The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-01-29
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT
Lights and Shadows Of New York LII e.
DAYLIGHT

work noble Christian woman tells
the thrilling story Of her personal ex-
perience in Gospel temperance, miss
iol, and rescue-work In a great city.
No recent publication is now COM
handing SO much attention nor has
any other called forth such ringing
words of "God- speed" from ministers
and eminent women. It has been
preached about from ia nous pulpits,
read by tens of thousands Of suhscri-
bers, and made he subject of many a
clergyman's Sunday evening lecture.
It's authorship is fourfold, its authors
being no less than Mrs. Helen
Campbell, Rev. Lyman Abbot, 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 ain his name" spent many
years rs city missionary literally ain
Darkest New York" What wonder
full work she did How devoted and
blessed her labors were. It is story
never to be forgotten. This unique
volume presents these tn rilling expert
ences of Christian endea vor with the
hundreds of pathetic and amusing
scenes that were lacked into them it
portrays life in great city by day and
by night "As Seen by a woman; it
shows the power of the Gospel to re-
deem souls from the lowest depths; it
gives strikin testimonies of the re-
deemed; 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
account of rescue-work is full of won
derfully touching incidents. Stranger
stories are here told than romance ever
dreamed OF, every one Of them drawn
from real life by soman's hand. In
every'chapter she weaNes anecdote af-
ter anecdote, incident after incident,
story after story, ant the readea's at
tention 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,
chat Christ is to be visited in these
dens and dives; there arr those whom
He will hear in mind when he says:
~ visited me-; or, when He says: Eye
did it not 10 me-
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbot'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
life dates from my college days. From
that day to this-over third of CEN
tury-I continued the studies then be-
gun, 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 advo-
Gates can do more to promote the
cause of temperance than the thrilling
scenes and incidents so we'll described !;
at least 80 say Mrs. Mary A. Livermore
and Miss Frances E. Willard.
One of the most absorbingly inter
esting portions of the book is that
wri ten 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 published.
This fascinating volume is indeed a
wonderful tale of Christian love and
faith, all alive with intense and strik
ing reality. The best of it is that it is
pure and elevating book from begin
ming to end-a volume for the family
circle. On this point the words of
Rev. DR.. Twichell (who has family
of ten children) and Rev. DR.. Magoun,
President Iowa College, are worth quo
ting here: DR.. Twichell writes,-"My
wife says that she is going to set cur
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 always holds
and rewards attention."
1t contains 252 superb engravings,
every one OF them made from photo
graphs taken from life, mostly by flash
light. Every face is a portrait, every
scene a stern reality. In looking at
these splendid 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 outof the way places that
are rarely or never seen by the casual
visitors; ne is taken into cheap lodging
houses and cellars; into the homes of
the poor; intonewsboys' lodging-houses
into the police and detective depart
ments, etc.,-nothing seems to be omit
ted.
We do not know when TAO pages
have given us more genuine pleasure
Ii 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 work ought to be
cordially welcomed. A better work
has certainly never come to our table.
1t will be read over and over again bs
did and Young, with ever increasing
pleasure aud lasting profit.
The work is published. hy the old
ard wtil-known firm oi A. d. Worth
Ingt"n & Co, Hartford, Coun., who
imprint is sufficient guarantee of the
the excellence Of this first-class voiu me
ROYAL Octave, TAO pages. 232 fin'
plates portraits, and text illustrate. ons
IL. o. Williams ia AGENT for this ax. .n1-