For the purposes of the student it will be found simple in arrangement, lucid in style, and entirely without bias; while careful chronological and other tables will facilitate its use as a text-book. At the same time the history is eminently adapted for the general reader, who will find a subject, which is often rendered for him unapproachable by the dry and technical method of its treatment, dealt with in a style at once popular and exact.
‘It is a capable and lucid narrative, which seems to succeed in treating a history which covers 14-1/2 centuries in not too sketchy a manner, and which is not intent in establishing any partizan doctrine.’—The Times.
‘It is an interesting synoptic view of the history of the Western Church.’—The Daily News.
‘It gives an able and interesting presentation of a subject which has often been made repellant by the manner in which it was treated.’—The Scotsman.
The Slave In History.
His Sorrows and his Emancipation.
By WILLIAM STEVENS,
Some time Editor of The Leisure Hour.
With Portraits and with Six Illustrations by J. Finnemore, R.A.
Large Crown 8vo. Cloth gilt. 6s.
In this work Mr. Stevens presents a vivid picture of the life and circumstances of the slave in all ages and lands. The influence of Christianity on the slave life, and the steps by which Christian nations successfully shook themselves free from complicity in slave-holding are carefully detailed; whilst the chief workers in the great emancipation movements of modern times are in turn brought before the reader’s attention. The volume furnishes at once the most comprehensive and the most up-to-date survey of the slavery question. The illustrations include some vivid pictures of slave-life, and incidents in the emancipation movement.
The China Martyrs of 1900.
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors.
Compiled and Edited by ROBERT COVENTRY FORSYTH,
For 18 years a Missionary in China of the Baptist Missionary Society.
With 144 Portraits and other Illustrations.
Demy 8vo. Cloth gilt 7s. 6d.
This volume seeks to place on record in a permanent form a complete account of the terrible convulsion in China in the year 1900, known as the Boxer Movement. It contains the thrilling story of how death, for Christ’s sake, was bravely met in many of its most hideous forms by missionaries and native Christians alike. It also describes some of the most miraculous escapes from death on the part of missionaries and native Christians. The story of the siege of Peking is described from a Christian point of view, and the author sums up his study of the great episode in the conviction that in China of to-day, as in other parts of the world in all ages, the blood of the martyrs will prove to be the seed of the Church.