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STUDENTS AND THE MODERN MISSIONARY CRUSADE. Addresses delivered at the Fifth International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions at Nashville, Tennessee, 1906. Svo. 713 pp. $1.50. Student Volunteer Movement, New York. 1906.

The quadrennial conventions of Student Volunteers have a worldwide reputation for their powerful addresses and inspiring influence. Each gathering seems to outstrip all that have gone before in the spiritual tone, the number of missionary statesmen in attendance, the importance of the topics discussed and in the number of lives brought into closer harmony with the will of God. This year over 4,000 delegates gathered for a 5 days' convention; of these over 3,000 were students, 156 foreign missionaries, and the remainder presidents and instructors of educational institutions, officers of various young people's organizations, editors, etc. It is, of course, impossible to reproduce on a printed page the stirring effect of these spoken addresses, but they are of permanent value and their inspiration scarcely fail to be felt by those who read them. Such messages as "The Inadequacy of the Non-Christian Religions," by Robert E. Speer; "The Lordship of Jesus Christ," by J. Campbell White; "The Relation of Diplomacy to Christian Missions," by Hon. John W. Foster; "Unprecedented Opportunities in the Far East," by Dr. A. J. Brown, stir the soul even in print. The masterly surveys of the mission fields by such men and women as Rev. Donald Fraser and Wm. H. Sheppard, of Africa; S. R. Vinton, of Burma; Dr. Hunter Corbett, Miss Patterson and Frank A. Keller, of China; James B. Rodgers, of the Philippines, and Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Zwemer, of Arabia, bring a wealth of information within Our reach that can scarcely be found in any other volume.

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Here is material and suggestion for countless missionary addresses; here are "Macedonian calls" that

should serve to enlist volunteers for years to come, and here is information enough to make us all encyclopedias of missions. The orderly arrangement and complete index make the volume thoroughly useful. Don't fail to buy it and use it.

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IN THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL. Manual of Methods. By Martha B. Hixson. 12mo. 215 pp. 50 cents. The Young People's Missionary Movement, New York, 1906.

Books on missionary instruction for young people are rapidly increasing. We hope that their use will Missions in the

grow as rapidly. Sunday-school have been a comparatively neglected field, but the day is coming fast when it will be vigorously tilled both in the interests of the school and of missionary work. Marion Lawrence calls this book a "very gold mine of suggestions." It is practical and explicit in its ideas and plans. Pictures and diagrams give added light. The chapters deal with fundamental principles, organization, exercises, mission study classes, materials, giving, prayer and practical work. Superintendents and missionary committees will find this vol

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most useful. They have no longer-if they ever had an excuse for failing to give the work of God in other fields a place in the Sundayschool.

MISSIONARY STORIES FOR THE SUNDAYSCHOOL. Second series. Edited by George Harvey Trull. 2 pamphlets. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, New York. 1906.

This second series of studies for the junior, intermediate and senior grades are timely addenda to the volume mentioned above. They give the material for specific missionary studies in the lives of great missionaries to the Red Men of America and the Black Men of Africa. These lives furnish information and inspiration. John Eliot, David Brainerd, Marcus Whitman, Egerton Young, Robert Moffat, Samuel Crowther,

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THE SCRIPTURE OF TRUTH. Sidney Collett. S. W. Partridge & Co., London. Its origin, languages, translations, canon, symbols, inspiration, alleged errors and contradictions, plan, science, comparison with other sacred books, etc.

It will be seen what abundant ground is covered here, and well covered. It is written from the most conservative point of view, and shows very careful and painstaking study. A second edition was called for within four months after the first. It is a book of about 325 pp. and full of instructive matter. We noted frequent quotations and appropriations of matter from other writers, which it would be well in a subsequent edition to acknowledge as such, otherwise other

writers might be thought to have borrowed from Mr. Collett, when the reverse is true. But the book is very

much to be valued as a defense of the Word of God.

COMING AMERICANS. Katharine R. Crowell. Booklet. 25 cents. The Willet Press, 5 West 20th St., New York. 1906.

The purpose of this new booklet for juniors is to interest "Americanborn" children in "American-made" children. The life of the immigrant child is pictured and described. Suggestive questions are appended and side topics and references added. This is a worthy addition to Miss Crowell's other missionary booklets for juniors.

