appeals to the Scriptures and the power of prayer to help you aid the suicide-prone person. This is an excellent publication to stem the trend of suicide being the third highest cause of deaths among adolescents and the second most frequent cause of death among college students in America.

BAPTIST STANDARD

What You Should Know About Suicide teaches the reader to notice signs of depression, hints and feelers put out by friends with desperate needs. Read- ers are not expected to become instant psychiatrists. but sensitive and under- standing persons who know when and how to be supportive and when and how to refer the distressed to professional counselors, also how to stand by distressed families...."

PROVIDENT BOOKFINDER

This concise and useful book should be used by pastors, counselors, and interested laity. The refreshing, nontechnical language also contributes to its appeal.

BOOKSTORE JOURNAL

This is an awareness raising book. It is a book that can help all of us become helpers of the endangered. Can you spot clues that identify a potential sui cide? What are some constructive methods of intervening! Where can one go for competent help? What does one do when someone you know contem pates suicide? How does one deal with one's own perplexed feelings about the suicidal person? Blackburn answers these and similar questions clearly and accurately. His treatment of prevention-obstructing myths is very inform ative.... Every pastor should read this book. Church study groups should use it. Every church library needs it. Everyone in the helping professions can ben efit from it. If read and heeded this book could be instrumental in saving thousands of lives, many of whom would be teenagers and college students Put this book on your must reading list this year.

SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL