Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-24
THE FAMOUS NEW BOOK
DARKNESS and Daylight" or Lights and
Shadows of New York Life.


Shadows of New York Life.
In this new and superbly illustrated
work a nobel Christian woman tells the
thrilling story of her personal experience
in Gospel, temperance, mission, and rescue
work in great city. No recent publlca-
ton is now commanding so much attention.
nor has any other called forth such ringing
words of ''God-speed" from ministers and
eminent women. IL has been preached
about from famous pulpits, read by tens OF
thousands of subscribers, and made the
subject Of many clergyman's Sunday
evening lecture. It's authorship IS four
fold, its four authors being no less than
Mrs Helen Campbell, Rev. Lyman Abbott,
d. D., Col Thomas w. Knox, and Inspec-
tor Thomas Byrnes, Chief of the New
York Detective Bureau.
Mrs. Campbell, the principal writer, GER
tainly was woman commissioned OF God,
and "In his Name" spent many years as
CITY missionary literally 'In Darkest New
York; What a wonderful work she did.
How devoted and blessed her labors were.
1t is q story never to be forgotten This
unique volume presents these thrilling eX-
periences of Christian endeavor with the
hundreds Of pathetic and amusing scenes
that were packed into them; IT portrays
life in a great city by day and by night
''As seen by Woman:" II shows the pow
or of the Gospel to redeem souls from the
lowest depths; it gives striking teSumon-
les of the redeemed; and from all these
rich and varied experiences it draws living
truths for head and heart that are worth 70
any reader ten times the price
of the book. Mrs. CampbelPs ac-
count OF rescue work is 1ull
of wonderfully touching incidents. Strang-
or stories are here told than romance ever
dreamed of, every one Of them drawn from
real life bv a womans hand. In every
chapter she weaves in anecdote after anec-
dote, incident after incident, story after
story, and the readers attention is heid
GREATNESS to the end of the volume.
"Strange but most suggestive IS the fact"
saws Bishop Coke in warmly commencing
this volume, "that Christ is TO be visited IN
these dens and dives; there are those whom
He will bear IN mind when ne says: 'Ie
visited me-, or, when ne says: '1e ala IL
not TO me-
Rev. Rr. Lyman Abbott's lifelong inter
est in City Mission work, and MS personal
share IN that work, prominently htted
him to write for this book. In his intro
duction 10 ii he says
'My interest 10 these phases OF CITY he
dates from my college days. From that
dav 20 this-OUCr a third of Il century, have
tOnLlQutu
subject of this book has been one OF the
great subjects of my study-sometimes IN
literature often in life"
No appeal from temperance advocates
can do more TO promote the cause OF tenn
perance than the thrilling scenes and incl
dents so well described; at least so say Mrs.
Mary A, LiVermore and Miss Frances e.
Willard.
one of the most absorbingly interesting
portions of the book is that written by In
spector Byrnes giving the ripe experience
of thirty years of detective life. Many OF
the startling revelations he makes are
taken from his private diary. Ihey nave
never before been published.
This fascinating volume is indeed won
derful tale of Christian love and faith, all
alive with intense and striking reality. The
best of il is that il is pure and eleVatlng
hook from beginning TO end-a volume Tor
the family circle. On this point the words
of Rev DR.. Twichell (who has family OF
ten children and Rev. DR., Magoun, Presl'
dent Iowa College, are worth quoting here
DIR Tvicheu -"My wife says that
She is going to set our young people on the
book right off, for the good 1t Will DO
them;n and President Megoun says MY
family finds, where other books on our
shelves lack interest, this one always NOUS
ana NSWafuS dlVSilAo4l.
1t contains 252 superb engravings, every
one of them made from photographs taken
from life. mostly by flash-light. Every
face is a portrait, every scene a stern realI-
Nv. In looking at these splendid lllustra-
tions the reader sees at glance just how
Gospel work is carried on by day aud by
night by rescue bands; he is shown strange
sights in out of the way places that are
rarely or never seen by the casual visitor;
he is taken into cheap lodging houses and
cellars: into the homes Of the poor; into
newsboys' lodging houses; into the police
and detective departments, etc.,-nothlng
seems to be omitted.
we DO not know when $40 pages nave
given us more genuine pleasure. IL we
speak warmly of the Ooo6, IL IS because II
richly deserves il. 1t is sold only by
agents. and is meeting with an enormous
sale. Agents who introduce sucn work
ought 10 be cordially welcomed. a better
work has certainly never come to our table
Ii will be read over and over again oy OH
and Young, with ever increasing pleasure
and lasting profit.
The work is published by the old aud
we'll .known firm of A. D. Wortnington *
Co. Hartford, Conn, whose imprint Is
sufficient guarantee of the excellence OF
this tirst-class volume. Royal Octave, 40
pages. 252 fine plates, portraits, ana text
Illustrations.