In All Their Affliction
by Murdoch Campbell, Gospel Standard Publications, 159pp, £2.95. This book is a reprint of a paperback issued a number of years ago and is by the late Rev. Murdoch Campbell, Resolis. It is a book well fitted to minister comfort and encouragement to the tried and afflicted people of God, as its title would suggest. Mr Campbell was very gifted in this line, no doubt through personal experience, and his own experimental acquaintance with the Lord’s dealings with His people enabled him to be a Barnabas — a son of consolation. The truth of God’s Word confirms this: “Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.” Here then in this reprint the children of God may derive help and comfort by being led to the Fountainhead — to Christ Himself, and to God in Him who is the source of all comfort. We are glad to commend this volume to readers of the Magazine.
D. B. M.
Five Pioneer Missionaries
Banner of Truth Trust Paperback, 345pp, £3.95. This is a reprint of a paperback issued first in 1965. It consists of prize essays on five noted Missionaries, David Brainard, Wm. C. Burns, John Eliot, Henry Martyn and John G. Paton. The lives of these men who all served the Lord in the ministry of the Gospel and in particular on the Mission Field are interestingly told by the five writers of these essays. Being essays the writers were necessarily confined to an outline of the lives of the men about whom they wrote, along with a selection of particular incidents which bring out the daunting task which faced each of them in the different parts of the world or areas to which the Lord had directed them. While not as satisfactory as a full life of each of these missionaries, yet this paperback gives a suitable introduction to these longer and more detailed accounts, and we are glad to recommend it in this way.
D. B. M.