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Q!nurnrbiu ilnbe leidjt dU ne!jmen. ~a Ieme nun aus bem 2eiben beines ~eiIanbes, tuie greuIidj in @oties ~ugen bie 6iinbe ift unb tuie furdjtbar fein .8omgeridjt entbrennt. tuomit er bie 6iinbe !jeimfudjt. ~enn unbenfeinb unb @Su!jner tuollen iuii!jlen', ja, dum @Suljner beiner @Sunbenfdjulb. @So ljat es ber ~eiIanb feIbft gefagt, baB er gebe fein 2eben BU einer laeBaljlung fUr biele. Unb fo ljaben es uns bie ~I'ofter unb fdjon bie ~rol'!jeten burdj ben ~eiIigen @eift gebeutet, baB iuir an ~!jrifto bie @tIiifung !jaben burdj fein laIut, niimlidj bie !8ergebung ber @Sunben. stroft unb @rquiclung fUr aIle tuunben @eiuiffen, fUr aIle fdjuIbbebrfrclten @Seelen, fUr aIle bor stob unb ~iiIle aitternben .\)er~ aen ift ljier au finben. m!eiI @otte~ @Soljn unfdjulbig litt, barum follen tuir @Sdjulbigen je~t nidjt meljr Ieiben, tuas tuir berbient ljaben, fonbem ftei fein, gana ftei unb fUr immer lrei bon aller !8erbammnw. @So fdjaue im @Iauben aUf bie m!unben unb 6triemen feines 2eibes unb auf bie ~ngft feiner @Seek ~us einer Eiebe, bie aIle~ ~enfen iiberfteigt, !jat er ba~ alles fteiiuiIIig auf fidj genommen, um burdj ein £ll'fer in @iuigfeit au bollenben, bie ba geljeiIigt tuerben. m!eldjen @Segen iuirft bu !jaben au~ ber laetradjtung ber ljeiIigen ~affion ~@fu, tuenn bu aus bem ~ammer unb ber Wot beines .\)eraens aUf iljn bliclft unb fingft: ,~Il' @Sunb' ljaft bu geiragen, fonft mUBten mir beraagen. @rbarm' bidj unfer, gib un~ beinen 3'rieben, 0 ~@fu I' " 3'. ~. Book Review. - 2itercttur. Biblia Hebraica. Adjuvantibus A. Alt, G. Beer, J. A. Bewer, F. Buhl, J. Hempel, F. Horst, M. Loehr, O. Procksch, G. Quell, W. Rudolph, cooperante A. Sperber. Edidit Rud. Kittel. Textum Masoreticum curavit P. Kahle. Editio tertia, denuo elaborata. Liber Genesis. Praeparavit Rud. Kittel. 79 6eiten 6%X9%. Liber Jesaiae. Prae- paravit Rud. Kittel. 93 6eiten. !l!tibHegiette ~iitttembetgifd)e !8tbel~ anftalt, 6tuttgatt. ~n !Jlt. 2 biefet .8eitfd)tift, 6. 154, etlll1i~nten Illit bie ~etbottagenben met~ btenfte be~ filralid) b.ctftotbenen !l!tofeffod lRubolf Rittel um bie ~ebt1iifd)e !8tbel unb bemetften, bafj eine neue ~u~gabe in motbeteitung fet. 6eitbem finb nun Book Review. - .l3itetatut. 393 bie beiben etften .l3iefetungen biefer neuen ~u~gabe, &enefi~ unb ~efaja~, er~ fd;Jienen. ilie weitmn ~eile be~ ~lten ~eftameng foUen in furgen ~bftiinben folgen. ilag !!Bed tritt in boUfommen neuer &eftart bor bie ge1e~rte !!Belt, iiufledid;J fowo~1 aIg aud;J fad;Jrid;J. ~in etwa~ grilflere~ iYormat ift gewii~lt wor~ ben mit grofleren ~\Jl>en, wa~ ein grofler mortei! ift. ~g ift jet}t entfd;Jieben bie fd;Jonfte ~ebriiifd;Je !Bibe!, bie id;J fenne. iler fritifd;Je ~l>l>arat ift ber ftberfid;Jt wegen in gwei ~bteilungen 3er1egt, f 0 bafl man Ieid;Jt blofle marianten unb wid~ lid;Je ~e~tiinberungen unterfd;Jeiben fann - ebenfaU~ fe~r bortei!~aft. mor aUem aber ift bet mafforetifd;Je ~e~t in bet iilteften meid;Jbaten &eftart batgeboten, unb Rittel ~atte babet ben aud;J aUf bem ~itelb1att genannten &ele~rten, !l\tof. !l\auI Ra~le, ~etangegogen, beffen iYotfd;Jungen, iYunbe unb @"ntbed'ungen wii~tenb bet Iet}ten ~a~tge~nte jet}t bie iiltefte unb genauefte ~e~tgeftalt milgltd;J mad;Jen. ilall lJlii~m batUbet fagt in bet morrebe Ritter feIbft unb ein aweite~ mOtWOtt bon Ra~le. ~ll witb nun ein fo genauet ~e~t be~ ~lten ~eftament~ batgeboten, wie et fonft nod;J nid;Jt moglid) war. ~in ·morteil ift aud;J, bafl man nun bie einaelnen !BUd;Jet einae1n betommen fann. .13. iY U t b r i n g e r. How to Understand the Gospels. By Anthony O. Deane, M. A., Vicar of All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, and Hon. Canon of Worcester Cathedral. Harper & Bros., New York and London. 