Mr. Henry Goodman, in "Trusting and Toiling," has a thoughtful paper on Israel's place in the Divine Plan, as indicated by the three typical trees -the fig, olive and lime, which he treats as types of Israel's national position, covenant privilege and spiritual blessing. This brief paper evinces no little study of scripture and careful comparison of its teachings, and is both interesting and instructive, especially to those who desire to know God's mind touching the Jewish nation.

NEW PAMPHLETS

A MISSION'S CATECHISM. By Rev. J. Sanders Reed, D.D. Booklet. 25 cents. Hungerford-Holbrook Co., Watertown, New York. 1906.

POINTS FOR PASTORS Concerning the Monthly Concert of Prayer for Missions. Leaflet. Board of F. M. Presbyterian Church. 1906. KOREA. (Mission Study Popularized). By

Edward A. Marshall. Pamphlet. 15 cents. Bible Institute Colportage Association, Chicago. 1906.

THE CONVERTED CATHOLIC. (Bound volume). Edited by Rev. James A. O'Connor, New York. 1906.

GLEANINGS FROM SOUTH CHINA. Souvenir volume of the Bible Missionary Society, Macao, China. Pamphlet. 1906.

SOME OF THE LEADING PERIODICALS OF JAPAN

1 Keizai Zasshi (Economist)

2 Kyoiku Sekai (Educational World)

3 Jidai Shicho (Topics for the Times)

4 Rikugo-Zasshi (Cosmos) (Unitarian)

5 Shinjin (Ebina's paper)

6 Kyoiku Jikken Kai (Practical Educator)

7 Meiji no Joshi (Young Women's C. A.) (English Section)

8 Shin Bukkyo (New Buddhism)

9 The Sun Trade Journal (English Section)

10 Seikyo Shimpo (Greek Church)

11 Koye (Voice) (Roman Catholic)

12 Kuni no Hikari (Temperance) (English Section)

13 Nichiyo Soshi (English Church)

14 Jogaku Sekai (Woman's Educational World)

15 The Young Women of Japan (English)

16 Kirisutokyo Seinen (Y.M.C.A.) (English Section)

17 Jitsugyo no Nihon (Industrial Japan)

18 Taiyo (Sun) (English Section)

19 Chuo Koron (Buddhist)

20 Dai Nihon (Presbyterian)

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SOME OF THE LEADING SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS IN JAPAN

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PASTOR UANG'S MANIFESTO

A prominent missionary writes from pire and people a proper leader! China that a very conspicuous writer in one of the main newspapers of Peking, himself a Buddhist, has written a startling article in which he advocates the establishment of the Jesus Church in China. His argument is equally noteworthy.

He begins by calling attention to the present trend toward radical reforms. Then he notes that all important reform movements emanate from the West, and that when traced they are found to crystalize about a man or group of men; that these reformers, when they are studied as to the source of their ideas and inspirations, are found to be imbued with the Jesus' religion. And so the writer concludes that the surest way to promote reforms is to introduce and foster the Jesus Church and faith. But he also concludes that the reform work can only be successfully carried on in China by natives, not foreigners; and so he logically argues that some eminent man must connect himself with the Jesus religion, understand all about it, become imbued with it, and then become the representative head of it in China; so that all that is good about

The recent publication of the manifesto of Pastor Uang Hsu-Sheng, of a San Francisco Presbyterian Chinese Church, is similar to this. The document was issued secretly to the Chinese Christians in Shanghai, and calls upon them to unite and form a National Church for the Chinese-"The Chinese Self-dependent Church of Jesus," to be controlled by the Chinese without any reference to foreigners. Pastor Uang declared in forcible phraseology that, as a result, "enduring prosperity and peace will be enjoyed by all, the Lord's Kingdom will speedily come to China, the masses will be influenced, our nation by this opportunity will turn. from weakness to strength, and when our eyes have been rubbed awake, shall behold a most happy path before the Church, and fortune's road before the Chinese nation."

We can not but regret in this document an apparent lack of Christian spirit, a misreading of history, an evident jealousy of foreigners, an antidynastic spirit, and a magnifying of the nation's fame as a satisfying ob

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