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SO. ~ie 6djtift ,,::t~eoIogie bet Otbnungen" ift in biefet ,(3eitfdjrift (1935, 6. 882) rtaenfiett rootben. :;5n bet 3roeiten, ttroeitetten ~uflage j'inb bie ~u§filf;tungen 6.34-39 vefonbets infttuftib. ~at bit Sfitdje ettva§ mit bet ftaaHidjen (qjefet" gevung, mit bet f osialen \},rage ufro. su tun? ,,~as bon bet Sfirdje berfiinbete ~bangelium .entf;iilt rein politifcl)eS ober foaiaIeil >.J.\rogramm." ~oet "aUerbings f;at audj bie Sfitdje dne saufgalie am @efet: tf;re mtttilnbigung foU bas @efet alil @efet @ 0 t t e s etfennen lef;ten, bas f;eitt, in feinem tabUaLen ~ r n ft e alil \}'othetung bet .\Jieoe 3U @ott unb bem 9ciidjften. . .. ~as @efet roirb alfo for me 11 ein anbetes li • ~lbet nodj mef;t! ,,~ie metfilnbigung bet Sfitd)e f oU 3U bem ~omgefet nicl)t nut for mel I, fonbetn audj mat e tie 11 bail ®ort ne~men. ~s ift nidjt feIbftbetftanblic{), bat bail moUsgefet bie in @ottes £)ffen~ varung gefetten ~otmen ilbetaU acf)tet: bie .\;leiligreit bes .\levens, audj bes fei~ menben; bie .\;leiligfeit bet IebensIiingHdjen ~inef;e; bie .\;logeit bes 6djBpfetS, bet aUein unfetm .\leven ,8iel unb @renae fett unb unil ben 6eIoftmotb roie aud) bit 556 Book Review. - mtetatut. (l'utljanafie, bie ,metnief)tung leoensunltletten 2eflens', betltleljtt. :!lie ,5l5etnunft' fann ljiet uberaTI untet Umftilnben bas (\Jegcnteil filt finnboTI nnb geboten ljaiten. @5ie oebatf ber ,ITtitH bom smotte (\Jottes 1)et," - Unb biefelUufgabe etfilTIt bie ~iref)e nief)t babntcf), bab fie .politifef)e unb j03iale ~togtamme auffteUt, fonbetn butef) iljte ~tcbigt nnb bie ~taieljung iljm (\J1iebet. D. Sl'iibet!es @5ef)tiftdjen "Sl'hef)!ief)e @5ellJftbefinnung nnb 2elJensgejta1iung" ift ein ?!lubtuf an bie Sl'iref)e. "SDie erfte unb ltlief)tigfte ~lufgaoe bet ~it.ef).e oleiDt bie @5elbftoefinnung bet Sl'itdJe aUf Me @tunblage iljtet 5l5etfilnbigung", aUf bas smefen bes ~\)ange1iums. :!las ift nief)t motalifef)e ?!lelefJtung (9Jlotalismus), nid)t ftim~ mungsboUe ~rljiilung bet @5eele (illcl)fti3iSmu§) unbauef) nief)t ?!leftiiti\Jun\J menfef)~ lief)et smeisljeit unb @51Jetulation (;sbeafismus). "smitb in bet .ptoteftantifef)en Sl'ird)e nief)t mefJr .ptoteftiett gegen bie aften unb mobetnen ?nerfiilfd)ungen bes ~bangeliums in bet eigcnen illCitte, bann ift bie Sl'itef)e bem Untergang na1)e unb ljat iljt ~nbe betbient./1 SDie niid)fte lUufgalJe bet Sl'iref)e ift bann bie 9)Hffions~ aufgabe, illCifjion im ltleitef!en @5inn. "smeil @ot! in (.£1)tifto bie smelt gelieDt unb mit firf) betfliljnt ljat, mub auef)1 bon bet Sl'ird)e G;fJtifti immet ltliebet ein @5ttom bet meoe unb bell @5egens in bie smelt fJineinf!tlimen." :!las, bie ~dennt~ niS unb bie medunbigung bes ~bangefiums, \1eftaltet bas S3eben bet Sl'itef)e. - small ift bas 'llleien bes ~bangeliums? :Daj] (\Jott in (.£1)tifto bie smelt geliebt unb mit fief). betfiiljnt !jat. smas aoet 15.14 iioet Mefe @5ad)e gejllgt witD, bedt ii.d) nid)t mit bet satisfactio vic aria. - SDet Sl'irdJe ltlitb dne falfef)e @5teUung 3u~ gefef)tieben in bem @5at: ,,@oUes @eilt ift fut uns nut faboat in feinem smort, im berletblldjten smott bes @5atraments, in be III ~ f) tift u s lei 0 bet @ e ~ meinbe" (15.17). ,,~itef)e unb @5taat nad) lutf)etiief)et S3eljte" iit in erweitetiet (,Beftalt bet mOt, ttag, ben D. ~Htf)aus am 4. ;suli 1935 aUf bem beutfef)en [ut!jeti\d)en :tag in '\dannobet ge1)aften f) at, "bas @lan3ftild bes futf)eti\ef)en :tages ll (lUUgemeine ~b.