212 pages, 5 X 8. Price, $1.50. It is to be regretted that a book as useful as this one for informing people on the present status of Gospel criticism should be vitiated by rejection of the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures and the assumption of errors in the sacred narrative. The author does not wish to be classed as a Modernist; but he thinks, for instance, that Matthew did not write the gospel which bears his name and that even in the speeches of Jesus which he admits Matthew wrote "misunderstandings may occasionally have colored a sentence" (p.112). On the other hand, he believes in the deity of Christ and defends the doctrine of the virgin birth of the Savior. In a way, this work supplements Dr. Streeter's large book The Four Gospels, which appeared in 1925 and has been hailed as the standard work on the subject in the English language. Our author is more conservative than Streeter and is frank to criticize him in several important points. The book opens with two chapters of a general nature, entitled "The Birth of the Gospels" and "The Source of the Gospels," The chapters which follow take up each Gospel separately. In discussing the situation in which the gospels arose, Canon Deane says: "The Church had been in existence for a whole generation before the earliest of our gospels was written. It was the Church which brought the gospels into existence, not the go'spels which brought the Church" (p. 15). The last sentence is very misleading. It might produce the impression that the Church created the gospels. In fact, that is the opinion many critics to-day express. The truth of the matter is, of course, that, while the Church was in existence before the gospels were written, it owed its existence to the very message which the four gospels have preserved in writing. In the chapter on the sources of the gospels, Canon Deane criticizes the two-document hypothesis, namely, the view that Mark and Q (Quelle), or the Logia, formed the sources which Matthew and Luke used in writing their gospels. He likewise criticizes the four-d,ocument hypothesis of Dr. Streeter, according to which there 394 Book Review. - 2iteratur. were two other sources besides Mark and the Logia, namely, one each for Matthew and Luke. He next gives a brief account of the hypothesis which since the war became prominent in Germany and which is based on what is called Formgeschichte. Our author characterizes it thus (p. 34): "This method holds that there were current in the first days of the Church, tradi- tions of our Lord's teaching grouped according to subject and form; one group of His apocalyptic sayings, another of His practical exhortations, etc., and that these groups of sayings, originally collected for oral teaching, are the main material of the written gospels. The critics of this school seem as yet to be considerably at variance among themselves, and their views have not gained many adherents outside Germany." Quite correctly he says that the weakness of this method consists in attempting to lay down "impossible rigid rules of form" (p. 35) . In his view the solution of the so-called synoptic problem will probably be found in the "multiple-docu- ment" theory, which holds that "Mark, Matthew, and Luke alike were based on some of the many earlier gospels or fragments of gospels to which St. Luke refers in his preface" (p. 37 ff.). Likewise in the chapters which are devoted to a discussion of the separate gospels a wealth of interesting and instructive information is spread before the reader. The book confirms the view that the