Announcing: Here by Charles Francis Stocking

              1934
Announcing

First
THE GOLDEN EDITION OF
CARMEN ARIZA
By Charles Francis Stocking
THE 50TH EDITION OF THIS IMMORTAL BOOK IS NOW ON THE PRESS

Second
A LARGE REPRINTING OF
THE BUSINESS MAN OF SYRIA
By Charles Francis Stocking and William Wesley Totheroh
THE 15TH EDITION OF THIS VITAL WORK WILL BE READY IN SEPTEMBER

Third
A STARTLING PLAY HAS BEEN ADAPTED FROM
HERE
By Charles Francis Stocking
THIS GRIPPING STORY OF LIFE AFTER DEATH WILL BE SEEN ON THE STAGE THIS FALL

Fourth
ANOTHER LARGE REPRINTING OF
THE DIARY OF JEAN EVARTS
By Charles Francis Stocking
THE WORLD-WIDE DEMAND FOR THIS GREATLY LOVED BOOK HAS SENT IT INTO 30 EDITIONS

Fifth
THE 10TH EDITION OF
The IDENTITY of DOUGLAS BAIN
By Charles Francis Stocking
ACCLAIMED BY THOUSANDS AS THE MOST THOUGHT-COMPELLING BOOK OF THE DAY
THE MAESTRO CO.   CHICAGO


Sixth
A new novel of greatest import to humanity is now in progress by Charles Francis Stocking and will go to press this fall.

Seventh
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Timely, indeed, vivid and sure-fire, a novel of at times gripping interest.—
Chicago Examiner.


A notable contribution.  A rush of political incidents, extremely vivid as well as true to life.  No one can read this book without the revival of many personal reminiscences.—
American Issue.

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CARMEN ARIZA
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M.
ATREMENDOUS narrative, with a magnificent theme—a theme which, because of its vital import in this hour of world-crisis, seizes upon the reader with a grip that is unshakable.

THOUGH a narrative of gigantic proportions, set against a mighty background, South America and New York, with startling glimpses of Rome and the Old World—though redolent of the dripping jungle, vivid with tropical coloring, and burning with equatorial heat, the story of Carmen Ariza is one of the most daring things ever written—and at the same time one of the most beautiful.

WHO will believe that the same forces which, in this absorbing story, drove the black-faced Rosendo in flight with Carmen through the trackless jungle, are incessantly at work to-day?—in blood-soaked Europe, where the human mind's materialistic philosophies have externalized in hideous carnage—in liberty-loving America, where commercialism, entrenched ecclesiasticism, and material lust have dulled a nation's conscience—at our hearthsides, where we and ours dwell in a sense of fancied security, some day, perhaps, to be rudely shattered.

NO, we have not met her in our ceaseless daily round; but we might if—ah, it is that if which hangs before us, like the veil still untaken away, obscuring the brightest vision that ever dawned upon a sin-weary world.

MEET Carmen Ariza in this extraordinary story of her life.  And then, though the world welter in its own blood, go out into the highways of life and meet her among your fellow-men.  For she is there.

PRINTED on thin paper, with beautiful colored frontispiece of forgotten Simiti, where dwelt the girl Carmen Ariza.

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A tropical story in every sense of the word, with a South American background, full of tropical coloring, the dripping jungle, a story of strong passions, of strange adventures and psychological experiences.—
St. Louis Globe Democrat.


The book evinces every testimony that the author feels he has a distinct purpose in presenting this altogether entertaining and instructive volume and the sincerity of his thought is impressed in every sentence.—
Mercury.




THE BUSINESS MAN OF SYRIA
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M.
AND
WILLIAM WESLEY TOTHEROH, A.M., LL.D.
A reprinting of this invaluable work has been necessitated by the appeals of multitudes who cry:


Does death end all, or shall I live again?
Shall I ever see my dead child?  My parents, my friends, who have passed into the darkness?
Is there a God?  Can I know Him?  Does He know me?
Are the doctors right?  Are the priests?  Are the preachers?  Do the professors know anything that is really so? Does theology, with its sectarian quarrels, its persecutions in the name of Christ, teach truth?
Is there a heaven?  A hell?
Shall pain and disease ever cease?
Will old-age be ever overcome?
Will poverty, misery, and ignorance ever end?
Can I be happy, free from tormenting anxiety, from the dread apprehension of death?
Tell me—Oh, tell me!

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HERE
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M.
The story of a human experience—recall from death—such as has come to few.  A story that shatters the blank wall of death and transforms the feeble hope of immortality into a certainty.

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After reading HERE I shall never again fear death.—K. P., New York.

A book that strips immortality of all mystery, vagueness and awe, and subjects it to the rigorous tests of the laboratory with amazing success.—C. S., Chicago




THE DIARY OF JEAN EVARTS
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M.
IN this deeply appealing sketch of but a few days in the life of a young girl doomed by mortal laws the author has disclosed the concentrated need of mankind—and met it.

THE rarely beautiful story, redolent of the sun-kissed hills of California, is of one sinking in the last stages of tuberculosis, helpless, abandoned, betrayed by human systems, denouncing God and manmade creeds, and awaiting death.  To this one—so typical of the world—is brought a message not of man.  And with the message comes a new sense of life.

HOW this is accomplished is set forth step by step in fullest detail.  Nothing is left unexplained or mystical, and every effort at lucidity that language permits is adopted.