~ 2utlj. ~itd)en3eitnng). ~t ltleif! einestem foilloljl ben @5taat afS aud) bie ~itef)e in iljte @ten3en unb aeigt anbemteilS, ioie bie mtd)e in teef)tet smeiie bem @5tMt unb beibe bem molt Menen rlinnen unb follen. lUn bieiet 2ettion ljat audj bie ametifanijdje Sl'itd)e unb bet ametiranifef)e @5taat nod) immet au lemen. - "SDet @5taat ift in teinet miigtidjen @eitaft illCitteI bet ~tliifung obet lUnotuef) bes ffieidjes @ottes ll (rein SjUfsgnabenmittef, loie D. ~ie.pet es ausDtiidt), fonbem aUein smetf3eug @ottes Slit Cl:t1)altung unb Cl:ntfaftung Mefes itMfc!jen, iiinDigen 2ebens. ,,~ef)te Sl'hd)e witb fief) iingftlief) 1)uten, @5taat im @5taate au werben. . .. smidt obet btiidt fie aUf ben @5taat butef) bie 9Jtafjen, bie fie ljintet jid), lidngen tann, obet etwa burr!) i1)te \llhtfef)aftltef)e obex buref) ilJte intetnationafe @5tellun\1, bann ift iljre smitfung aUf aUe j}aue nidjt meljt eine 'litef)1idje, fonbem bie einet smelt< madjt; bann ift bie ~iref)e in biefet Sjinfief)t nief)t me!jt ebangeUfef), fonbetn tomiief). II ,,;sft bet @5taat :ttaget unb ~ffeget bes nationafen ~tlJos, bann ift et notwenbig au ef) ~taieljet. lUbet et ift nief)t e i n 3 i g e r ~taieljet. :!lie ef)tift!ief)e @emeinbe ift filt bie ~t3ie1)ung iljtet getauften Sl'inbet bot @olt berantwott!ief)." ,,~01t unb @5taat oebiirfen .es, bab bie naturfid)e mebe aus unetid)iipftem Quell emmert, geftcitft, gereinigt ltletbe." ;sn emftet @5tunbe ift bas smott gef.ptod)en: "lUfs (.£ljtif!en fef)ufben wit j e bet ffiegierung unb Otbnun\l, bie biefcn 9Camen 'nodj betbienen, bie ~ljte unb ben @e1)otfam, bet iflnen alS smetfaeug (,Bottes 3U~ tommt, ffiiim. 13; 1 ~etr. 2, 17. lUbet innetljafb befjen butfen ltlit Un t e r ~ f ef) i e b e maef)en. smit bitten in bet bietten ?!lHte mit 2utlJet um ,\1 u t ffiegi~ ment'.11 - ;sebes ~in3e1urtei1 tlinnen ltlit fteUid) nid)t unt.etfef)teioen, fo 3. j8. ntef)t bie :!lefinition bet ~itd)e: ,,~iref)e ift IU m t. Sl'itd)e ift @ e m e i n b e. Book Review. - 53itetatnt. 557 Ritd)e ift aIS beibes Illidlid) nur im ~ i t d) f n t u m.// ~us bem @5a~ //~as ganae moll ift i~t ['oer ~ird)e] anbertraut aIS .\'daufe ber @etauften// fj.ltid)t bie falfd)e lanbesfird)Iid)e ~nfd)auung. ~n 'oem ~rme! //!j5oIitifd)es ~~tiftentum// gefJt D. ~rtfJaus fd)arf ins @edd)t mit bem toUen mlafJn ber :tfJilringer //~eutfef)en ~fJriften//, bie in bem bentfef)en moH bas .\'deilSboH filr 'oie ganae mldt fefJen, bas @ott et1efen fJabe, //bet mleIt ben Illit:ntef)' erfiifenben ~ienft aU erllleifen, 3U bem fid) bis fJeute tein mort ber ~rbe fanb". ~s ift berfeibe ~ttlllafJn, ber ben 'oeutfcl)en ~bealismus CiYicl)te nflll.) bas geiftige @5,ef)idfal ber mlelt an bas @5ef)idfal ~eutfd)lanbs gefnilj.lft fefJen Iie%. ~n biefer merbittbung fommt ~ltfJaus auef) aUf anbere miilter 3U fj.lred)en. ,,~u.d) anbm miiUer fJaben ben mlerterliifungsanfj.lruef) erfJoben unb fid), aIS erlllafJ1tes molt gefilfJrt. ~ie ~nge1fad)fen fJalien ben lille1Hrieg ,ars ~reu3aug filr bie smenfd)~ fJeWlfaef)e ber iYreifJeit unb @mef)tigteit au filfJren gemeint.// Unb in feiner @5ef)tift ,,~ird)e nnb @5taat// (@5. 14) Illeift er barauf IJin, 'oa% "bas d)Htaftifd)e @5d)lllarmer~ tum", bas in biefer ~b,ee ber :tfJilringer j'tedt, auef) anbm ~reife ergtiffen fJat. ,,~et d)riftlief)e ~meritantsmus fafJ im miinerbun'oe bas :nafJedommen bes ffieicl)es @ottS; bet te{igiiife :nationalismus bet :tfJilringer ~eutfd)en ~fJtiften ma,d)1: ben ~nlirucl) bes ~titten ffieidJes SUt .\'deilSgefef)ief)te.// - ~ein mon, aud) nid)t bas beutfef)e, ift .\'deilSbo1f; "nief)t ein mon bringt bet lillelt ,ben ~rliifer unb, er1Bfte sm.enfd)en', fonbetn bie @emeinbe ~~fu ~fJrifti but.ef) ifJr ,8eugniS bon ~~fus ~fJtiftus//. llfbet bies ift lllafJr: ,,~e b e s titef)tige molt Iebt filt bie game ·smenfd)~ fJeW; un'o ~rtfJaus barf fJin3ufe~en: "bas beutfef)e molt fid)erlief) mefJr aiS manef)es anbm". :nod), ein et:nftes mlort: "Unfer molt Jiebarf filr feinen neuen mleg 'oer fd)Hd)ten @ 0 t t e s f u t d) t unfeter matet.