The Bruce Publishing Company

Preface IT IS a pity that so many good stories, recently written about the first Christians, are so lacking in verisimilitude. Their authors have not had the opportunity of seeing with their own eyes the scenes which they describe nor the advantage of a detailed knowledge of the period. There...

Our HopeIN THE HANDS OF A WOMANHOLY WEEK for a Trappist is something tremendous. It is the noisiest of all the weeks in his swift, silent cycle of fifty-two. For he opens it with "Hosannas" that once shook the City^^ of Jerusalem, and closes it with "Alleluias" that have shaken the centuries, and...

PREFACE BY THE GENERAL EDITORAmong the momentous events of our twentieth century we cannot fail to mention, as of utmost interest and significance, the luminous apparitions of our Lady to three shepherd children in a mountainous recess of Portugal: Jacinta, Francis, and Lucy, the three little seers...

PREFACE The kind reception given by the public to a book on the Old Testament called The Two-Edged Sword has encouraged both the author and the publishers to attempt a similar book on the New Testament. This is the book. The preface of The Two-Edged Sword contained some explanation of the nature...