(!Tnurnr~tu wl1rnlngirul lInutqly Continuing Lehre und Wehre (Vol. LXXVI) Magazin fuer Ev.-Luth. Homiletik (Vol. LIV) TheoI. Quarterly (1897-1920)-Theol. Monthly (Vol. X) Vol. I December, 1930 No. 12 CONTENTS Page FUERBRINGER, L.: Paulus in Athen ....... ' ............. 881 ENGELDER, TH.: The Active Obedience of Christ ....... 888 GRAEBNER, TH.: Reformed Tendencies in Certain Amer- ican Lutheran Churches ............................... 897 'BERNER, E.: Abhaltung einer Gemeindevisitation ........ 902 ivruELLER, J. T.: Address on Rom. 14, 7-9 at the Memo- rial Service for Mr. Erling Teigen......... . . . . . . . . . . .. 911 STREUFERT, F. C.: Pastoral Visits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 916 Dispositionen ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz ange- nommene Serie alttestamentlicher Texte............... 920 Theological Observer. - Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches. . . . .. 933 Book Review. - Literatur .................................. 953 Em Prediger muss nicht allein weiden, also dass er die Schafe unterweise, wie sie rechte Ohristen Bollen sein, sondern auch daneben den Woelfen wehren, dass sie die Schafe nicht angreifen und mit falscher Lehre verfuehren Imd Irrtum ein- fuehren. - Luthe'r. Es ist kein Ding, das die Leute mehr bei der Kirche behaelt denn die gute Predigt. - Apologie, Art. ~4. If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1 Oor.14, 8. Published for the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States" , CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE, St. Louis, Mo., Book Review. - .\Jitetatut. 953 Book Review. - £itcratur. Paul of Tarsus. By T. R. Glover, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Public Orator in the University. Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York. 1930. Price, $1.00. One must read with care the books of a man who is welcomed as a lec- turer at the University of Chicago and the Pacific School of Religion. But it is a pity that the learning here displayed and the ability here shown was not used in the interest of orthodox Christianity. There is much fine his- torical material, but there are also many aberrations and serious mistakes. The reviewer took up the book with some hopes that he might be wrong in his anticipations. But he was severely disappointed. Where the belief in the inspiration of the Bible is lacking, no part of the structure of teaching will show any definite outline. If a book is written from the standpoint of the acceptance of modern religious philosophy and the science of comparative religions, it is bound to show its subjective tendencies. It is the proton pseudos of the book, on the inspiration, that makes its conclusions in- adequate in the majority of cases. If one intends to treat the Bible like any other book, it would be best not to treat it at all. Chapters IV and V are especially disappointing, since the author here missed his chance of setting forth the fundamental truth of Christianity, that of the salvation of a poor sinner through the merits of Jesus Christ alone. P. E. KRETZMANN. The Doctrine of God. By Albert O. Knudson, Dean of Boston University School of Theology and Professor of Systematic Theology. The Abingdon Press, New York. 434 pages, 6~X8%. Price, $3.50. This is the first of two volumes in which Dr. Knudson intends to present the entire material of dogmatic theology. The second volume will be entitled The Dootrine of Redemption and will deal with the world, man, sin, and salvation through Christ. The present volume is divided into two parts, one dealing with the "Province of Theology" and the other, with the "Doctrine of God." To the first part the author devotes 199 pages, or practically half of the book. In presenting his views, Dr. Knudson pro- ceeds in a clear, scholarly, and thorough manner, and it is refreshing to note his departure from the superficial way in which the subjects of theology are usually treated to-day. However, the writer is not an ex- ponent of Christian theology. He is a mediating liberalist, strongly in- fluenced by Schleiermacher and Ritschl, especially by the former, whose rationalistic theology is reproduced and defended throughout the treatise with much enthusiasm. Dr. Knudson, following Schleiermacher, holds that "authoritarianism (that is, belief in the Bible as the only source and norm of faith) belongs to the past. Progressive Protestant theology has set it aside," p.15. Yet theology cannot renounce metaphysics, which has to do with God, without ceasing to be theology. The supernatural in theology must therefore be retained and "grounded philosophically." Accordingly, he defines theology as "the systematic exposition and rational justification