The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-17
The FAMOUS NEW Book,
DARKNESS AND DAyLIGHT,n
Lights ana shadows Of New York Lire.

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thrilling story OF her personaI ex-
perience in Gospel, temperance,
mission, and rescue-work in a great
city. M recent publication Ia now
commanding so much attention nor
has any other called forth such
ringing words of "God-speedn from
ministers and eminent women. Ii
has been preached from famous
pulpits, read by tens of thousands
of subscribers, and made the sub
ject of many a clergyman's Sunday
evening lectures. Its authorship
is fourfold, its four authors being
no less than:-Mrs. Helen Camp
bell, 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, certainly was a woman
commissioned of God, and "In His
Name" spent many years as a city
missionary literally "In Darkest
New Yopk." What 6 wonderful
work she did. How 4 oled and
blessed her labors W 1t is a
story never to be forge en-. This
unique volume presents these
thrilling experiences of Christian
endeavor with the hundreds of pa
thetic and amusing scenes that
we're packed into them IL portrays
life In n great city by day and
night Gas Seen by a Womap"; 1t
shows the power Of the Gospel to
redeem souls from the lowest
depths; it gives striking testimon-
les of the redeemed; and from all
these rich and varied experiences
1t draws living truths for head and
heart that are worth TO any reader
ten times the price of the book
Mrs. Campbelr's account Of rescue
work is full of wonderfully touch
ing incidents. Stranger stories are
here told than romance ever
dreamed of, every one of them
drawn from real life by a woman's
hand. In every chapter she weaves
in anecdote .after anecdote, Incl
dent after incident, story after
story, and the readers attention is
held breathless to the end Of the
volume. "Strange but most sug-
gestive Is the fact" says Bishop
Coke In warmly commencing this
volume, "that Christ Ia to be Wis
tied In these dens and dives; there
are those whom He will bear in
mind when He says: eye visited
me-; or, when he says: eye did it
not to Me-"
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott's life
long interest in City Mission work,
and his personal share in that
work, pre-eminently fitted him TO
write for this book. In his intro
duction to it he says
"My interest in these phases OF
city life dates from my college days.
From that time to t%his--over a
third of a century--I have con-
tinued the studies then begun, and
the subject of this book has been
one CT the great subjects of my
study--sOmetimes in literature, Of
ten in life."
No appeal from temperance ad-
vocate a do more to promote the
cause of temperance than the thrill
ing scenes and incidents so we'll
described, at least so says Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore and Miss Fran
els e. Willard.
One of the most absorbingly in
teresting portions Of the book is
that written by Inspector Byrnes
giving the ripe experience of thirty
years of detective life. Many of
the startling revelations he makes
are taken from his private diary.
They have never before been pub
lished.
This fascinating volume is in
deed a wonderful tale OF christian
love and faith, all alive with in
tense and striking reality. The
best Of it il that it is a pure and ele-
waiting book from beginning to end
volume for the family use. On
this point the words of Rev. DR..
Twichell (who has a family of ten
children) end Rev. DR.. Magoun.
President Iowa College, are worth
quoting here: DR.. Twichell writes,
-"My wife says that she is going
to set our young people IN the book
right off, for the good 1t will do
them; and President Magoun
says,--"My family finds,
where other looks on our shelves
lack interest, this one always holds
and rewards attention"
1t contains 252 superb engrav-
ings, every one of them made from
photographs taken from life, most
ly by fiash-light. Every portrait is
a face portrait, every scene a stern
reality. In looking at these splen-
did Illustrations the reader sees at
a glance just how Gospel work Is
carried on by day and by night
by rescue-hands J. 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 Gel
lars, into the homes Of the poor; In
to D~ewsboys' lodging-houses; into
the the police anu detective depart.
ments, etc.;-nothing seems to be
omitted.
We do not know when TAO pages
have given us more genuine pleas
ure. If we speak warmly Of the
book, it Is because IL richly de-
serves 1t. 1t is sold only by agents,
and is meeting with an enormous
sale. Agents who Introduce such a
work ought to be cordially well
coined. A better work has GER
tointu paynr nnnoa Ia nnr tohla Tt