MISSIONARY ROMANCE IN MOROCCO by James Haldane.
Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, Bothwell Street. Price, 2/6.
This book gives a vivid picture of the tremendous difficulties facing the Christian missionary in Morocco. The stolid fatalism of the Islamic faith is like a granite wall which looks like that it will never be broken down. Still, the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth: otherwise, the hopelessness of the task facing the missionary might well beget in him a feeling of despair of ever seeing the Moslem world with its 250 millions turned to Christ. Mr. Haldane is conscious enough of the tremendous difficulties but he sets his heart to the work in the hope that the Lord will move hearts that are hard as adamant. There are two or three expressions that indicate Mr. Haldane’s theological position unless we are mistaken. His references to God’s love are not sufficiently discriminating and some of his words indicate that he makes no difference between God’s love to His people and His benevolence to mankind in general.
WHY 854 PRIESTS LEFT THE CHURCH OF ROME by Albert Close.
London: Protestant Truth Society, 31 Cannon Street, E.C.4.
Price, 2/10 (post free).
The Protestant Truth Society is doing good service by publishing this volume which gives in the compass of some 320 pages a review of the hundreds of former priests of the Roman Church who have quitted that communion and have become Ministers of the Church of England and other evangelical churches all over the world. Some eighteen months ago a first volume was published entitled “662 Priests leave the Church of Rome.” The new volume is a complete revision and with double the number of pages in which the reasons for abandonment of Rome are given more fully, whilst there is a section reviewing the extraordinary work of Mr. James O’Connor of New York and his great work amongst former Roman Catholics at Christ’s Mission. The Church of Rome is not slow to proclaim on the house-tops those who join her ranks from Protestant communions but this volume affords extraordinary evidence of the leakage the other way. It is a veritable armoury for all evangelical workers and the circulation of this volume will be heartening indeed. The painstaking research work of Mr. Albert Close deserves warm commendation.
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH: THE MARTYRS OF EAST ANGLIA by Philip H. Rand.
London: The Protestant Truth Society, 31 Cannon Street, London, E.C.4. Price 7d. (post free).
This is one of the Protestant Society’s Sixpenny Library Series. It gives short accounts of the Protestant witnesses of East Anglia who sealed their testimony with their blood. It is well we should be reminded of what it cost these noble witnesses to win the religious liberty we enjoy.
JESUIT PLOTS FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH TO KING GEORGE V. by Albert Close.
London: Protestant Truth Society, 31 Cannon Street, London, E.C.4. Price 2/9 (post free).
This is a book of astonishing revelations about the past, and present intrigues of the Jesuits in Great Britain, and the Empire. Mr. Close discloses that the great offices of State, and particularly the Foreign Office are honeycombed with Roman Catholics and as permanent officials that they have dangerous opportunities to cause, and make changes which may prove disastrous to our Protestant Constitution unless they are exposed, and checked in time. The book also discloses the fact that the Daily Press of the nation, with few exceptions are under the influence of Roman Catholics. We are of the opinion that all true Protestants, Ministers, office-bearers, lay-preachers, heads of families, and school teachers, should secure a copy of this book, and acquaint themselves and others under their care and charge of our national dangers.—James Macleod.
THAT BETTER PART: THE EARLY EXPERIENCE, DIARY, AND LETTERS OF MARY TANNER.
London: Sovereign Grace Union, 31 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C.4. Price 2/- (paper covers); 2/6 (cloth) post free.
This little book contains a brief introductory memoir of this gracious lady, the wife of Pastor Joseph Tanner, Cirencester. She was one of the trophies of God’s free grace, taken from a worldly home of affluence in which horse-racing and its frivolities were indulged in. The means by which the change took place that made her turn her back forever on the gaieties of the world and cast in her lot with the people of God is not recorded in her diary but the experiences therein recorded and the letters accompanying this record show how thorough the change was. Like all the Lord’s people she had her trials, spiritual and otherwise. Her earnest cry to be delivered from her sin and made more and more conformable to the image of her Redeemer will encourage those passing through a like experience who instead of feeling themselves holier are realising more and more the abominations of their heart. Those who delight in gleaning in the fields which God has blessed to others will find in this book much to encourage them while the spirituality and heavenly mindedness of Mrs. Tanner should exercise a humbling effect owing to their own lack of those Christian graces which made her heart burn with such ardent love to her Saviour. The diary and letters are edited by a grand-daughter, Miss M. H. Wakeley, 37 Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton, who has done her work well, and who will, no doubt, receive the thanks of not a few for her labour of love. The book has a brief recommendatory foreword by Mr. J. K. Popham in which he says he esteems it an honour to write the foreword.