of the intellectual content of religion," p. 19. Religion itself has three positive essential elements, namely, trustful dependence upon a Higher Power, a longing after life or redemption, and implicit alliance with the 954 Book Review. - S3itetafur. moral ideal, p. 45 ff. It differs from magic and mythology in that it ascribes to the world of spirit a rational and ethical character, p. 51. Hence it also has a rational content. The religions of the world reduce themselves essentially to two: the prophetic-Christian and the Buddhistic- Oriental, p. 118 f. Both, however, contain religious values. Christianity is the absolute religion in the sense that in Christ we have an actual revelation of God, and this revelation "is the highest known to men," p. 117. The difference between Christianity and other religions is there- fore only one of degree. However, absoluteness cannot be ascribed to the entire system of Christian doctrine, but only to its "essence," p. 123. This essence of Christianity cannot be defined, since it varies according to the subjective view of the individual; but if a person is "a Christian be- liever, he will naturally find its essence in some ideal that appeals to the thinking man of to-day and that has about it the ring of permanence," p. 123. This "essence" of Christianity is the modern substitute for the "infallible Book or infallible Church of the past," p. 123. The norms of theology are the "highest insights of reason," p. 173. "There is no ex- ternal standard of truth. The only standard is within the human mind itself," p. 173. Of course, "in a special and preeminent sense" the Bible is still the source and norm of Christian belief, for "in it we have the earliest and most trustworthy record of that unique revelation of God which was mediated to the world through Jewish and early Christian history," p.175. Hence "to this record we must go for the original documents of our religion, for its classic expression," p. 175. To this principal source may be added three supplementary sources: "the Church, natural reason, and Christian .experience," p. 187. The method by which the theologian determines truth is the critical method that "begins with an inquiry into the subjective conditions of knowledge or belief and that makes this in- quiry basal," p. 189. In its practical application this method becomes speculative, especially since "the Christian system needs to be brought into harmonious relation with the general field of philosophy," p. 198. These are some of the basic principles of the author's prolegomena. The theology produced on the basis of such premises is, of course, altogether rationalistic and unscriptural, as the reader perceives at once as he studies the author's exposition of the "doctrine of God." What he teaches as doctrine of God is not the Scriptural doctrine of God, but a doctrine of God which reason suggests and asserts. The writer indeed speaks of God's existence, absoluteness, personality, attributes; but all these facts are considered and expounded on the basis of rationalistic axioms, and not once does he quote Scripture as the true source of Christian doctrine. Nor can he rightly cite the Word of God to support his subjective theology, in which there is left only the terminology, but not the content of Christian theology. He rejects "traditional and orthodox Trinitarianism," p.41O. Yet he holds that for various reasons the doctrine of the Trinity should be retained within the Church, for it symbolizes the richness of the idea of God and proves God's "Christlikeness," whatever that may mean. He has the impudence to assert: "What the Trinitarian theologians were fundamentally concerned about was a new ethical conception of God. They affirmed the deity of Christ in order to make certain the Christlikeness of God. If this conception of God is granted, we have the heart of the Book Review. - 2iterahtt. 955 Trinitarian doctrine and for practical purposes need nothing mOTe," p.427. Again, "the Trinitarian doctrine does unquestionably dramatize the divine love in a way that appeals to the imagination and that makes it an effective symbol of the divine grace," p. 428. DT. Knudson's "doctrine of God" is both a failure and a fraud. It fails to pTesent tme Biblical theology and yet pretends to be a text-book of Christian doctrine. The author Tecognizes no inspiTed Holy Scripture, no Holy Trinity in the sense of the Bible, no deity of Christ as our Lord Him- self testified of His deity. If he retains the terminology of sacred theology, this is done only to mislead simple believers to assume that modernistic "Christianity" is still Christian, whereas in reality his dogmatics is a mockery of the divine truths of the Word of God. We record this with sorrow, for the author's learning (he is a graduate of Jena and Berlin, and by the latter was honored with the title of Th. D. pro merito), insight, and ingenuity might have been well used for the exposition and defense of true theology, which he claims to teach, but which most insidiously he undermines and destroys. J. T. MUELLER. The Revolt Against Dualism. An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas. By Arthur O. Lovejoy. