THE DEACONESS AND HER WORK, by Sister Julie Mergner. Translated by Mrs. Adolph Spaeth. 200 pp., postpaid, 75c.

Recognizing its value, the "Conference of Lutheran Deaconess Mother Houses in America" requested its publication in English. The result was this splendid translation by Mrs. Spaeth and its publication in a substantially and attractively bound volume profusely illustrated. The book is in three parts. I.-Historical in which the beginning

and development of the Female Diaconate are traced.

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THE CONFESSIONAL PRINCIPLE AND THE CONFESSION OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH. 1094 pages. 8vo. Cloth binding. Price, postpaid, $4.00. By the Rev. Theodore E. Schmauk, D.D., and C. Theodore Benze, with translations from the Introductions and Writings of Theodor Kolde, Professor in Erlangen.

The Inner History of the Augsburg Confession is depicted from the original

sources.

Important Letters from Luther and Melanchthon are for the first time reproduced in English translation.

The Earliest Known Form of the Augsburg Confession, discovered several years ago in the archives at Nuremberg, is reproduced complete in English translation.

Seven Recent Essays and Works of Prof. Kolde, the Luther authority, are given in accurate translation.

The Relation of the Lutheran Church and Lutheran Doctrine to the Formula of Concord is depicted in full.

It thoroughly discusses the question from every point of view, whether the Melanchthonian view of Lutheranism is the one for the Lutheran Church America to assume in this Twentieth Century.

General Council Publication House

eral Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America. By 8. E. Ochsenford, D.D.

Fifteen Chapters, 588 pages, containing the Charter, Constitution and all important declarations of General Council. Historical Statistics, and miscellaneous information of the greatest value concerning the origin and development of the General Council.

Every General Council Lutheran will find this book a most useful handbook. Every Lutheran in America will recognize in this volume a book which will be informing and authoritative on historic and important facts which every intelligent Lutheran should know.

The work illumines the origin and preserves in permanent historical form the history of this great Church-body in America. No such thorough-going historical project has ever been undertaken in behalf of the General Council, and the book appears with the approval and the authorization of that body.

The Remarkably Low Price of $2.00 has been fixed so that the cost would interfere with no one securing so valuable a reference book.

HALLE'SCHE NACHRICHTEN, in two volumes.

The publication of the Halle Reports of Muhlenberg and his co-laborers was authorized by the Ministerium. They are, and will continue to be a most important work of reference.

The work is well printed and substantially bound. In order to bring the price within reach, it has been reduced from $10 to $4 for the complete set, or $2 for either volume.

THE INNER MISSION. A Handbook for Christian Workers. Properly illustrated. Cloth binding. Price, postpaid, $1.00. By the Rev. J. F. Ohl, Mus.D., Super intendent of the Philadelphia City Mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The Principles of Inner Mission Work are clearly stated and fully set forth.

The Inner Mission Work of the Lutheran Church is vividly pictured and fully summarized. Splendid for reading or systematic study.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, Weighed and Tested, By The Rev. G. W. Sandt, D.D., Editor of "The Lutheran."

Every Christian needs this book to fortify against this heresy and its many fanatical advocates.

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