// x fJ. ~ n g e 1 b e r. Decisive Days in Social and Religious Progress. By Ada Wright Leonard. The Abingdon Press, New York, N. Y. 155 pages, 5:t,4XS. Price, $1.50. This book contains five lectures by Bishop Leonard, formerly pastor of the American Methodist Church and instructor in the Italian theological school of the M. E. Church at Rome. The lectures were delivered at Chautauqua, New York, during the summer of 1934 and treat the follow- ing topics: The Present-day War Menace; The Danger Threatening Our Nation from the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment; Christian Edu- cation; the Recovery of Missionary Interest among Christians of To-day; The Need of Evangelism to Heal the Spiritual Perplexity Prevailing in the Churches Just Now. The lectures are well written, very interesting, and packed with vital information. Frequently, however, the writer in his judgments misses the mark. The reviewer was pleased with the author's positive emphasis on the need of frankly confessing our Chris- tian, Biblical truths. Here is a sample: "Some ministers in their social contacts as well as in their sermons seem to shrink from referring to Jesus as the Savior. They do not hesitate to discuss theories and philos- ophies relating to the social and economic order, but to lift up Christ as Lord and Savior, and without hesitation or apology, is altogether too rare. If the great affirmations of the Christian faith are absent from the preacher's message, what is left to meet the supreme need of men? In many quarters there is a fear of making a positive or categorical affirmation about sin or salvation from sin through faith in Christ. All of this has a paralyzing effect upon both ministers and people" (p. 141). 558 Book Review. - .\liteuttut. Such statements show that Modernism in the sectarian circles of our country is losing its hold on some ministers and laymen. But that the Bible is the sole source of the Christian faith is a truth which Bishop Leonard has not yet learned. He writes: "I am not unmindful of the danger in evangelistic preaching not based upon the facts of Ohristian experience" (142). So the Christian experimentalists spoke in Germany about half a century ago. To-day the German theologians representing the Bekenntnisk,reise speak differently. Let us hope that also the positive Methodists will turn from Christian experience to the Bible of God as the sole norm of their teachings. J. T. MUELLER. 9nnrtin 2ntl}er, bcr Benge nuf ber ~nn&d. Ilhtsgemnl)Tte qltebigten mit einem j}nfjtmiIe. ~nlm,et meteinsbudjl)nnblung, I5tuttgntt. 465 l5eiten 5 X 7%. qlteiS, in .\leinenflnnb: RM.5. IlIn biefem \Budje l)nben mit unfete l)eUe j}reube gel)nfJt unb gebenfen, audj in Sufunft es oft au gebtnud)en. ~ft bodj biefet britte \Bnnb bet ~nImet .\luti)er. ausgnbe eine SufnmmenfteUung bon fiinfunbbiet5ig nusgemiil)lten qlrebigten bel! illefotmntorl!, in 3molf @tullllen ge.otbnet: mom tedjten metftnnbniS bet ~emgen I5cl)tiftj mon ~i)tij'tul!, bem menfdW\DOrbenen .Il'iinigj mon ~l)tiftus, bem ~ei. lanb unb motbiThj mon ~l)tiftus, bem leibenben metfiil)nerj mon ~l)tiftul!, bem nuferftanbenen l5ieget; mom ~eingen @eift, bem IlInmnU ~l)rifti bel ben l5einen; mon bet O!fenbarung bes maters, bes l5ol)nes, bes ~eiligen @eiftes; mom m.lerben unb 2eben bet .ltirci)e im &;leHigen @eij'tj mon bet @emeinfdjaft bet j~itdje unb il)tem sttoft im m.lOtt; mom l5ieg ber .Il'irdje iibet 'nie Ilhtfedjtung; mon bet \Be~ mnl)tung bet .Il'itcl)e in bet m.le1t