The Baptist Home Mission Monthly

Mary Ella Gordon.

I am pained to chronicle the death of Mary Ella Gordon, one of the teachers of Jackson College. This occurred at her home near Okolona, Miss., Sunday evening, July 14th, after only a few days' illness. She graduated at Jackson in the class of '88. As a student she was most exemplary, diligent andable. At once she was appointed teacher in the college, holding this position till her death, with an increase of salary for the coming year. As such she was superior, hard-working, faithful, thoroughly reliable, and devotedly pious; her work and influence, not only in the schoolroom but outside, was of a high order. She will be sadly missed at Jackson, not only by the president and teachers, and by the students, but by a large circle of loving friends. She was 31 years of age. L. G. BARRETT.

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BOOK NOTICES.

Apropos of the great enthusiasm roused by the recent Northfield Conferences for Bible Study, under Mr. Moody's leadership, the editor of the Review of Reviews comments suggestively on the "New Puritan" revival in this country, and certain marked results in our politics that have already come from this revival, as shown most notably in movements for municipal reform. "Whatever it may mean in detail," says the Review, "it must mean in general that the worst period of political and municipal profligacy in the United States has been left behind us; and that the moral and religious elements of the country are going into questions of local and general government on the conviction that righteousness exalteth a nation.' The politicians will do well to reckon with these awakened elements of good citizenship."

HIEROFS AND HIERARCHS, OR BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES AS HELD BY BAPTISTS IN THE CONTENTION FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. By Samuel Haskell, D.D., Professor in the Department of Biblical Study in Kalamazoo College, Mich. Pp. 300. Price, $1.10.

This is a fresh presentation of a subject that is of prime interest to Baptists as champions of Religious Liberty. Dr. Haskell has grasped the central principle in the discussion of this subject and shows

how persecution has sprung from radically unscriptural views concerning the organization and officers of a Christian Church. The heroic resistance of martyrs for a primitive Christianity is effectively stated in connection with the general argument.

A lordly hierarchy has been the curse of Christendom. The facts in the case should be better known, and the perils to the Church of any departure from the simplicity of the Gospel. The book should have a wide reading and prove helpful in the great struggle still upon us between the two contending types of Christianity.

THE MASTER OF DEEPLAWN. By Mrs. Hattie E. Colter. Price, $1.25.

The Master of Deeplawn is a boy of fourteen when the story opens, and his history is traced until as a young man of education and fortune he completes the work begun in his earlier years, by consecrating himself, with all that he has, to the service and good of those less fortunate than he. The aim of the story is all that could be desired, but less can be said for the literary merits of the book than for its mechanical execution.

MISS CANARY. By Clara B. Conant. Price, $1.00. American Baptist Publication Society, 1420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Miss Canary, the story of a sweet young singer, is bright and interesting, although perhaps the reader would like to hear more of her and less of other people. There are pages of journals of the oldfashioned, “true inwardness ”kind, with glimpses of Hamburg and Berlin, and descriptions of Dresden, the beautiful, where the heroine is sent for the training of the bird-like voice which led her little pupils to call her "Miss Canary" instead of Miss Carey, her real name. Of course, she comes home to surprise and delight every one, and, although there is a sad little sub-story, all ends well.

QUICK TRUTHS IN QUAINT TEXTS. By R. S. MacArthur, D.D. 12mo, 336 pp. Price, $1.25. American Baptist Publication Society, 1420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

For more than twenty five years Dr. MacArthur has been pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, preaching to large audiences, building up a strong church of more than 2,000 members, and wielding an ever-widening influence for good. As a preacher, pastor, writer, author, and lecturer he has filled a large place, and filled it well. While his strong personality, his super-abounding vitality, his geniality, and his effective delivery cannot be put into type, this volume of sermons reveals something of the secret of his power, and will be eagerly welcomed not only by those who have heard them delivered, but by many who will gain from them their first impressions of the qualities of mind and heart of this admirable preacher.

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Home Mission Appointments.

"How shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent."-ROM. 10: 14-15.