two-source theory, which repeatedly has been proclaimed the grand modern achievement in the field of New Testament scholarship, is now on the defensive and may soon be generally discarded. The above account, with its quotations, will suffice to show that we are here dealing with a useful book. But whoever reads it should not forget the caution implied in the first sentence of our review. W. ARNDT. Vision and Authority. By John Oman. 352 pages, 8X5%. Harper & Brothers, New York & London. Price, $3.00. The Bible through the Centuries. By Herbert L. Willett. 337 pages, 8%X5%. Willett, Clark & Colby, Chicago & New York. Price, $3.00. These two books, fair specimens of the voluminous literature put forth in the present world-wide assault upon the authority of the Bible, will benefit the Bible Christian in that they disclose, in all its wretchedness, what is offered us in place of the Bible. The book of Dr. Oman, of Cam- bridge (which possesses great literary excellence), is aimed primarily at the authority of the Church. "The old external authority of the Church is a halting-place we have in God's wise providence long passed." And that is well. But along with the authority of the Church the authority of the Bible must be cast overboard. An infallible Scripture, in his opinion, needs an infallible Church; else the controversies engendered by the principle "Thus saith Scripture" would be unlimited. (182 f.) Both must go. "The teacher of divine truth will not care to stop with author- ities either of the Church or of the Scripture's." We must no longer "draw doctrines from Holy Writ like legal decisions from the statute book." And Christ Himself must go. "Christ never sets Himself as the absolute external authority of the perfect truth in opposition to the im- perfect authority of the finite and sinful spirit within." "Even Christ Himself is not our Rabbi. Even He does not demand from man uninquiring acceptance of His verdict." Then what is to be our authority, our guide, in place of the Bible, in place of Christ speaking through the Bible f Book Review. - £.literatur. 395 "Christ encourages His disciples to rise above the rule Oof authorities and to investigate till each is his own authority." The greater part of the book is devoted to exalting this new a.uthority along the lines familiar to the reader of Gen. 3, 5. "Christ never Ooffers a. word Oof Scripture as a final reason fOor belief. His final appeal is always to the heart taught by God." "Exclusively He addresses Himself tOo the primal spiritual author- ity in man - the spiritual vision, which discerns things spiritua.l." This "ultimate divine authority which speaks in our own hearts" knows nothing, of course, of Christ's redemption. All it sees is "that God's will is love and God's goal freedom"; it "rests Oon the universal grounds of truth a.nd hOoliness," "whilst humility, kindness, patience, love, are radiant in the open vault of a heaven cleared from cloud and storm-rock." Thus man's own Pelagianistic thoughts are set up as the supreme authority, the guide to salvation, and, besides, full scope is to be given to man's untrammeled fancies despite the restriction implied in the phrase that the heart must, of course, be taught by God. The a.uthor has chosen his title VISION and Authority advisedly. His idea of an authority is thus expressed: "The true pope and ambassador of heaven sits, not in Rome, ... but in heavenly places, seeing visions and dreaming dreams." We are not ready to found our faith on anything so unsubstantial as dreams. Luther warns us against those spirits who "would teach us to sail ou the clouds and ride upon the wind" (XX, 203). They are bound to be wrecked. Dr. Oman himself pla.inly tells us that, if we would embark with him, we must leave the Biblical religion behind. "As for the orthodox scheme of divine salva- tion, it is not convincing to the intellect or the conscience or the heart and may even arouse the active opPOositiOon of all three to what is at once a niggardly display of God's goodness and a shuftling with the stern facts of individual responsibility" (239. 