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y. 325 pages, 5%,X8%,. Price, $4.00. Dualism, as defined on the jacket of this volume, is "the concept of subjective appearance and objective reality." A little more simply: Is there an existence, in and by themselves, of things and of my thoughts about things? At bottom there is the fundamental distinction between spirit and matter and between mind and body. Is the world to be con- ceived under one principle only, that of matter? Then we have Ma- terialism. Does nothing real correspond to the objects of sense; are my ideas about them the only true realities? Then we have another monism, this time Idealism. Do matter and mind both exist? Then, what are their relations to each other? By what possible explanation can I assume that they interact? This Dualism of mind and body - of physical realities or things and events, and mental realities, or ideas - Professor Lovejoy's book treats. The author is Professor of Philosophy in Johns Hopkins University and together with Professors McDougall, Sheldon, and J. B. Pratt represents the American reaction against the materialistic denial of mind. He has given us lucid discussions of Pragmatism and Behaviorism and now, in the Revolt Against Dualism, takes up the systems of White- head, Russell, and others and the changes which they represent and to which they point, in modern speculation on the rival propositions of Monism and Dualism. His discussion of this theme offers a survey of the history of metaphysics during the past three centuries and an evaluation of the systems now dominant in America and England, especially of the New Realism. Fascinating and sometimes tantalizing vistas are opened up for the study of those theories of relativity in which the most abstruse ontological speculation contacts with the realities of science, especially in the field of radioactivity. Professor Lovejoy does not, of course, trace out these relations, his theme being limited to the strictly metaphysical viewpoint of the speculations which until recently were regarded as de- structive of the old ideas of a Dualism of mind and matter. That this 956 Book Review. - l.Jiteratut. revolt has been unsuccessful, that neither the American Neo-Realists nor Whitehead nor Russell have succeeded in avoiding the Dualism against which they contend, is conclusively brought out in this volume. It is the latest word on the present status of modern philosophy in its relation to the new physics, on the one hand, and to the older critical and dog- matic systems, on the other. It appears to justify a statement made some years ago by Professor Pratt in his book Matter and SpVrit: "No more hopeful point of attack upon the ultimate problems of metaphysics could be found than here, in the relation of mind and body. The whole question of matter and spirit centers, as it were, within our very or- ganisms. A study of this problem therefore and a serious consideration of Dualism and all that it involves could hardly fail to open up new and enticing vistas of investigation, fresh and fruitful problems for further study." For one thing, such books as those of Lovejoy and Pratt, and, of course, McDougall, sound the death-knell of mechanism and withdraw the last scientific support from the various materialistic systems also in the fields of biology and psychology. This is the principal value of such discussions as here referred to, for the professional theologian. THEODORE GRAEBNER. Men Who Made the Churches. By Paul Hutchinson. Cokesbury Press, Nashville, Tenn. 212 pages, 5X7y". Price, $1.50. This book contains eight biographical sketches, of the following men: Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Bunyan, George Fox, John Wyclif, John Wesley, and Alexander Campbell- men "who gath- ered up in their career the working forces which produced" new churches. The author's style is fresh and fluent. He draws a fairly complete picture of his chosen characters. His book makes interesting reading. Pastors will find it a handy volume for reference in preparing lectures for young people's societies, and the like. The author's theological viewpoint is not Lutheran. W. G. POLACK. ~ann audj ein $aftot fefig lUethen? @mfte ®ebanten flir t5ee{jorger unb aUe, bie an anbem t5eeIen aroeiten. mon:tl i e t r i clj m 0 r to e r t metIag: iYriebticlj ma~n, t5cljtoerin inmlecUenourg. 