, 1897-03-11
THE FAMOUS NEW o o
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and
Shadows of New York Life"

work u nODle CnrlStlAn woman tells the
thrilling story Of her personal expert
ence in Gospel, temperance, mission and
in a great city. No recent
is now commanding SO much
attention, nor has any other called forth
such ringing words Of "God-speed"
from ministers and eminent wOmen 1t
has beer preached about from famous
pulpits, read by tens Of thousands OF sub
scribers, and made the subject OF many
a ciergyman's Sunday evening lecture.
Its authorship is fourfold. its four au-
thors 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 mi commissioned Of
God, and "In His Name spent many
years as a city missionary literally I'm
Darkest New York" What a wonderful
work she did. How devoted and blessed
her labors were. 1t is u story never to
be forgotten. This unique volume pre-
sents these thrilling experiences OF
Christian endeavor with the hundreds
of athletic and amusinp scepas tina,
were packed into them; it portrays life
in a great city by day and by night LAS
Seen bv a Woman: it shows he now
or of the Gosnel IN redeem souls from
the lowest depths: it gives striking tes-
rjmonies of the redeemed. and from al,
these rich and varied experiences it
draws living ,rutbs for head and hear,
that are worth 10 any reader ten times
the pr;ce of The work Mrs Camnbeu,s
account Of rescue-work is fulI of won
derfully toucbing Incidents Stranger
stories are here told tbun romance ever
dreamed OF. every one of them drawn
trou ron, Ito b, w,r.r,, h,rd T.,
every cbanter she wea yea in anecdote
after snecdote incident after incident
story after story and rba readers atren-
tion is held breathless tn the end NJ tho
volume. "Sfranpe bnt mos, suggestive
is the fact." saws Bishon Coke in warmly
commenting tbis vo,,me .tbo, Chr;st
is n no visited in tbese dens and divas
there are those whom He will hear in
mind when ue saws. .ye v;s;ted Mo
mr. when He s,vs. .ye did If M, IN Nc. "
Rev Dr LYMAN Abbott,s l;se-,ong in.
feres1 in civ mission work md bis nor.
sonal share in that work nre-emi,en,1v
fttad him IN wr;,a for ,b;s booL In his
introduction IN II ba savs.
NJ interest in these pb,ses ~ citv
| life daIes from nv COLLEGE davs From
That dav to tbis-over a third ~ q cor-
tury-I have continued the studies then
begun and tho suhiact of b;s bool hoe
been one of the great spbiec,s or NV
ines in 1i,erature oftan
in life"
No aDpeal from temnaranca .dvoc,,es
can do more IN m the causa of
temperance than the thrilling scenes and
Incidents so we'll described. nj ,aas q, On
saw Mrs. Mary A. Livermore md Miss
Frances f. Willard.
One OF the most ~absorbinp,v iptares,-
ing poriions of the b,ok 10 tb.t wri,to,
by Inspector Byrnes giving the ripe ex-
%perience OF thirty wears OF detective life
Many of the startling revelations he
mikes are taken from bis nrivote diary
They have never before been publisbed
This fascinating volume is indeed n
wonderful tale of Christian love and
faith, all alive with intense and striking
reality. The best OF it is that it is n 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 ion chill
dren) and Rev. DR.. Magn,n president
Iowa College. are worth ouo,inp hero
DR.. Twicbell writes. INV wife savs sbo
is going to ser orr voune neonle IN tho
book right off. for the po,d II w;,, do
| them" And presidan1 uago,, s,vs.
MY family finds WHARF other booLs y,
our shelves lack interest tbis ono NJ
WAYS holds and rewards .t,an,;on"
1t contains 90 sunerb enor.v;n.s
every one of them made from nbot,
graphs taken from life mostlv INV fash
light. Every face 10 a nor,ra;, ovor,,
scene is a Stern reality In ,ookino n,
these splendid illustrations ,ba readsr
sees at a eIance i,st bow cosno, uor,,
is carried on nv dav and INV nioh, hv