233): Professor Willett, of the University of Chicago, sets out to tell, in simple language, "the whOole fascinating story: how the Bible came to be; its a.uthorship; its inspira.tion; its great personalities; the place of the Bible in the life of to-day." (Publisher'S note.) The real purpose of the book is to do away with the authQrity of the Bible. He hastens to tell us Oon page 3 that "the Bible is not a perfect book. The fact that it is the product of human hands and human minds would be sufficient reason for such a conclusion." Indeed, "the Bible claims its own inspiration," p.280; but on page 284 he tells us that "the doctrine of verbal inspiration has been discarded as incapable of proof and incompatible with the evident facts." Consequently "the Bible is nOot a fina,l and infallible guide to conduct," and they are in error who "affirm that the seat Oof authority is to be found in the Bible." Then who is to be our guide to salvation! We are again directed to Dr. Oman's erratic pilot: "This makes it evident that the authority which we recognize as truly present in the Biblical record does not inhere in the Book as such. But rather it is found in the appeal which the Scripture as a whole makes to the moral sense within humanity. It exercises that power by the sheer fOorce of its appeal to all that is best within men." , "There is no closed circle of divine revelation. God is ever speaking to the race through the stern lessons of history, through the mutatiOons of human experience, and through the lives of choice and elect souls who perceive more fully than their fellows the vision 396 Book Review. - 53itetatut. of truth." .And the voyage of Dr. Willett. ends, as does that of Dr. Oman, in total shipwreck. The best he can say of Jesus is that He is "the exhi- bition of a normal, perfect human chara.cter." Much of what Dr. Oma.n says, as on the arrogant claims of Ca.tholicism and on the needs of the Church, is worthy of note. If one could only forget the background! Professor Willett's book also contains much useful information on the Bible - but also the usual misinformation put out by Higher Criticism. - What a repellent task these men have to perform: to write "a. fascina.ting story" on the Bible, on a book which is the greatest fraud of history! And what an impossible task! They have to show up the fraud, to show that the cla.im of the Bible as to its inspiration is fraudulent, a.nd then must demonstrate that this unholy book brings out the best that is in man! TH. ENGELDEB. Some Exponents of Mystical Religion. By Rufus M. JO'IW!s. The Abingdon Press, New York. 231 pages, 5%X7%. Price, $1.50. Dr. Jones is a Quaker clergyma.n and is Professor of Philosophy in Haverford College. To his Quaker connection may be attributed the merits as well as the weaknesses of his treatise on mysticism. .As defined by him, the mystical experience is one through which the mind "comes into imme- diate contact with environing spiritual reality" (p. 17). It is what Dr. Bucke called "cosmic consciousness," that higher consciousness by which "a. person breaks through the veils and husks of the universe and comes into living experience of the inner heart of things" (p.180). As those who have