CONGO: PAST AND PRESENT, by Alfred R. Stonelake. Illustrated.
London: World Dominion Press, Founder’s Lodge, Mildmay
Park, N.1. Cloth, 5/-; paper covers, 3s. 6d.
This is one of the excellent Survey series issued by the World Dominion Press. Mr. Stonelake in the volume before us has given a very interesting account of missionary progress and problems in Congo. Those who delight in statistics will find the volume full of information. With every desire to be fair and charitable, Mr. Stonelake cannot shut his eyes to the favoured treatment the Roman Catholic Church is receiving from the Belgian Government. It would appear also that added to this subsidising of the Roman Catholic Missions, the Pope is dipping into the £17,000,000 which the Vatican received by the Lateran Treaty. One is impressed with the extraordinary number of different Protestant missionary agencies that are operating in that part of the world. The different missionary bodies have a General Conference at which questions affecting the Protestant mission cause are discussed and decisions come to in the interests of the common cause. The educational and medical work of the missions is referred to as well as the religious. Among the Appendices may be particularly mentioned “Scripture Translations in Belgian Congo,” by the Rev. R. Kilgour, D.D. In reading this volume, one feels were it nothing but the freedom that has come to women and girls where the gospel has been received that the missionaries’ labours have not been in vain.
JAMES KIDWELL POPHAM: A brief Biography and Addresses delivered in connection with the Sovereign Grace Union.
London: Sovereign Grace Union, 31 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C.4. Cloth, 1s. 6d.; Paper, 1s.
Many will be pleased to have these Addresses by the gracious pastor who passed to his everlasting rest at a patriarchal age some months ago. Mr. Popham was a rich experimental preacher who fed the flock of God. And though differing from us on certain points he entertained a warm regard to many of our ministers and people whose friendship he highly valued.
THE BEST BOOK OF ALL: AND HOW IT CAME TO US BY Rev. F.
J. HAMILTON, D.D. London: Protestant Truth Society, 31
Cannon Street, E.C.4. Price 7d. post free.
This is a reprint of Dr. Hamilton’s interesting and instructive booklet on the translation of the Bible. Reference is made to begin with to the Hebrew and Greek MSS. of the Bible. The main part, however, is taken up with the various translations such as Wycliffe’s, Tyndale’s Coverdale’s, The Great Bible, The Bishop’s Bible, The Douai, The Authorised Version, etc. Dr. Hamilton has packed a great deal of information into a narrow compass and all who wish to get an account of the translators and their work will find this booklet very helpful. Codex Sinaiticus is, of course, no longer in Leningrad as stated at p. 47 but in the British Museum. It is the MSS. for which the British Government, under Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s premiership, paid £100,000.