"The facts are indisputable, and they tell their own story. Nor can we refrain from commending the volume as a most striking and valuable contribution to the religious thought of the world. It is emphatically one of the few books that no religious thinker can afford to be without."—President W. R. Harper, in the Old Testament Student.
"We thank the author for this fruit of vast labor and persevering research. It is worthy of the study of all students of religion."—Rev. Charles A. Briggs, D. D.
"It seems to us to throw a true and important light upon the sacrament of the Holy Communion, and to rescue it alike from Roman perversion and Zwinglian degradation. Throughout we have been impressed by its reserve of power, its care not to press unduly any analogy. It seems to us a model of what biblical study should be."—The Churchman.
The Threshold Covenant
Or, The Beginning of Religious Rites
8vo. $2.50
"It is brimful of accurate knowledge and new points of view, and is written so charmingly that a child could understand and follow."—A. H. Sayce, Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford.
"Un livre où s'allient à une si admirable familiarité avec les civilisations de l'antiquité tant de sagacité exégétique et de puissance de synthèse et d'invention."—Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, Paris.
"I am delighted to have been able to make early acquaintance with a book so full of facts which really illuminate the dark places of primitive times. That the explanation of the Hebrew Scriptures profits much by it is clear."—Professor Dr. T. K. Cheyne, Oxford.