ha.d this experience, Dr. Jones registers the names of Jesus, St. Paul, St. John, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, St. Francis, George Fox, and also Plotinus, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jacob Boehme (p. 81 f.). The author makes clear his belief that matters of creed, or doctrine, do not enter into the question of mysticism. When Luther, for insta.nce, begins to stress belief, - the belief "th&t the use of sacred words, the performance of certain acts, the acceptance of menml attitudes and positions are bound to work desirable results upon the destiny of the soul," - he is no longer in the field of mystical religion (p.148). The influence of medieval mystics on Martin Luther is set forth in detail, <hough Dr. Jones has missed some expressions of Luther which practically repeat the sentiment of Meister Eckhart which he quotes with such approval (p.98 and else- where): "Though God should tell him mouth to mouth, 'Thou shalt be lost forever with the damned,' he only loves God all the more a.nd says, 'Lord, as Thou wilt tha.t I be damned, damned I will be eternally.' Tha.t person can truly say to God, 'I love Thee.''' Plotinus comes in for a large share of attention as the ideal mystic. Naturally, an author who can place upon one level of experience Jesus Christ and the Alexandrian philosopher, also Buddha. and Walt Whitman, does not view reality from the level of Christian belief. That the true spiritual insight is gra.nted by God's Spirit to those only who have entered into communion with God by faith in Jesus Christ is a thought quite foreign to this treatise. Indeed, Dr. Jones specifically denies that the mystical experience is "something which is granted to a few fa.vored souls by a special act of the grace of God" (p. 34). He admits that "with the Augustinia.n" - why not Pauline t why not Christian t - "conception of man as lost, fa.llen, ruined, depraved, Book Review. - S3itetaiut. 397 and utterly devoid of spiritual quality that supernatural view is the only one that could be legitimately held" (p.84). We cannot see that the posi- tion taken by Professor Jones, though apparently it cuts straight across the materialistic world-view, is closer to the spirit of Christianity tha,n the materia.listic scheme. Though he seems to shrink from the pantheism which crops out in the representatives of mystic philosophy, he accepts pantheism in those very quotations which to him express the culmina,tion of mystic experience. And pantheism, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, is a painted atheism. TH. GRAEBNER. lIl'an :In the Making. By Okarles M. A. Btine, Ph. D., Bo. D., and Milton H. Btine, Ph. D., D. D. The Lutheran Literary Board, Burlington, Iowa. 145 pages, 5X7¥.!. Price, $1.50. Here is another book in the growing number of monographs in apolo- getics devoted to the refutation of the untenable theory of evolution and the false deductions drawn therefrom. It is clear that the authors are Fundamentalists, whose interest is that of preserving the truth of Scripture against the claims of science falsely so called. Statements like the follow- ing are especially valuable: "The primary object of the Bible is the pres- entation of the redemptive plan for man, and the succinct Biblical account of creation merely states in the briefest terms the origin of the present order and points out God's authorship. One thing should be definitely understood; it is this, - there can be no conflict between true science and the Bible. The inspired Word of God can present only facts, and true science, when it has arrived at the nature of the facts in the case, can arrive at no