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GOOD, BETTER, BEST
The Three Ways of Making a Happy World
Classic Treatment of a Christian's Duty to the Poor
James W. Alexander with Introductory Note by Robert S. Candlish
This book presents J.W. Alexander's apologetic for the only proper way for the Christian to make a lasting impact upon the world around, especially those trapped in poverty and ignorance. He does this by telling a story of Herbert and Edith Lee, a brother and sister in the early 20's who have come to saving faith in Christ and who desire to do good to those in great need.
Herbert and Edith have come to live with their godly and wise uncle Dr. Lee, who is intent upon these sincere converts learning "by experience" the three ways of making a happy world. These may be classed under three heads: Good - Better - Best. The story is filled with wisdom as Herbert and Edith learn, often the hard way, that their uncle is right. You will follow them into the hovels of drunkards and gamblers and watch them as they seek to do good in the name of the Lord.
Anyone who desires to follow the admonition of Hebrews 13:16 will want to read this book. Anyone who desires to practice true religion as defined by James in James 1:27 will desire to read this book. Anyone who desires to follow the counsel of the aposles in Galatians 2:10, or the words of our Lord as reported by Paul in Acts 20:35 will want to get and read this book.
How do we reach out to the poor and homeless around us all? What is the very best way to do them good that will last beyond the moment? These questions and many more are all answered in GOOD - BETTER - BEST, a new-old title by the gifted and godly J.W. Alexander.
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I have great pleasure in complying with a request, on the part of the Publishers, that I should introduce this able Work to the British Public. It is something like presumption in me to commend a Treatise, on the subject of doing good, from the pen of DR. JAMES ALEXANDER. I do it because I have been asked. And I esteem it an honour to have my name thus associated with his.
Those who expect a lively story, or eventful narrative, with abundance of eloquent description and smart dramatic representation, will be disappointed in this book. It has a sort of plot; it has characters and incidents; it invokes the aid of entertaining dialogue. But the writer is too thoroughly bent on the illustration and enforcement of one single urgent moral topic, to be drawn away from it into the mazes of novel or romance.
Those, on the other hand, who look for mere argumentation, and a dry polemical discussion of a controverted subject, will be equally disappointed; for there is nothing stiffly and formally scholastic in the volume; it is free and flowing, as a fireside tale.
And this is its excellence. It treats of what vitally concerns the times. It discusses the question of doing good:-- How are the miseries everywhere abounding and increasing to be met and remedied? And it suggests the remedy, in such a way as to afford a plain and easily applied directory to every one who is willing to be, not showily, but substantially, of use to his fellows. Care for the body; care , still more, for the mind; care, above all, for the soul; such is the panacea here prescribed. And it is prescribed so pleasantly, and so practically, that none can well fail to be convinced, and all may well be moved to make trial of its efficacy.
-Robert S. Candlish, Edinburgh, November 1855
