Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 108:430 (Apr 1951)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Book Reviews

Calvary’s Wondrous Cross. By F. J. Huegel. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids. 116 pp. $1.50.

As one who has had much experience as a gospel preacher, missionary, and army chaplain, Mr. Huegel has presented in this small volume a clear call to Christians to exalt the cross of Christ and gather to it as the center of Christian life and experience. It is indeed interesting to observe how many pleas are being made for a more vital life on the part of Christians. It is this vital life with its relationship to the cross of Christ which comes into discussion in this book. The book is therefore as valuable as the theme which it presents and is commended for all Christians.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

The Divine Conquest. By A. W. Tozer. Fleming H. Revell, New York. 128 pp. $1.50.

This is a volume which aims at presenting the issues of a deeper spiritual life. The author is pastor of the South Side Alliance Church in Chicago. An urgent introduction is written by Dr. William L. Culbertson, President of the Moody Bible Institute. There is rich blessing here for those who would be completely adjusted to the might and power of the indwelling Spirit of God. No one can compel believers to make the necessary adjustments to enter into the deeper spiritual life. These blessings are presented to the Christian with the hope that he may respond. Dr. Tozer has made a commendable contribution to the literature of the spiritual life.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

The Church’s Ministry in Our Time. By Henry Knox Sherrill. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. 162 pp. $2.00.

Henry Knox Sherrill is Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He lifts his voice in this difficult period of the church along with many others in an appeal

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for a more vital and a more effective outliving of Christian faith. One important statement will indicate the trend of his thoughts when he asks: “Are we witnessing the death of a civilization, or the birth pangs of a new society?” It is a call to faithfulness in view of conditions in our times. Of such calls there are many at the present time. But usually men are pleading in them for the rectifying of existing conditions without recognition of the place and power of the Holy Spirit in the church. Could all the Christians be organized and centralized on one great project, however, they could not accomplish for a moment what is the work of the Spirit.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

Positive Protestantism. By Hugh Thomson Kerr, Jr. Westmi...