The Harvey Files, MOVE, Message of Victory

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Many of us have some sort of filing cabinet in our possession. We may be in the habit of filing away past letters especially if we run a home business. We file away past tax forms, legal documents, drawings and letters of our children when young—the list could go on and on. For a few of us, however, filing is more than a pastime—it is a business, you could almost say, an obsession. This was true of my mother, Lillian Harvey, who, over the years, built up a room full of filing cabinets in which were stored thousands of clippings, articles, and sermons from a wide variety of books and magazines. Years ago, when spending most of the winter in bed on account of severe bronchitis attacks, mother read avidly and began to set aside passages which would touch her heart. These she eventually would file away under topics, or by Scriptural passages, or under biographical headings.

Then, one day, she and her husband, Edwin, were reading together when several verses 12 and 13 from Psalm 48 struck them forcibly: “Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.” This seemed to them a word from the Lord especially for them—the towers, bulwarks and palaces represented the church fathers; reformers; missionaries; pastors; authors and martyrs of past generations. Edwin and Lillian were to preserve their stories, their exhortations, their examples for the present generation and generations to come. True, many readers might have heard of these saints, but only vaguely and some not at all. By compiling books from their files, Edwin and Lillian would be able not only to bless the reader with the quotations used, but introduce them to the books from which these clippings had been taken.

And so Kneeling We Triumph Vols. One and Two; The Christian’s Daily Challenge; The Royal Series; Soul Sculpture and many others were painstakingly compiled and printed and are still available in the Online Christian Bookstore of Harvey Christian Publishers.
–Trudy Harvey Tait

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Missing the Way, Patricia St. John, Missionary to Morocco

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Patricia St. John, author and former missionary to Morocco, is well known for her children’s books. Treasures of the Snow, Tanglewoods’ Secrets, Star of Light, to mention just a few, have been read and treasured in many Christian homes both in Great Britain and here in the USA. Patricia also wrote biographies and various other helpful devotional books.

The small book Missing the Way, however is less known and is published by Harvey Christian Publishers. In its forty-two pages, the author focuses on the statement found in Hebrews 3:19: “They could not enter in,” and covers a lot of ground. In seven short chapters, she brings to the readers’ attention six reasons why many of the Children of Israel forfeited entering into Canaan, their promised land: “Murmuring—The Sin of the People”; “Jealousy—The Sin of the Leaders”; “Unbelief—The Sin of the People”; “Pride—The Sin of the Levites”; “Spiritual Depression—The Sin of the Leader”; “Impatience—The Sin of the Leaders”, and finally ends with “The Remedy.”
Missing The Way can be found in Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Christian Bookstore.

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Let My People Go, Edwin F. Harvey

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Edwin F. Harvey, co-author of many of the books published by Harvey Christian Publishers, passed away December, 1983. After his death, his wife, Lillian, began collecting many of his editorials and articles as he was editor for many years of the periodical, The Message of Victory, published in Great Britain where Edwin resided for many years. This collection is called Let My People Go, which was the title of a series of articles which focus on the need of God’s people being liberated from many things which bind them and hinder their spiritual development. This book contains additional articles entitled: “Battle for the New Birth”; “The Holy Spirit, Lord, Alone”; “Godlessness and an Indifferent Church”; Mighty Works—Ours or Christ’s?”; Intercessors needed; “Signs and Wonders—True and False”; “Public Enemy Number One”; “Waiters Wanted”; “Satan’s Counterfeit plot”; “Membership in Christ Demands Holy Living”; “The Storm in Your Heart”; “Life by Crisis—Godliness by Process”; “Discriminate or Die.” Let me Go is available in Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Bookstore.
—-Trudy Tait

The compilations, Edwin and Lillian Harvey

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Compilations can be intriguing; compilations can be boring; compilations can be most helpful; compilations can be rather confusing; compilations can be off-putting; compilations can be awesome. It all depends on who did the compiling and what material was available.
The compilations published by Harvey Christian Publishers and available in their Online Christian Bookstore were put together by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. Years ago when living in the north of England, Lillian suffered severe bronchitis every winter which confined her to bed for days if not weeks at a time.

Never able to be idle, she read profusely from Christian magazines and books and marked and set aside passages which inspired her. Then, gradually, she filed away these clippings and soon amassed a great variety of material all neatly categorized under the headings: biographical, topical, and Scriptural. It is from these files that she and her husband began to compile books on prayer, suffering, the importance of the Christian home; humility, the Word of God etc. etc. These books have been a great blessing to many for in them a host of voices from varying time-periods, cultures, and denominational backgrounds, all focus in on the same subject, each adding his or her weight and experience until the reader becomes convinced that prayer is important; that suffering can be turned to blessing; that the Christian home should become the center of family worship; and that humility is the badge of every true follower of Christ.
If you go to the website harveycp.com you will find these books under the titles: Kneeling We Triumph Volumes One and Two; The Christian’s Daily Challenge; Royal Exchange, Royal Counsel, Royal Purposes, Royal Pilgrimage, Royal Insignia, The Call Back Series, and Soul Sculpture.

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Books on Prayer, Kneeling We Triumph

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We of Harvey Christian Publishers are proud to present seven books dedicated to the subject of prayer. We are aware that there are many books on this subject currently available on today’s market, but ours are unique in that they contain many voices from different time periods, cultures, and denominational backgrounds, all harmonizing to present the same message: prayer is essential to the believer; prayer links us to our Creator and Sustainer and is our veritable lifeline at all times, in all places, and under every circumstance.


Each of these seven books were written or compiled jointly by Edwin F. Harvey and his wife Lillian. Royal Exchange was the first to be published. It is a compilation and contains a reading for every day of the month. Kneeling We Triumph Volumes One and Two, soon followed. They are also compilations and each volume has sixty challenging readings on prayer. Then came the three-volume series How They Prayed which are biographical sketches illustrating how God’s children, some well known, some lesser known, have prayed in various types of situations and for a variety of reasons. The first volume deals with how family members prayed one for another. The second concentrates on pastors and preachers and their prayers for their congregations while the third tells of how revivals both at home and abroad were brought about through prayer. The last of these seven books is Asking Father, a book written for children to illustrate how God answers the prayers of boys and girls when they come to their Heavenly Father with their petitions.
All of the above-mentioned books are available in the Online Bookstore of Harvey Christian Publishers.
Trudy Tait

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