Love Revealed - 263pages-$8.50
by George Bowen of Bombay
Missionary . Scholar . Mystic . Saint
Recommendation by David Wilkerson.

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Our first introduction to the writings of George Bowen occurred when browsing through old books at Smithfield Market, Belfast. Another book-lover paused long enough to engage us in conversation, and together we animatedly conversed concerning authors and titles. This aged saint and author recommended George Bowen as a writer of great spiritual insight. It was ten years later that we found George Bowen's book, "Love Revealed", in a Skid Row mission library in Chicago. The much prized book which was borrowed was eagerly devoured, read and re-read. We were loathe to part with such a mine of gold and so, ultimately, decided to reprint this long out-of-print volume to thus extend to others the rare opportunity for possessing those deeply spiritual meditations on the last words of the Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples.

George Bowen, a self-effacing missionary, labored from 1848 until 1879 in India without furlough. For some years he represented the Presbyterian Board but later took out membership with me Methodists in Bombay. He chose to be self-supporting, cutting off his salary that he might remove occasion from the heathen to impute the motives of gain which lucrative salaries afforded missionaries. The usual mission compound accommodation was exchanged for a humble, rented abode near the market in Bombay. Instead of making tents as Paul did, Bowen made books. He was editor of the Bombay Guardian for years, and his editorials, appearing there, were later collected to form three of his books, "Love Revealed", "The Amens of Christ" and "Meditations". We elsewhere submit a portion of an introduction, by Daniel Steele, which was written for the book, "The Amens of Christ" but is equally applicable to "Love Revealed". May God abundantly bless all who read.
EDWIN AND LILLIAN HARVEY

....All the books of Rev. George Bowen are strongly marked with his individuality. They are all meditations on the Holy Scriptures, exhibiting the same high literary finish; the same glowing love to God and men; the same freshness and striking aptness of illustration; the same vividness of conception; the same breadth of view, with power to discover the subtle, interior connections of thought in Scriptural exegesis; the same ability to illuminate a text as if an electric light had been suddenly hung in its very centre; the same scathing rebuke of a merely formal type of Christianity; the same revelation of the sunlit heights of assurance and cloudless communion with the Father and the Son, through the Holy Comforter; summits on which the author himself is manifestly dwelling.

In reviewing the many influences which have become factors in molding my own Christian character, I wish in this public manner to record my sense of indebtedness to this good man whose pen, guided by the Holy Spirit, has, for nearly a quarter of a century, under the sultry skies of India, been a skilful sculptor, conforming me to the image of the Son of God.
DANIEL STEEL
Reading, January 1886