j mom m.lnt±en bet .Il'itd)e nUf bie moUenbung. ~ebe ~rebigt l)at il)re eigene itbetfdjtift, unb nudj bie betfdjiebenen steHe iebet qltebigt finb butdj befonbere itbetfdjtiften gdenn3eidjnet. lffiit Tiinnen freHid) nid)± nUe SZlnmerrungen untetfd)reiben, mie menn bet ~etnusgebet 3, \B. aUf l5eite 143 bemedt: ,,,&;loUe' bebcutet fiir bas @Inubenl!befenntniS 3unndjft einfadj ben Dtt bet stoten." \BefonberS mettboll ift bie bem \Banbe bOtnngej'teUte I/~in. fiil)rung ll unb i)ier mieber infonbttl)eit betetfte steH, ,,':Die \Bebcutung bet ~rebigt bei 2utl)er", be.m llIusfiil)tungen in jebet &;linfid)t oeljeqigensmert finb. ~. ~ . .Il' t e t man n. The Ancient World. A Beginning by T. R. Glover. The Macmillan Company, New York. 388 pages, 51,4X8. Price, $2.50. This is not an exhaustive history of ancient times, but a presenta- tion of its high-lights. It is, in effect, a philosophy of history presented in a very interesting, if not always a fully convincing, fashion. The author draws many parallels between ancient conditions and those of the present time, so that the ancient Greek and Roman and Carthaginian names again stand out in bold relief, often invested with a new meaning. The author possesses the happy faculty of being ahle to shed light on a subject by means of an epigrammatic saying, as, for example, in chapter 2: "A man may load his memory with all kinds of things and still be, as the English poet wrote- "A book-full blockhead, ignorantly bred, With loads of learned lumber in his head. There were no newspapers to tell what had not happened," etc. - The weakest chapters of the book are those on the Jews and on the Christian Book Review. - 2itetatut. 559 'Church in the Roman Empire, possibly on account of their brevity, possibly on account of certain misconceptions which make the reader think that the author is not exactly sympathetic to the Scripture account. For a brief review of the history of the classical ages of Greece and Rome the book will serve excellently well. P. E. KRETZMANN. World History. An Epitome, in Chronological Order, of Remarkable Events from the Creation Forward. By Robert Newton Waring. Fleming H. Revell Company, New York. 179 pages. Price, $1.75. The book contains nothing but dates, arranged chronologically on ll}9 pages, then alphabetically, beginning with the creation and ending with the inauguration of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935. It is a handy book to have, though it contains objectionable features. For a Christian it begins inauspiciously; the first "date" (left blank) is the "original creation, ages ago"; second "date" (also blank) a catas- trophe, at a remote period, in which the earth becomes a lifeless ruin, which accounts for fossils, petrified remains, and changes the axis of the globe. Then the renewal and replenishment of the lifeless earth is ,set in 4125 B. C. On the other hand, there are numorous positive state- ments; "1615, Genesis, initial book of the Bible, is penned by Moses." A great part of the B. C. section follows a strange chronology, different froni any I have seen to date. On the selection of dates for such a book no two persons will ever agree; yet it seems strange to omit Hammurabi, but to include the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; to omit the regnal dates -of Saul, David, and Solomon, but to state with astonishing conviction: "1072 David of Israel fells the Philistine giant Goliath." In justice to the author, however, it should be said that he has published another volume, Bible History - Genesis to Revelation (which I do not know) ; this volume therefore does not generally give