other facts than the ones which the Bible presents" (p.25). "The story of the redemption and of God's plan to restore His fallen crea- ture, man, to proper relations with Himself, constitutes the vital fabric of the whole Bible. It is well that the Christian should recognize the import of these theories and the implications of the deductions from them. A theory which eliminates God from the creative process gags and manacles Him and leaves man the helpless victim of the blind workings of a mechan- ical universe and is a terrible exchange for the personal love of an omnis- cient Creator manifest in a Redeemer and holding forth the promise of the fruition of man's spiritual and intellectual possibilities in a glorious eternity" (p. 81). It is to be deplored that the authors have not reached the full clearness of a true Lutheran understanding of the factors involved. They hold that the breath of life which God breathed into man at the creation was the spiritual life which man then forfeited again in the Fall and which the Holy Spirit reimparts in regeneration (p. 43 f.). They make a strange concession to evolution when they refer to a new cycle in the existence of our planet, stating that this cycle has continued for thousands of years (p.45). They trace the origin of Satan to "that dateless epoch which ex- tends from the beginning untn the earth was made void and darkness was upon the abyss" (p. 54), not realizing that this conflicts with the state- ment that God looked upon "everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1,31). They are not clear about the Messiah's activity in the Old Testament inspired Word (p. 55). The entire last chapter, "The Life to Come," is filled with chiliastic ideas. It is a pity 898 Book Review. - SJitetatut. that these misleading statements mar the presentation. Perhaps they could be corrected in a second edition, for the championship of the Bible appear- ing in these pages is decidedly invigorating. P. E. K!tETZMANN. Hartin Luther as a Preacher. By H. J. Grimm, A. M., Instructor of Europea.n History, Capital University, Columbus, O. 136 pages, 5%X7%. Cloth. Price, $1.50. Order from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. In this interesting and instructive monograph, Professor Grimm pic- tures the great Reformer from a viewpoint which is often overlooked, namely, as a consecrated, epoch·making Gospel-preacher. Though the work is composed iu a popular style, in which the author happily succeeds in "humanizing" Luther, yet it is based on the best and latest research work which German and English scholarship ha.ve produced. The matter is treated in four chapters: 1. The Preacher; II. The Preacher's Audience and Problems; III. The Preacher and His Homiletics; IV. The Preacher's Sermons. A close study of these chapters will explain to the modern student of Homiletics many of the peculiarities of Luther's preaching. If the sermons of the Reformer, in some respects, appear to us strange and unconventional, it is just because they were so deeply rooted in the needs of his time as well as in his own mission as the restorer of the Gospel. Luther's forte in preaching consisted hi this, that he so admirably expounded to the people of his time the pure Word of God, with proper distinction of, and emphasis on, the Law and the Gospel. In this respect he was the greatest preacher of the postapostolic age, whose sermons deserve constant and painstaking study. We deeply appreciate the fact that at this time Professor Grimm puts in our hands a book which calls attention to the value of Luther as a preacher and which is worthy of the great subject it treats. J. T. MUELLER. Dr. theol. et phil. lil1nttliuB !llugnft !lBilftlti. !!ln~ ben :tageblld)ern eine! ebattgelifd)en ~fanet!! (Otium Kalksburgense). !!In!ma~l au! ~nnbert !8linben ~etan~gegeben anf }8etanlaffnng ftiner }8ere~rei nnb t1reunbe mit beffen !Bitbnill. Siltitte !!luffuge. SDrnit nnb }8edag bon c,t. !Bettel!. mann, &iitet!!lo~. 