Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-11-22
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT"
OR LIGHTS N SHADOWS OF NEW YORK
LIFE,

Oh GioFNI ANO OF1NOONo UT VIEW IOhN |
LIFE.
In this new and superblv illustrated
work a noble Christian woman tells the
thrilling story of her personal exper-
ence in gospel, Temperatures, mission,
and rescue-work in IA great city. No
recent publication is now commanding
so much attention nor has any other cal
led forth such ringing words of God
speed" from. ministers and eminent
women 1t has been preached about from
famous pulpits. read by tens of thou
sands of subscribers, and made the sub
iect of many a clergyman's Sunday eve
ming lecture. Its authorship is fourfold,
its four authors being no less than =
Mrs. Helen Campbell, Rev. Lyman
Abbott, d. D., Col. Thomas w. Knox.
and Inspector 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 SIN
work she did. How devoted and blessed
her labors were. 1t is a story never to
be forgotten. This unique volume pre-
sents these thrilling experiences 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 a Woman; it 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 it draws
living truths for head and heart that
are worth to any reader ten times the
price of the book. Mrs. Campbell's ac-
count of rescue-wOrk is full of wonder
fully touching incidents. Stranger stor-
les are here told thar 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, incident after incident.
story after story, and the readers atten-
ton is held breathless to the end of the
volume. strange but most suggestive
is the fact" says Bishop Coke in warmly
commenting this volume, that Christ
is to be visited in these denS and dives {:
there are those whom He will bear IN
mind when he says: We visited me-; or,
when he says: 'Ye did it not to Me-"
Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott's lifelong
interest in City Mission work. and his
personal share in that work, pre-emi-
nently fitted him to write for this book.
In his Introduction to it he says:-
my interest in these phases OF city lite
dates from my college days. From that day
to this-Ocer q mira ora centuTV-I have con
tlnued me studies then begun, and the subject
OF this book has been one OF the subjects of
my study-sometimes IN literature, often i'm
lite"
No appeal from temperance advocates
can do more to promote the cause of
temperance than the thrilling scenes and
incidents so well described at least so
say Mrs. Mary A.. Livermore and Miss
Frances +. Willard.
One of the most a~bsOrbingly interest
ing portions of the book is that written
by Inspector Bvrnes giving the ripe eX-
perience Of thirty years of detective life.
Many of the startling revelations he
makes are taken from his private diary.
They have never before been published.
This fascinating volume is indeed a
wonderful tale of Christian love and
faith, all alive with intense and striking
reality. The best of it is that it is a
pure and elevating book from beginning
to end-a volume for the family circle.
On this point the words of Rev. DR..
Twichell (whO has a family of ten child
REM and 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
on the book right of. for the good il will
do them: and President Magoun says,
MY family finds, where other books
on our shelves lack interest, this one
always hold and rewards attention."
1t contains 252 superb e~ngrayings.
every one of them mddc from photographs
taken trom lde, mostly by haSh-light.
Every face is "A portrait, every scene a
stern reality. In looking at these SPLEEN
did illustrations the reader sees at a
glance just how gospel work is carried
on by day and 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, et~c.,-nothing
seems to be omitted.
We do not know when 40 pages have
given us more genuine pleasure. If we
speak warmly of the book. it is because 1t
richly deserves it. 1t is sold only by
agents, and is meeting with an enormous
sale. Agents who Introduce such "A work
ought to be cordially welcomed. a
better work has certainly never come to
our table. 1t will be read over and over
again by old and young, with ever in
creasing pleasure and lasting profit.
The work is published by the old and
well-knOwn firm of \. ID. WorthingtOn
q Co., Hartford, Conn, whose imprint
Is sufficient guarantee of the excellence
of this first-class volume. Royal Octa-
vo, 740 pages. 252 fine plates, portraits.
and text llustratiOns.-1dU.