dates from church history. In later ancient history and in the Christian era I have found the dates reliable as far as I have compared them. But the price of the book, in my opinion, is too high. THEO. HOYER. ~riends of Jesus. By Elsie E. Egermeier. The Warner Press, Anderson, Ind. 216 pages, 5% X 814. Price, $1.50. Miss Egermeier is well known in our circles ever since her Bible Btory Book became a welcome friend in thousands of our homes. In this llew book she treats the Book of Acts. We did not read the entire volume, ,but the chapters we did read again impressed us by the vivid and fascinat- ing style which is characteristic of the authoress. A number of inac- -curacies could be corrected in a later edition. On page 76 the authoress 'says: "When the believers spoke of their fellow-believers, they called them 'saints'; for these men and women had their hearts purified by faith in Jesus. Therefore they lived holy lives, as true saints do." 'The believers were saints not so much because of their sanctification, 'but primarily because of their justification. The introductory chapters are rather unsatisfactory. The total depravity of man should have been stressed to a greater degree, and it certainly is a misstatement to say, "God watched over them" (his earth-children after they had disobeyed Rim and had forsaken His Law), "and sometimes He saw some here and 560 Book Review. - ~itetntut. there who really looked to do right; always He would help such persons" (p. 17). On the same page we read that "God could not com€! down to the world of man, as He did at the beginning, to show them that He is very God." Here would have been a splendid opportunity to show that God did reveal Himself in the Word of the Bible. TH. LAETSCH. The' One and the Many. A Brief Calvinistic Contribution on the Amer- ican Social Probl£m. By R. J. Damhof. 32, pages, 5 X 7%. vVm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 0'0'., Grand Rapids, Mich. Price, 25 cts. Thel nature O'f this paper-bound booklelt is sufficiently chamcterized by its subtitle. In discussing the present difficulties in the social field, th€! authm explains at some length the relation of Calvinism to' the state. Some pa,ssages of real interest occur, as, for example: "The killing of millions of pigs and the plowing under of many furrows, of cotton has not been able to, 8O~ve the problem of the one and the, many. . .. From the doctrine, of individuaEsm and laissez fai1'e we, a,re gradually emba,rking intO' the sphere, of political aml governmental life, which advoca,tes more gov- ernmental and state interference." (P. 18.) Everyone who, is studying Calvinism in its pre,sent a,ttitude towa,rd the, Go'Vcrnment will find this booklet extremely illuminating. P. E,. KRETZMANN. ~iltgcgungene £itcrutltt. lI\]utf)ettum" fib: SU1Jtif bringt 3umSUnDcnien nn bas [albinjuliUiium cinen SUttifd fillet lI~riibeltiltatton" bon 5toIlins ~illJlmann lotnie ben @'5d)Tu~ bes SUt~ tifeHl fillet "martin ~ii!)let nlS lut!)etijef)er 5tf)eologc" bon SJ. ~.®ebcr. ~n ben ~fid)erbcj1Jtecf}ungen finnet fief) auef) cine ffic3enfion cines tnief)tigcn ~uef)cs bon 5tf)cobor mOB, ,,~1euorbnung ebangdijcfJcr ~ugenbarbeitu. F'Tom Fleming II. Revell Oompany, New York, London, and Edinbu,rgh:- Carry a Little Honey, and Other Addresses. By William O,'lando, Oarrington. 206 pages, 5X7%. Price, $1.75. From Wm. E. Eerdmans Publishing Oompany, Gmnd Rapids, Mioh.:- Three: Sixteens. Ten Sermons on 3: 16 Texts. By M. E. Dodd, A. M., D. D., LL. D. 146 pages, 5% X 8. Price, $1.00. NOTICE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 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