The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-02-05
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT
Lights aud haiOws of yeW York Life.

work noble Christian woman tells
the thrilling story of her personal ex-
perience in Gospel, temperance, miss
ion, and rescue-work In a great city.
No recent publication IS now COM
manding so much atten ton nor has
any other called forth such ringing
words of "God-speed" from ministers
and eminent women. 1t has been
preached about from famous pulpits,
read by tens of thousands of subscri-
bers, and made the 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 q woman commissioned
of God, and "In his name" spent many
years as city missionary literally ain
Darkest New York" What wonder
full work she did How devoted and
blessed her labors we're. It is story
never to be forgotten. This unique
volume presents these thrilling expert
ences 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 Gas Seen By woman; it
shows the power OF the Gospel to re-
deem souls from the lowest depths; it
gives striking testimonies Of the re-
deemed; and from all these rich and
varied experiences ii draws living
truths for head aud heart that are
worth to any reader ten times the
price of the book Mrs. Campbell's
account Of rescue work is ftlll OF Won
derful.y touching Incidents. Stranger
stor}os are mere 53sd tllaa romance eEer
dreamed CT, every oroof 5hem drawn
from real life - woman hand. II
ieE Gnaolotes incident after incident,
story alter story, anG tile readea'S al
tentiOn is held GREATNESS to the end of
the volume. "Strange but most sug-
gestive 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:
~ visited me- or, when He says: Eye
did it not TO 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 so say Mrs Mary A. Livermore
and Miss Frances E. Willard.
One of the most absorbingly inter-
esting portions of the book is that
written 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
wonderful tale of Christian love and
faith, all alive with intense and strik-
ing reality. The best of it is that it is
a 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.. Twich.ell 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 always holds
and rewards attention."
1t contains 252 superb engravi ngs,
every one of them made from photo
graphs taken from life, mostly by flash
light. Every face is portrait, every
scene stern reality. In looking at
these splendid illustrations the read er
sees at a glance just how Gospel wo TX
is carried on by day and by night 10y
rescue-bands; he Is shown stran ge
sights in out of the way places that
are rarely or never seen by the casu al
visitors; he is taken into cheap lodging
houses and cellars into the homes of
the poor into newsboys' 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, II is
because it richly deserves it. 1t is
sold only by agents, and is meeting
with an enormous sale. Agents who
intrpdnce such work ought to be
cordially welcomed. A better work
has certainl. never come to cur table.
1t will be read over and over again hv
Old and young, with ever increasing
pleasure and lasting profiG.
The work is published by the old
and well-known firm Of A. D. Worth
lngt"n & CO., Hartford, Conn, who
imprint is sufficient guarantee of the
The excellence of this f.ifst-class volume.
Royal Octave, TAO pages. 232 fine.
plates portraits, aud text illustrations.
y. y. Williams, is anssnt for this excel