Jesse Lyman Hurlbut Collection (12 vols.)

Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible, seems to me the best of the many books of the kind, and, as the fittest will survive, it will survive, as the mother’s textbook, for Sabbath afternoon; the children’s delight.

—James A. Worden, commissioner, Presbytery of Philadelphia

The titles of your chapters of themselves compel interest and will lead one on to the delightful contents. The illustrations are admirable. In these matters I prize my wife’s opinion more than my own, and she is particularly struck with these pages, and thinks that your Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible will be of great help to her in preparing for her Junior Endeavor work.

—Francis E. Clark, president (1887–1927), United Society of Christian Endeavor

If other children are like mine, you have done a good piece of work in the new book. The two to whom I have been reading the stories are aged four and six, and they are delighted with them and with the pictures also.

—Mr. Robert E. Speer, secretary, American Presbyterian Mission

It is magnificently gotten up and profusely illustrated. The stories are charmingly written, and will read themselves if you will give them a chance. In many homes it will go far toward solving the vexing problem of Sunday afternoon with the children.

—Marion Lawrance, general secretary, International Sunday School Association

The book is not intended as a substitute for the four gospels, but is designed to put into one connected and continuous story the complete biography of Christ. It will be found especially convenient by Bible school teachers. A feature of the volume which appeals to the children is the generous use of illustrations, of which there are over 200 . . . Most of the pictures are from photographs of Bible land scenes, which make the story all the more vivid.

—Book Review Digest

The condensed wisdom of one who has given years of study to the problems of the Sunday school. It is definite and thorough in its drill-work, and is comprehensive enough to touch all of the most important points.

—Christian Advocate

It gives directions for setting up the Sunday school and successfully conducting it.

—J. T. McFarland

The present volume is the ripened experience of a lifetime, and its every page contains wisdom combined with clear and convincing principles of organizing and building up a modern Sunday school. It is a book to put within reach of every Sunday school worker, and a pastor’s work in the Sunday school will be enriched by using it as a handbook of inspiration and methods. It is a good textbook for a Sunday school teachers’ meeting.

—Christian Intelligencer

This is a little volume for practical use in the narrower field to which the International Sunday School Lessons for the present year invite special attention. Dr. Hurlbut is an experienced guide in this region.

—The Presbyterian and Reformed Review

Dr. Hurlbut compresses much of the Old Testament history, enabling the reader by a little diligence to master it, and to understand the historic Scriptures as he never could understand them without grasping them in their wholeness and as a part of the system of revelation. Definitions, explanatory notes, dates, and Scripture references, with glimpses of contemporaneous history, are numerous, while the arrangement is progressive and systematic. It is a very useful compilation.

—Methodist Review

These selections are designed to foster the practice of daily household worship. For their adaptability, their uniformity of length, their diversity of selection, and their legibility, words of sincere commendation might be spoken. Dr. Hurlbut has performed a difficult task with much good judgment.

—Methodist Review

This volume furnishes a portion of the Bible for every day in the year. The passages follow the general current of Bible history, interspersing psalms where they belong, the whole being particularly suitable for devotional purposes. The work seems to be well done and doubtless there are those to whom it will be useful.

—The Presbyterian Review

The book is deserving of a place in every family and cannot fail to commend itself to all who will give it a trial, as a valuable help in conduction family devotions.

—The Reformed Quarterly Review

This volume is a superb one, so far as . . . profuse illustrations, of a high order of merit, are concerned. . . . But we are confident it will be welcomed by a much larger circle of students, and is worthy of very generally use; indeed, we recall no similar work of equal worth. It combines Bible geography and history, and covers the whole period of sacred history from the earliest period to the present date. It will prove an invaluable aid to every pastor, Sunday school teacher, and Christian student.

—Homiletic Review

If every person who has been helped and inspired by the activities and influences inspired by the activities and influences represented by the word Chautauqua were to read this book it would become a ‘best seller.’ . . . Dr. Hurlbut has been intimately connected with Chautauqua during practically all of its history and is thoroughly familiar with its aims, methods, and accomplishments. He tells the story with skill and lightens up, with many an amusing anecdote, what might very easily have been a mere catalog of names and dates. . . . It is a record of no small achievement that is here set forth and it is worth recording.

—Auburn Seminary Record

Mr. Hurlbut has not burdened his readers with documentary details, but has aimed to tell his story in an entertaining fashion. In this he has so far succeeded that one is loath to lay down the volume once he has taken it up. Anyone who has ever been to Chautauqua or benefited by the work of that great institution will read this book with pleasure, and others, who know only the name, will be truly amazed at the almost miraculous power for growth that the first idea had.

—The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association