Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 97:387 (Jul 1940)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Book Reviews

So Great Salvation. By J. F. Strombeck. Strombeck Agency, Inc., Moline, Ill. 152 pp. 50¢ in cloth.

This is Mr. Strombeck’s third book on vital spiritual themes-a successful business man making no claim to theological training. In this volume he has traced the necessity for and the righteous grounds of salvation by the grace of God. Very few indeed in this generation are able to write or speak accurately respecting the gospel of divine grace. The clear and simple declaration set forth in this book of the marvels of God’s way of saving the lost is highly commended, and every preacher, evangelist, and soul winner should read and reread this volume. For a cloth-bound book of 150 pages, the price is exceedingly low, that is, compared with other books in general, but when its own intrinsic worth as a gospel exposition is considered, the book can hardly be priced at all.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

Yesterdays in Persia and Kurdistan. By Frederick G. Coan. Saunders Studio Press, Claremont, Calif. 284 pp. $2.50.

This volume, which is of the nature of an autobiography of a great missionary with a foreword by Robert E. Speer, is a thrilling story of earlier years in Persia and Kurdistan. The author has peculiar powers of expression and description in simple, winsome language which cannot but make this book of great value to young people. Probably no better measurement of the purpose and value of the book can be formed than is found in the author’s own words in the preface: “The object of this book is to give an account of the human and romantic aspects of a missionary’s life, to outline the experiences of a life of service of a kind that, with the change of times, has become almost unique, and, above all, to present that side of the missionary’s life that will especially interest the young. I am the more encouraged to do this by the fact that, wherever I have spoken, whether in high schools, churches, or Sunday Schools, it has been the young people who have been my best listeners. So many of

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them have had such a mistaken idea of the missionary life. Some think of it as a dull and unattractive life, a life in which one buries oneself, as it were, among stupid, uninteresting, and inferior people, in impossible climates, countries where one must give up all that is bright, all that counts for so much at home, countries where one forgets to laugh. The fact is that there is no adventure in the world to be compared to that of the missionary adventure, no life that is fuller of interest and thrills, none that calls for greater variety of talents and abilities. No one is happier than the missionary, and there is nothing that brings gre...