Religious Work

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 10 (Supplement)

Religious Work

AMONG the recent books published by Marshall, Morgan and Scott is one by Mr. J. Oswald Sanders, superintendent of the New Zealand Bible Training Institute. It is an attractive volume in elnJh of well over ;i hundred uiiaw, iiiul it* title. ''('lirUt Indwelling inn! llntliriineil." , iiptly fltiguests Mr. Senders" nlij'elivi—the promotion of pmelifii! hi)line>« in lii* readers. The hook, couched in simple. pointed langiinge, is liomiletic throughout, an<l hortatory, and i-iiipluiciseH the. need of rplifiiK'c on tlie Holy Spirit. It gives evidence <>f careful preparation and, within limits, of considerable, reading. From tlie same firm comee another recent publication containing a number

of sf ories, urnne of them touching, others amusing, of men behind prison bars. "The Other Side of the Prison Gate" is the work of Captain W. Spencer, J.P., of the Church Army. 'First published in one of the Kimlish weeklies, the storic** have been rearranged arid grouped under appropriate headings. Tlie author draws attention to ' the difference between the penal system of to-day and that of forty years a<lo, and tells u« that, contrary to general opinion, confirmed women drinkers can be reformed, that he has found pood in the hearts

of even the worst characters and that, onoe a prisoner reforms, he wants to help in reforming other prisoners. He saw a good deal of Horatio Bottoniley who. lie says, had an altered outlook on life, read his Bible regularly, and even aukc<l for enlightenment on it. On one occasion Bottoniley told him that he. had come to the conclusion that any life lived without God must ultimately end in failure.

From the Publishers FICTION. The Young Pretender, by C. R. Allfn (Mnssic). Mountain Flat, ny Leonard Mann (Jonathan Cape). Catherine Wheel, h.V John Butler Joyce; Longshanks and I, by Pnmris Foster; Tiger Standish Takes the Field, toy Sydney Hurler (Hoddi-r and Sloughtnn). Family Album, by Humphrey Pahing-ton (Chatto anil WLinlus). Into Thin Air, by Gcnisre Valzey (Harrap). NON-FICTION. Call to the Winds, by P. S. Taylor (Angus and Robertson). The English: From Pirates to Prophets, by Kdmond ITtvat (Allen and Unwin). I Married a German, by Madeleine Kent (Allen and inwin). Screen Acting: How to Pass a Screen Teat, by Petor Rrc (Aiyrus and IVvbcrtsuit). The Economic Strength of Japan, by Isostii Asatii (llokuscido Press, Tokyo).