TO those hopeless of human aid this healing story comes as an angel visitant.  Upon those wandering in the darkness of human beliefs, struggling with the awful questions of evil, disease, misfortune, death, it bursts like a great light.

THOUSANDS of its readers, from all parts of the world, gratefully regard it as a second John the Baptist, pointing suffering humanity to where the healing waters freely flow.

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It is doubtful if any book written upon this subject is more detailed or explanatory.  Mr. Stocking is thoroughly acquainted with his subject, and he writes with the conviction of a man who, believing that he possesses the greatest of assets, feels impelled to pass it on.  Those who are on the threshold can do no better than to possess themselves of this volume.—
Chicago Tribune.




THE IDENTITY of DOUGLAS BAIN
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M.
DOUGLAS BAIN, son of a scholarly clergyman, isolated by his fear-filled father from contact with the world, educated to regard Intellect as the summum bonum, meets with a soul-shaking experience in the drab little village of Wallace Center in the Berkshires, to which his father had been assigned.

THAT experience revealed that he was bearing a false identity.  And it loosed forces within that threatened his destruction.  Vainly he and his frightened father struggled against them; vain was the influence of blustering John Wallace's adopted daughter; vain the tower of Intellect reared by the father; both father and son became submerged, the former sank broken-hearted before the menace of a heresy trial, and the latter wildly fled the village and lost himself among earth's unburied dead.

BUT a strange influence drew the boy sharply back from the abyss over which he hung.  Yet he turned against it.  And not until he had passed through a college experience startling in its revelations, not until he had sold himself into Egypt and had met again that strange influence in the person of a desert Welée, did he begin to recognize his true Identity.  This recognition could not but thrust him into testing experiences.  It sent him searching the laboratories of Science, the pulpits of Religion, the forums of Intellect.  Among the Bedouin he discovered Israel, but succumbed to La Dame Blanche and was sent a slave to Tripoli to toil for an Arab master.  Strangely released and brought to London, he encountered again the daughter of John Wallace—but sacrificed himself for her and went into Syria to draw from her and upon himself the powerful influence under which she was fallen.  Came then the sharp climax, with the discovery of the Chalice of Antioch and its vital bearing upon human destiny.

PRINTED on thin paper, with beautifully colored frontispiece of Syrian Antioch where the Chalice was found.

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For those who value personal and unsolicited comment rather than newspaper criticism:

That marvelous book, THE IDENTITY OF DOUGLAS BAIN!  There is not a day in which I am not reading your wonderful book!—E. de E., Vienna, Austria.




THOU ISRAEL
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M.,
A STUPENDOUS story, with a mighty spiritual theme, developed in a rare Syrian, Egyptian, and New World setting in a narrative as gripping as Carmen Ariza.

ALDEN CRAGG, a British subject hiding in America in the prophetic year 1917 to avoid conscription, is forced into the service by a girl of strangely different mentality, who saw in her daring act the only way to save him from certain destruction at the hands of those who were using him as the tool of suggestion.  Realizing the dire consequences of her too abundant zeal, she follows him to give her life for his.

A JEW, whom Cragg had mortally offended, likewise follows him to take his revenge in No Man's Land.  The blow falls before the girl can prevent it, and the victim is hurled into the vestibule of death, where he experiences a mental retrogression that carries him back through the centuries and reveals him a slave in Pilate's household in Jerusalem.  In his fearful efforts to obtain his freedom are brought out such tremendous lessons as are rarely given to mankind.  From death's threshold the girl recalls him—but it is a new man that returns.  Then she sends him back into the world, like a modern Dives—and follows at his call when, like Jacob of old, he has demonstrated Israel.

IN its vast scope, its rapid succession of highly dramatic episodes, its vivid interplay of absorbing plot, its strange revelations of the fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy, its startling treatment of death and what follows it, in its great uncovering of the forces actuating human nature, and, above all, in its divinely appointed message to a world now tottering under the consequences of its own evil ways, Thou Israel stands quite apart.

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The National French War Library considers it an honor to have your book THOU ISRAEL in its English language section of books.

—Le Secretaire General, Bibliotheque et Musee de la Guerre, Paris, France




MODERN PARABLES
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M.
The following review of this book appeared in the March, 1933, issue of Dawn, published in India.

Four prominent men, a Senator, a Professor, a Doctor, and a Financier go out to study world-conditions intimately in an endeavor to isolate causes and devise remedies of the misery so prevalent throughout the world.  Their findings are set forth in the form of stories of human experience.  These illustrate the fact that the malevolent springs are not to be found in material conditions but in human mentalities, and that they have a common source in a fundamental mode of human thinking.  Each searched till the conviction dawned that the causes of human misery are mental states, and that these states are the outgrowth of a single fundamental condition of the human mind, to which all the ills of human kind can be traced.

The Senator relates the story emphasizing the essential elemental element lacking in our religions and educational systems as a contributing cause of present world-misery.  The Professor throws a new light upon old-age and time and the effects which accepted opinion on these subjects produces in unemployment and wretchedness.

The Doctor's story is of a modern parent who gave his children liberty to express themselves fully in any direction.  By his daughter's revolt a train of events started which brings out with startling clearness a fundamental cause of present world-unrest.

The fourth story, which was told by a Financier after he had been extricated from a distressing business predicament, sets forth in brilliant illumination the most advanced thought on such vital topics as supply, business, and the achievements possible to labor.

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A book that should have a permanent place on the guest table in every home.—W. N., Chicago.

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