The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-07-08
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT, +"
OR LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF NEW
YORK LIFE.
A Famous New Book That Should Be Read
by Every One. Sold in Dawson by
Mrs. M. A. Harden.

Mrs. M. A. Harden.
In this new and superbly illustrate
work noble christian woman tells tn
thrilling story of her personal expert
ence in gospel, temperance, missionar
and rescue work in great city. No re
cent publication is now commanding 81
much attention, nor has any other called
forth such ringing words of "God-speed'
from ministers and eminent women
1t has been preac he'd about from famous
pulpits, read by tens OF thousands Of
subsc. ibers, and made the subject OF
many a clergymans Sunday evening
lecture. Its authorship is fourfold It's
four authors being no less than Mrs.
Helen Campbell, Rev. Lyman Abbott,
d. D., Colonel Thomas W. Knox and
Inspector Thomas 9yrnes, Chief of the
New York Detective Bureau.
Mrs. Campbell, the principal writer,
certainly vas woman commissioned of
God, and "In His Name" spent many
years as a city missionary literally sin
Darkest New York" What wonder
full work she did. How devoted and
blessed were Der laboIs. tits a story
never to be forgotten This unique vol
ume presents these thrilling experiences
of christian endeavor with the hundreds
of pathetic and amusing scenes that
were packed into them; it portrays life
in great city by day and by night "As
Seen by Woman" it shows the power
of the gospel to redeem souls from the
lowest depths; it gives striking testimo-
MES of the redeemed and from all these
rich and varied experiences it draws liv-
ing truths for head aud heart that are
worth to any reader ten times the price
of the book. Mrs. CampbelPs account
of rescue work is full of wonderfully
touching incidents. Stranger stories are
here told than romance ever dreamed of,
every one of them drawn from real life
by woman's hand. In every chapter
she weaves in anecdote after anecdOte,
incident after incident, story after story,
and the readers attention is held breath
less to the end of the volume. "Strange
but most suggestive is the fact" says
Bishop Coke in warmly commencing
this volume, "that Christ is to be visited
in these dens and dyes; there are those
whom He will bear in mind when He
says; 'Ye visited me- or, when He
says: 'Ye did it not to Me-"
Rev. DR.. AbbOtt's lifelong interest in
city mission work, and his personal
share in that work, prominently fitted
him to write for this book, In his in
PRODUCTION to it he says:
'My interest in these phases Of city
life dates from my college days. From
that day to this-Over third of centu-
ry--1 have continued the studies then
begun, and the 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
temperance than the thrilling. scenes and
incidents so well described; at least so
say Mrs. Mary A. Liverml re and Mrs.
Frances E. Willard.
One of the most Accordingly interest
ing portions of the book is that written
by Inspector Byrnes, 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 publish
ed.
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. Dir.
Twichell (who has family of ten chill
dren) 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 off, for the good it will
do them;' and President Magoun says
my family finds, where other books on
our shelves lack interest, this one al
ways holds and rewards attention.
1t contains 252 superb engravings, ev-
eryone of them made from photographs
taken from life, mostly by fash-light.
Every face is a portrait, every scene a
stern reality. In looking these splen-
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-
theway places that are rarely or meyer
seen by the casual visitor; he is taken in
to cheap lOdging-houses and cellars; in
to the homes of the poor; into newsboys'
lodging houses; into the police and de-
tective departments, etc.-nouhing
seems to be omitted.
We do not know when TAO pages haye
given us more genuine pleasure. If we
speak warmly of the book, it is because
it 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 bet
ter 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 6y the old and
reliable firm Of A, D. Worthington &