1923. 294 6eiten 5XS. lillntelinli.l !!ngnft IlBUftltB, Otium Xalksburgense. .Bmeiter :teiL ~ine neue !!lullma~r, beforgt bon 0 t t 0 SJ e t d) e. Silrud unb !8edag bon 1£". !8ertelllmann in &llterJlo~. 1928. 231 6eiten 5%X8, in ~einmanb mit &olbtitel gebnnben. ~teill: M.5; gebunben: M.6.50. ~ll ift tin eigenartigd !!Bed, ball in biefen beiben !Bdttben borliegt, bon benen ber erfte itt lJer~dltngmiiliig fuqer .Bdt brei !!luffu\lett edebt ~at, mie eben aud) bet ~ann, bon bem ball !!Bed ftammt, eigenatti\l mat. !!Bilfenll ent. ftammte einer aUen, angefe~enen ~atti3ietfami1ie in !Bremen, ftubiette ~~eologie, mat dma 3manaig ~agte lang ~fatret, erft itt !!Bien, bann im ~aag, unb amar an reformieften &emeinben, obwogl et in feinet :tgeolollie fonft SJutgeranet mar,- 309 fid) lJieranf inll ~tibatleben aurllcf, wall feine !8et~/iltniffe i~m edanbten, nnb lebte nod) liber brei&ig ~a~re anllgebegnten uub einbtingenben 6tubien, fii~rte dne grojie Ronefllonben3, beriiffentlid)te unttt attbetn 6d)riften liber ben ~roteftantillmu!l in 611anien, liber ben mittelalterlid)en 6d)olaftUet !!lbdlatb, Book Review. - £itetatur. 399 Ubet ben lutl)erifd)en %l)eo{ogen ~eMufiu~, Ubet bie grote unb ftomme i5angerin ~enn\l mnb, dne l)iid)ft anaiel)enbe, roiebedJOtt in unfem fallittern emllfol)Iene faiogtnlll)ie, unb mat lJRitatbeiter bet "llIl!gemeinen ~\}."£ut~. 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Ill. !molf Ilemettt: lJRan mUfl nid)t hurd) Rodjen fUr anbere fid) um bie eillene lJRal)heit bdngen." ~n feiner ,3utfidgeaogen' l)eit in Ran~butg bei !mien mad)te et eingel)enbe %agebud)anhetd)nungen, im ganacn {!Unbert falinbe, bon benen jeoet droa breil)unbett @5eiten ftad roar, fd)iin unb fauber gefdjtieben, Ubet affe!!, roa!! et la~, ftubiette, beobad)tete, erful)r unb beurteilte, uno auii biefer, bon il)m fe!bft "Otium Kalksburgense" genannten stageoudjfammlung finb bie bodiegtnben llIu~3lige gemad)t, eine gana trftaunlid)e lJRenge getftbofier, llrigineller, fd)arfjtnniger, oft ungemein treffenbet nnb Uber. tafd)cnber, mand)mal al!erbinglll aUd) fe~r anfed)tbam faemedungen fiber bit berfd)iebenften ~erfonen unb mannigfaltigften @egenftlinbe, in benen jebet etma:!! nnb mand)e biel finben merben, menn man aui£) bebauern muf;, baf; e~ bei hem metfaliet nid)t au mel)t anfammenl)iingenber, fl)ftematifd)er IlIrbeit getommen ift. ~r fdjeut jtd) aui£) nid)t bOt fd)arfen Utieilen unb merurteUungen, aum faeifl'iel fiber @5d)leiermad)er unb lRitfd)l. Uub tl)ie aUf bem @ebiete bet %l)eolog1e, fO ift et aud) in roeltnd)er !miffcnfd)aft, £iteratur unb Runft au ~cmfe. mlit l)aben unll bide tteffenbe llIu§f!>rud,Je noUert, fBnnen fie aber nid)t abbruden. !mit laffen nur feine llIu!lfage uber ben in aUefel: nnb neumt ,3eU oft berblidjtigten, aoer in !mal)r~eit frammen unb gtoflen lut~erifd)en %l)eologen ~CllOb foloen: .@5tin RoUege lJteumann fagt bon i~m: ,~d) ~abe ba~ graue, l)od)berbiente ~au!