Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 99:394 (Apr 1942)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Book Reviews

God’s Purpose in This Age. By John H. McComb, D.D. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 93 pp. $1.00.

Dr. McComb has presented us with a series of addresses in brief space and the book is named after the first in the series. Other chapters are: Satan’s Propaganda; The Deity of Christ; Glorying in the Cross; The Perseverance of the Saints; The Seat of Authority; Proofs of Divine Paternity; After Death What?

The publisher well declares: “A tonic for the present hour in world history, which seeks to foster faith and banish doubt and indifference to the things of God. The author here presents the fundamental teachings of Holy Scripture in a direct, forceful manner, for instruction and comfort and evangelization. The addresses when originally delivered were received with enthusiasm by both old and young people, and their stress on basic doctrine will command attention among all classes of readers.”

The reading of these pages has been an inspiration. They reflect the terse style of a thoroughly enlightened and sincere metropolitan preacher. The book will be cherished by all who hear Dr. McComb as preacher and should, also, reach a multitude who are beyond the sound of his voice. The book is dedicated to his mother to whom he was supremely devoted and who, since its publication, has been called to her heavenly home.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

Walks with Our Lord through John’s Gospel. By Erling C. Olsen. Zondervan, Grand Rapids. Two volumes, 651 pp. $3.00.

The riches of God’s measureless grace are stored in the Gospel by John; yet comparatively few books have been written as expositions of it. Mr. Olsen, having completed an extended study of the Psalms in radio messages, has continued his radio ministry for more than two years in the Gospel by John. The studies in the Psalms were published

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when that ministry was concluded and were highly commended in BIBLIOTHECA SACRA. Mr. Olsen has now completed the series on the Gospel by John and these messages are published in two volumes, in all nearly seven hundred pages. The lessons have been given at a stated hour each week out of New York City over radio station WMCA and out of Philadelphia over radio station WIP.

Mr. Olsen is a business man with unusual responsibility, but he has for a term of years continued a helpful expository testimony over the radio covering the eastern seaboard. His name is a household feature in thousands of Christian homes. Many, indeed, who have heard these rare expositions of John’s Gospel are happy now that they are available in book form. Of these refreshing blessings, Dr. Wilbur M. ...