Matthew John

A good book about a great man of God, May 28 2013

Livingstone the Pathfinder by Basil Mathews, 1912, 1943 is a really good book on the life of Dr David Livingstone, missionary explorer. The book is based for a youth readership, and so apart from some of the younger references is quite mature in its outlook.

The book includes photos and illustration and a map of Livingstone's travels which is not that easy to read, or the various types of lines to plot all of his travels. A good read on the bicentenary of Livingstone's birth!

An interesting Christian book, May 28 2013

With and Without Christ by Sadhu Sundar Singh, 1929 are `incidents taken from the lives of Christian and non-Christians which illustrate the difference in lives lived with Christ and without Christ.' The book is 129 pages long divided into just 6 chapters.

The first chapter is Singh's conversations (and his life in chapter 5) with those of other faiths - without Christ - and is interesting as he talks to a sadhu on a bed of spikes, an ascetic walled into a cave, a liberal Rabbi In Jerusalem and a fan of Confucius in Peking, China. This is book is better than Sadhu Sundar Singh Reality and Religion (1924).

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Little snippets of wisdom and insights, May 28 2013

Reality and Religion by Sadhu Sudhar Singh, 1924 are `meditations on God, man and nature' and is a compendium of Singh's observations and theological thoughts split into 27 short chapters in just 88 pages. A short book and an easy read. This book is not as good as Sadhu Sundar Singh With and Without Christ which was published 5 years later.