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4 THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY September 20, 1911. high order in the way of spiritual sug gestion. It will do any one good to read one of them at the close of a busy day, before retiring. Several volumes of Mr. Ainsworth’s sermons have already been published, and have had a wide accei> tanee. Among these are The Heart of Happiness, Talks About the Beatitudes, and The Pilgrim Church. Of the latter Sir Robertson Nicoll says: Every page and almost every sentence is striking. This is a book which must ine\itably find its way into the hands of every preacher worthy of the name and multitudes who are not preachers will find in it tlie lielp they need. (Fleming H. Kevell (\impany). My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the title of a little book by J. Frank Hanley. This is another book inspired by the tercentenary of the translation of the King James Version of the Bible. The subs'tance of the book was given as a lecture. The author says that for ten years he has had in mind the prepara tion of a lecture concerning Jesus Christ. In that time he has read many books and has looked in every direction for sugges tions concerning the Master, and has gi\- en in this brief epitome all that he has read or heard, and also his own best thoughts coneerning the subject. The book is a strong presentation of belief in the Deity of Jesus Christ. (Bobbs- Merrill Company.) thee and beside thee.” Both these rules are important. It may be said in the way of further explanation of the pur pose of this volume that it treats of such subjects as the collection of New Testa ment writing's into a canon, the arrange ment of New Testament writings, liter ary source of the New Testament, struc ture and composition of the New Testa ment, the circulation of the New Testa ment writings, etc. One section is given to the correspondence of Paul with dif ferent churches, another to the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, another to the pastoral Epistles, another to the ap ocalypse of John. The book represents a vast amount of labor and will furnish guidance for students which will take them hack to the beginnings of New Tes tament literature. (Charles Scribner s Sons.) Try Our Ilana-Silk-Mattress. A LIGHT WEIGHT RESILENT MATTRESS A CHILD CAN TURN. UNDER THE STRONGEST KIND OF A GUARANTEE. SOLD The Heart of the Master, by William Burnet Wright, I). D., is an interesting volume, which is briefly described as a fres)' interpretation of the events of Pas sion Week, original in thought and force ful in expression. In this book, effort is made to throw fresh light upon the his toric Christ. Not a few of our Lord’s words and deeds, the author thinks, are now taken in a sense which contradicts the whole tenor of His precepts and ex ample. These interpretations have puz zled believers, amed skeptics, and ob scured for all His spiritual splendor. The book is issued with the hope that it will help to throw light upon some of these difficult teachings, and thus correct what are regarded as misleading interpreta tions. The book is stimulating, the treat ment fresh, independent and vital. It makes the whole wonderful story of Pas sion Week vivid and vital. (Houghton Mifflin Company). A good many books have been publish ed in recent times in the line of lit erary criticism of the New Testament. There are still unsettled problems and the controversies are in some cases keen, although the spirit in which these contro versies are conducted is better and kind lier than it was some time since. In the course of the International Theological Library An Introduction to the Litera ture of the New Testament, by James Moffatt, D. D has just been issued. This manual is designed primarily for the use of students, and therefore is not a book which will commend itself for popular reading. But in its place it is very thor ough and suggestive. It represents a vast amount of work. The author suggests to the student “two commandments of re search.” First, “Thou shalt work at the sources,” and. second, “Thou shalt. ac quaint thyself with work done before BURTNER FURNITURE COMPANY, GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA. People’s House Furnishing Company. HIGH POINT, N. C. Wholesale and Retail House Pumishers and Jobbers. MANTLES, GRATES, TILE, A SPECIALTY It is wonderful how the study of the New Testament takes up every minute point, enlisting the attention of the great est scholars of the worid. Biblical Geog raphy and History, by Charles Foster Kent. Ph. 1)., is the latest of Dr. Kent’s books. This volume gives in compact, clear and attractive form the significant facts which any well educated teacher or student should know and understand to appreciate Biblical history and literature. Some people are disposed to slight geog raphy and history in their study of the Bible. But more and more it is felt that there is nothing whatever that belongs to Bible lands and Bible history that is un important. In the first part of this book we have a clear, definite picture of the physical characteristics of Biblical coun tries. especially of Palestine. A chapter is devoted to the great highways that bound together the different parts of the ancient world and determined the direc tion of contiuest and commerce and the spread of culture and religion. The sec ond part deals with the chief characters, movements of Biblical history and their chronological order and geographical set ting, and shows the influence of their physical environment upon them. The book contains a large number of carefully prepared maps, including the results of modern discovery and research. These add very much to the value of the vol ume. (Charles Scribner’s Sons.) THE STANDARD OF LIVING AMONG THE INDUSTRIAL PEOPLE OF AMERICA. Mr. Streightoif’s essay on the standard of living will evoke keen interest among students of industrial conditions and housing problems in this country. The study represents a critical analysis of all the recent statistics of incomes of the la boring classes, unemployment, working men’s budgets and the like, published by the national and state labor bureaus, and as a result of private investigations. To the average man the mere mass of data which has been gotten together upon these subjects is a sufficient discouragement to an attempt to digest, or even to read, it all, and to Mr. Streightoff the layman must feel peculiarly obligated for having collated and analyzed the significant facts concerning the more important phases of industrial life in this country, looked at from the point of view of the working man and his standard of living. Some facts of very far-reaching import- FREEMAN DRUG SOMPANY. Burlington. North Ca.rolina, Are the leaders in Drugs, Chem cals and Toilet Articles. CAREFUL ATTENTION TO MAIL ORDERS. ELON COLLEGE (Co-educational). Situated in the delifc'htful hill country of North Carolina. 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This is a feature of our in dustrial system which -we have been rath er prone to overlook, but the figures show ing the 22 per cent, of all the male wage earners of the country were unemployed for an average of over thirteen weeks during a single year must give us pause. So far from being more fortunate than our European neighbors in this respect, we suffer rather more than they from the evil of unemployment, and have so far taken no adequate steps—none at all comparable with those of Prussia and England—to check this seemingly necess ary accompaniment of the modem com petitive regime. Real wages and the influence of UHem- ployment are the factors emphasized by Mr. Streightoff—these being the funda mental conditions of all other phases of industrial life. There are interesting chapters upon expenditures for food, housing and clothing, and their influence upon the health and efficiency of the working classes. Thrift and recreation are treated skilfully and with insight. The conclusion is forced upon one irre sistibly that a vast deal has got to be done in bringing home to the workers the fruits of our wonderful industrial civili zation. To quote the words of Secretary MacVeagh, “The great mass of the stan dards of living of the world must be rais ed—they must be raised—they are intol erable.” Mr. Streightoff’s work will take its place as one of the most thoroughing- going studies of this immense problem, analytical and descriptive rather than the oretical and constructive. But it is only upon the basis of just such scholarly and scientific work that progress or reform can be constructed. In conclusion, a word of appreciation must be spoken for the public spirit and scientific interest of Messrs. Hart Schaff- ner and Marx, whose liberality has made possible thi* valuable series of mono graphs by American students of econom- W^ilfred Eldred.
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