastination,” by Rev. Jonathan Edwards and is on the text:—”Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth (Provs. xxvii. 1). The publication of these booklets is not undertaken for profit but for the dissemination of the truth as it is expounded in the works of such men as Durham, E. Erskine, R. Erskine, Gurnall, Boston, Bunyan, Romaine, Scott, MacCheyne, Philpot, etc.
“Let my People go.”—Victor Gollanz, Ltd., 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.2. Price 3d.
Our readers will recognize in the words which form the title of the above pamphlet those of the Lord to Pharaoh delivered through Moses and Aaron. In the iron furnace, worse than the bondage of Egypt through which the Jews are passing in Europe no deliverance as yet appears within sight. The harrowing details which have been made public and of which we have a dreadful catalogue in this pamphlet have deeply moved the Allied Nations but as yet they seem helpless to do anything but extend sympathy. The cold blooded massacres, in some cases under revolting circumstances, as narrated here fills one with a feeling of horror that human beings should perpetrate such cruelty on their fellows. The day of their deliverance we hope, is not far distant but that cannot bring to life the children, women and men, starved to death or perishing in cold, or massacred in cold blood. Those who would like to know something of what suffering the Jews in Europe are and the Satanic action of their persecutors is should read this pamphlet.
Sabbath Observance—Hatless Women in the Assemblies.—Gospel Magazine Office, 69 Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. 4d post free.
This pamphlet is a reprint of two articles from the Gospel Magazine by its Editor, Rev. Thomas Houghton. He begins his article on the Sabbath by quoting from the Thirty Nine Articles:—“No Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral”—and the Confession of Faith:—“The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof.” Mr. Houghton is not like so many who take away with one hand what they have given with the other. It is no limping defence he offers in the defence of the Lord’s Day basing his defence on the Fourth Commandment as we must do if our witness for the observance of God’s Day is to be fortified by divine authority. He sounds a warning note against multiplying “works of necessity and mercy” to such an extent as to make void the Word of God. The running of trains, buses, and trams on the Lord’s Day as also the use of the wireless on the Sabbath Day, political speeches, the “Sunday” newspaper, he condemns as Sabbath desecration of God’s Holy Day and he warns Christians to set their faces against these desecrations.
In the reprint of the other article—“Hatless Women in the Assemblies”—he condemns the statement issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in which permission is granted to women and girls to enter churches (i.e. Anglican) uncovered. Mr. Houghton quotes I. Cor. xi. 4, 5, in condemnation of this episcopal permission. In the pamphlet he touches on and condemns the omission of “obey” in the marriage service, the custom so common now of women wearing men’s clothes, women smoking and the filthy and silly lipstick and nail painting craze. Seven million pounds, it is computed are spent on cosmetics by women annually in this country. We heartily commend the reprint of these articles to the readers of our Magazine and hope that if any of them are guilty in indulging in the practices condemned they will give heed to their ways and suffer the word of exhortation and carry it into effect.