ANALYTICAL STUDIES IN THE PSALMS / By: Arthur G. Clarke / Foreword by: W.E. Vine / Preface by: Warren W. Wiersbe / Kregel Pubns, 1979 / Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780825423222 / 978-0825423222

ISBN-10: 0825423228

Printed in the USA

Pages 376

!!! Condition of Book is USED - VERY GOOD !!!

About the Author:

Arthur G. Clarke
was born on Christmas Day, 1887, of Christian parents in a small town near Bath, Somerset, England.
His first contact with assemblies was in his teens, on a train to London on which an earnest group of young people from Walthamstow, Essex, held a Bible reading in their compartment. Later he was re- ceived into fellowship and became active in the assemblies.
When both he and his fiancée, independently of each other, felt the call to China, they resigned their jobs to take special training. After two years of language study in different localities in Shantung, they were married at Weihaiwei on November 30, 1916, and took up new work a full day's journey inland. Mr. Clarke recalls: "We laboured in Eastern Shantung until the Japanese entry into the last war in December, 1941, first evangelizing, then as capable Chinese evan- gelists emerged in the assemblies, I concentrated more on teaching, seeking to establish the believers in the faith and ground them in 'church truth', for political changes-that might involve the with- drawal of missionaries-were felt to be imminent.
"Within a few hours of the Pearl Harbour attack I was under arrest by the Japanese gendarmerie. After suffering a gruelling third-degree examination I was put in solitary confinement for three months, followed by five months house arrest, shared by my wife. We were then transferred to Shanghai... Instead of the promised repatriation, we found ourselves interned in the large Lunghwa Camp until after the Armistice in 1945. Owing to a breakdown of my health we were at last repatriated to England by hospital ship in December, 1945.
"By the time health was sufficiently restored to consider going abroad again, China was closed to missionaries... It was at this disappointing juncture that an unlooked-for opportunity opened to go to Bermuda in January, 1951, to engage in a teaching ministry among the several assemblies."
The Clarkes' three children, all married, are active in the Lord's work. The eldest, Arnold, after being released from communist prison in China, is now serving the Lord in Western Thailand.

Foreword:

This comprehensive and useful volume is the result of much painstaking labour, wrought very largely under the exceedingly trying conditions of Japanese internment and restrictions during the Great War. In this world of evil and adversity the best things are produced amidst and by reason of the greatest trials. The brightest and best steel comes through the hottest furnace. The beauty of the pearl is the result of the bitterness of pain. The most gorgeous butterflies gain their freedom by means of a struggle through the thickest cocoons.
The greatest triumphs, the highest joys, the most transcendent glory are the outcome of the unutterable woes and judgment of Christ's sufferings on the Cross.
The pleasure and profit which the reader who delights in the Word of God will derive from the following pages, accrue to him by reason of a determination amidst trying experiences to serve the Lord and His people, with the help of the Spirit of God.
The studies contained in this book are more than by way of mere analysis. This unfolding of the designs and the instructions re- vealed in the Psalms in the various aspects of their contents, makes a valuable contribution to the exegesis of this portion of the Sacred Volume. It therefore affords the writer of this Foreword a very great pleasure to commend the work to servants of God. May these pages be abundantly owned by Him to the blessing of many.
Bath
W.E. VINE