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T. W. Chambers, D.D., Collegiate Reformed Church, New York, says : 

 " The plan seems to me both praiseworthy and feasible. I trust it will 

 meet with speedy and abundant success." 



Sylvester F. Scovel, D.D., First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh 

 Pa., says : 



"Your plans deserve a place in the category of moral reforms. The 

 foes'they meet, the width of the battle-ground they can be expanded to 

 cover, the manifold incidental blessings they may convey to thousands of 

 households, the national and international currents of thought they may 

 set in motion, entitle them beyond all question to prompt and efficient aid 

 from clergymen and the whole Christian Church." 



Ezra Abbot, D.D., LL.D., of Harvard College, says : 



" I heartily approve of your project. I shall be glad to receive and 

 commend the volumes to buyers. I send you my subscription." 



Thos. Armitage, D.D., Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, 



says : 



" Your plan is grand and philanthropic. I wish you success, and ask 

 you to put me down for one set, with the assurance that I will aid you by 

 every kind word which opportunity suggests." 



William M. Taylor, D.D., Broadway Tabernacle, New York, says : 



" The success of the plan depends very much on the character of the 

 books selected ; but if you are wise in that particular, as I have no doubt, 

 you will be benefactors to many struggling readers in whose experience a 

 new book is one of the rarest treats. I am glad to see, too, that you are 

 making arrangements with the English publishers, so that in conferring 

 a boon upon readers here you will not be doing injustice to authors across 

 the sea." 



James Eells, D.D., Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, O., says : 

 " From the reputation of your house I am ready to believe that you will 

 publish only worthy books. I heartily wish you success." 



E. J. Wolf, D.D., of the Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa., says : 



" A more laudable project 1 can hardly conceive of. Vicious literature 

 has long had the advantage in that it was put within easy reach of the 

 masses. The poverty of many who fain would use the very best books has 

 often distressed me. I feel in my heart that the noble enterprise of your 

 house is deserving of the most liberal encouragement." 



Bishop Samuel Fallows, Reformed Episcopalian Church, Chicago, 



says : 



"Your plan for supplying the masses with the best reading at such a 

 nominal price cannot be too highly commended." 



J. JL. Burrows, D.D., Baptist Church, Norfolk, Va., says : 



" Every endeavor to supersede poison by food for the people deserves 

 encouragement." 



Rev. W. F. Crafts, Lee Avenue Congregationalist Church, Brooklyn, 



says : 



"In the West they displace the worthless prairie grass by sowing blue 

 grass. The soil is too' rich to be inactive. It will have a right or wrong 

 activity. So about the love of reading in the young. It is prime soil and 

 will bear tall wire grass if we do not give it blue grass. It will have bad 

 reading, if the good, equally cheap and attractive, is not provided." 