>t an bie fUnf ~al)te lang gefannt unb ofter mit mermunbetung angel)iirt; bie ganae @5tabt rod» nod) bon feiner unberflilfd)ten ~ietlit au reben, rote er nad) feiner @emo~nl)eit frUl)morgcni um 3 Ul)r jtd) ermunterte, bot @ot! fUflfliUig rourbe unb liber eine @5tunbe fein @ebet bettid)tete. ~r mar nid)t mit bem @eia bereffen unb Iiefl feinen fllrmen mit !millen ol)ne ~ilfe ge~en. ~r fud)te feine ~l)re barin, bafl et lJteuetungen in unfeter lReligion anfangen mild)te, fonbern baj roar feine @5orge, baB bie treue faeilage, bie un!! £ut~er au~ bet ~eiligen @5djrift roieber erfett l)atte, unberflilfd)t er'9alten unb bet lJtad)rodt unberf el)tt beroa~tt rourbe.'" (II, 83.) :tlte mobern.frlUfd)e %l)eo10gte Icl)nte !millen!! fdjarf ab unb aeigt fid) alii ebangdifd)en ~l)riften, bem bie lut~etifd)e £el)re lieb nnb roert ift; freilid) liber Union unb Unioni!!mui l)at er nid)t ball dd)tllle Urtetl. llIuf ben {etten @5eiten be!! 9unbettften faanbe!! be!! "Otium" - er l)atte einft geiiuf;ed, er miidjte ba!! "Otium Kalksburgense" aUf l)unbert faiinbe bringen - fdjdeb ber fiinfunbad)t3illia~rille !,\}reill mit unlleranbeder, tefttr ~anbfd)tift: #21. ~uni 1914: :tler liiugfte stag! lJRit !me~mut fe~e id) tl)n. ~er %Dbe!ltag ift unler tiingfter %ag l)ienieben. !mo~{ aUen, fur bie tin tmig langer %ag folgt!y ~amit legte er bie {Jeber nieber, um fie nie me~r au berfil)ten. IlIm nlid)ften lJRorgcn fanb man i~n fdjeinbar frieblid) fd)lummernb; ogne ieben Ram!>f roar er berfd)ieben, bit befonbm !,\}nabe be!! bon igm f 0 oft gebraud)ten !motte~ er. fal)tenb: ":tlu femnft burd) ,be!! %IlDe~ %Uren triiumcnb fU9ten." (I, IX.) ~. {J. 400 Book Review. Slitetatut . .8eugniffe bet IlBnljTljeit. !jltebigten itbcr bie ~bangeIien nad) bet etften !jleti~ tllvenrei~e ber 61)nobalfllnfmna. $lln~.~. ~ art e n bet g e r. IDlit einem ~e\lleitmllrt bon !jltof. 'IDl. 6. 6 0 m met. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 1930. VIII unb 401 Seiten 6X9, in S3einmanb mit @olbtitel gebunben. !jlrets: $2.75. P. ~attenlierger~ !jlrebigtgabe ift in meiten ,!heifen unfmr 61)nobe befannt, unb feine !jlrebigtlilid)er in beutfd)er unb in englifd)er Svrad)e 9aben biet lanflang gefunben. ~r berfte9t ell eben, guten ~ngalt in bo{f§tiimlid)er iIDtife batauliieten, unb bie !jltebigten finb nid)t au fung, fonnern finb mogI gertlOrgemad)fen aul! bel' 6ad)lage, bie in fo biden unfmr @emeinben pd) jtnbet, bat ieben 6onntagbor. mitta!! tin beutfd)tr unb tin englifd)er @ottel!bienft nnd)einnnber aligegnlten mirb. i)al! ~ud) ent9iilt im gnnaen 69 !jlrebigten. lane labbents~, ~J:liVganinl!. uub :trinitatilfllnntage finb berlidftd)tigt, unb auterbtm merben it amei !jlrebigten fUr iIDti9nad)ten, Dftetn unb !jlfingften unb it tine !jlrebigt fUr 6ilbefter, !!leu. jagr, ~viVl)ania!l, @t!inbonner!ltag, Rarfreitag, ~immelfagtt!lfeft, tllefotmationl. feft unb i)anffagunglitag bat'geboten. iIDir emvfeglen Mefe !jlrebigten angelegentlid) unfern !jlaftllun. i)ie lauliftattung bel! ~ud)el! ift boraUglid), ber !jlreil burd)an!l annegmbar liet llem Umfang nnll bet lan!lftattnng. S3. iJ. Ohurch Publicity. A Complete Treatment of Publicity Opportunities and Methods in the Local Church. By William H. Looch. 270 pages, 5%XS. Cokesbury Press, Nashville, Tenn. Price, $2.25. We Lutherans in former years were somewhat slow in making use of church publicity. Now, however, there is reason to fear that some among us go to the other extreme. N equid nimis! If done along proper and sane lines, we very much encourage church pUblicity. If carefully used, eliminating what we should not or even dare not do, one can find in the Rev. Mr. Leach's new book ChtWCh Publicity valuable hints and directions. J. H. C. FRITz. The Marburg Debate Between Luther and Zwingli, October 1-4, 1529. By W£lZw,m DaUmawn. Second Edition. Northwestern Pub- lishing House Print, Milwaukee, Wis. 24 pages, 3%X6. Price: Single copy, 10 eta.; in quantities, 5 eta. the copy. This is a good, brief account of the memorable debate whose four- hundredth anniversary the Lutheran Church observed last year. 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