The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-03
THE FAMOUS NEW BOOK.
ssDarkncss and Leighton Lights
and shadows Of New York

pcricncc in Gospal, temperance, mis-
sion, and rescue-work in a great city.
No recent publication is commanding
so much attention nor has any other
called forth such ringing words Of
"God.spccd" from ministers and cmi.
ncnt women. 1t has been preached
about from famous pulpits, read by
tens of thousands of subscribers, and
made the subject of many a clergy
mans Sunday evening lecture. Its
authorship fourfold, its four authors
being no less than:-Mrs. Helen
Campbell, Rev. Lyman Abbott, d. d.,
Col. Thomas W. Know, and Inspector
Thomas Byrnes, Chief of the New
York Detective Bureau.
Mrs. Campbell, the principal writer,
certainly was a women commissioned
by God, and "In His Name spent
many years as a city missionary litter.
ally "In Darkest New York" This
unique volume presents these thrilling
experiences Of Christian eudeavor
with the hundred Of pathetic and
amusing scene that were packed into
them; it portrays life in a great city
by day and by night GAS Seen by a
Woman" it shows the power Of the
Gospel to redeem souls from the lowest
depths, it gives striking testimonies
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. Stranger
stories are here told then romance
ever dreamed Of, every n Of them
draws from real life by woman's
hand. In every chapter she weave 10
anccdote after anccdote, incident after
incident, story after story, and the
readers attention is held breathless to
the end of the volume, "Strange but
most suggestive is the fact" says Bis.
hop 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, 'Yc 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-.
emiuently fitted him to write for this
book. In his introduction to il he
says
Only interest in these phases Of city
life dates from my college days.
From that day to this-ovcr a third of a
century, have continued the studies
then begun, and the subject Of this
Look has been one of the great sub
jects of M study-somctimcs in liter.
aturc, often in life"
No appeal from temperance advo-
Gates can do more to promote the
cause of temperance than the thrilling
scenes and incidents so we'll described
at least so say Mrs. Mary A. Liver
more and Miss Francis L. Willard.
One Of the most Accordingly inter
csting portions Of the book is that
written by Inspector Byrncs, giving
the ripe experience Of thirty years of
~detective life.
This fascinating volume is indeed a
wonderful tale of Christian love and
faith. all alive with intense and strik-
ing reality. DIR. Twichell writes,-
my wife says that she is going to set
our young people on the book right
of, for the good it will do them" and
President Magoun says,--"My family
finds, where other book on our shelves
lack intcssst, this one always holds
and rewards attention"
Ii contains 252 superb engravings,
avery ono Of them made from photo
graphs taken from life, mostly by
hashlight. Every face is a portrait
every scene a stern reality. la lssk'
ing at these splendid illustrations the
reader sees at a glance just how Cos
pei work is carried on by day and BY
night by rescue-bands; he is shswr
strange sights in out Of the way place,
that are rarely or never seen by tn,
casual visitor, ets.-nothing seems Il
be omitted.