115 t5eiten 5X7y". ~reis: M.2.80 . .{lu oe3ie~en burcljs Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. mor biden ~a~ren las iclj in ber treffHcljen Sllo~anblung D. Sllbolf bon &;ladeb' lioer ,,(:f~riftentum unb :tIicljttunft" ein 1ID0rt aus ~aul Sllntons ~aftoralfenten3en, bas iclj mir aogeicljrieoen unb oefonbers gem edt ~aoe. :tIiefer emfte stgeolog, aUerbings aus ber pietiftifcljen 5cljuIe, icljreibt in ber 104. t5enten3: ,,?lieH man immer mit ~emgen t5acljen umgegt, fo getoognt man berfefOen enbHclj, unb ift niemClUD megr in ®efa~r bet &;leucljeIei alS ber geiftficlje t5tanb." :tIas ift getoib etn 1ID0ti, bas aUen ~rebigem unb ;t~eologen burdj &;leq unb ®etoiffen fagren f oUte. Unb an bief es lIDort bacljte iclj, alS idj bie neue Slluflage bon mortoeds ,,~ann auclj ein ~aftor f eHg toerben 1" sur &;lanb nagm. ~dj ~aoe bas mlidjlein fcljon bot 3toan3ig ~a~ren gelefen, alS es mit 3um erftenmal au ®eficljt tam. ~e~t ~at es feine fecljfte, neuoearoeitete Slluflage et1ebt. @s ift dne getoiffenfcljiirfenbe t5cljrift. :tIas fage iclj, ootoogl id) an igr auclj SllusfteUungen 3U macljen gaoe unb t5acljen barin finbe, bie berfegrt finb. mon ber &;leiligen 5djrift geibt es: "S)ie mioeUritit gat uns ge3eigt, bab toir an ber mioel nicljt einen papiemen ~apft gao en, fonbem cin madjtboUes .{leugnis bon ben staten ®ottes. IJHcljt ein un. Book Review. - ,\Jiteratur. 957 fel)Hiar !Jill aUf ieben lBud)ftaben infvirierter ~obe~ ift unfet ®laubensgtunb, f onbetn ®ottes .i;leifStaten in :;S~fu unb in ber il)m borangel)enben unb nad)~ folgenben Of(enbatungllgefd)id)te/l (6.75). 5l)as ift Me falfd)e mobetne ;snfvita~ tionslel)re. 5l)atum l)eibt es (Iud) an (lnheret 6teUe: /lmom inneten ,\Jeben ;s~fu aull emvfangen bie l)eiligen 6d)tiften il)re mutori!iit 3urUd, meil unb fofetn fie ~l)riftum treiben/l (6.76 f.). 5l)all ift ein falfd)er 6tanbvunft, bem ein falfd)ber~ ftanbenell ,\Jutl)ermort 3ugtunbe liegt. mon ben lBefenntniffen unfetet ~ird)e fagt bet metfaffer: ,,5l)ie reformatotifd)en lBefenntniSfd)riften leben nid)t im moue; fie finb au tl)eologifd) obet au lang" (6.80). moer mie ftel)t es mit bem mVo~ ffolUum unb bem SHeinen ~ated)ismus ,\Jutl)ers? 5l)a fagt ber merfaffer gana tid)tig: ,,~ein 6a~ bes mvofto mums l)at burd) mobetne mlif! enf d)aft an mlal)r~ l)eit berloten./I ~t fUgt jebod) bann gleid) l)inau: ,,·moer geftagt barf metben, ob mit ®ott nid)t bitten foUen um ein lBefenntniS, meld)es bas mvoftomum nad) bet fubjeftiben 6eite ergiinat, meld)es aum musbrud bringt, burd) melcl)e ®e~ miffenserfal)rungen ber reformatotifd)e ®laube entftel)!" (6. 80). mber getabe bet ~leine stated)illmus, bet bom erften .i;lauVtftild aum ameiten Ubetgel)t, beantmotiet Mefe i\'rage. 5l)et merfaffet lel)nt amar im mletfe bet lBefel)rung ben 6emivela~ gianiSmus ab, menn et fagt: ,,5l)iejenigen, meld)e bie lBefel)rung teUS aur menfd)~ ltd)en, teifll aUr giittlid)en Xat mad)en mod)ten (iil)nlid) ben 6emivelagianern), fagen: .i;lalfJ ift es ber \Ruf bell maters, ber ball ~inb bom mfJgrunb l)inmegaiel)t, l)alo bas ~ntgegentommen bes ~inbell, mefd)es bem mater 3uftrebt" (6. 19). mbet er gebraud)t bann bod) lBilber unb musbrUde, bie nid)t rtel)tig finb. 5l)er mer~ faffer ift lanbestirel)ltel)et Xl)eolog, ~fatter an ber mnbreaStirel)e in 5l)rellben unb auberotbentliel)es lJRitglteb bes fiiel)fifel)en ,\Janbestonfiftoriums. Unb boel) miiel)te iel) Mefes lBud) getn auel) bon unfern ~aftoren vrUfenb gelefen fel)en, meil es fo biel ~tnftes unb ®utes entl)iilt, etnfte lJRal)nungen unb mlarnungen. mlit geuen tUta ben ;snl)aU an. g(ad) einem mormot! tommt ein voetifel)es ,smiegefvriiel): ".Rann auel) ein ~aftor felig merben?/I unb bann bie fofgenben ~avi!el: ,,5l)ie 6eligfeit ber ~aftoten. lBefel)tung unb lBemiil)rung ber ~aftoren. 5l)er feltgmael)enbe ®faube unb ber ®eift unf etcr ,sei!. ~l)arafteriftH bell ®eifteil unf erer ,seit. .i;linberntff e fUt ben feligmael)enben ®faubcn uno bas vfartamtliel)e mlitfen oer ~aftoten, roelef)e in bem gef d)ilbetten ~£)atatter bet ,seit entl)alten finb. 6egnungen fUr ben feltgmael)enben ®fauoen unb bas vfattamtHel)e mlitfen ber ~aftoren, melel)e in bem ~l)arattet bell ®eiftes unferer ,sei! entf)aHen finb, unb mlinfe aut iibetminbung ber .i;linbetniffe. ~feine i\'einbe unb i\'reunbe./I mlit teifen einige musfUl)rungen mit, bei benen ber merfaffet fief) fefbft immer mit einfcf)liebt. ,,~ine ®emiffenilftage an ben ,\Jefet unb an ben metfaffer biefes lBud)ell: .i;lat jebet bon unll bie ®emof)n~ f)eit, tiigliel) fUt feine ®emeinbegltebet au beten, unb amar niel)t nut fo im aUge~ meinen, fonbem namentliel), mit btennenbet .i;littenHebd .i;lat jeber bon unll ein 6eelemegiftet, bail et bei feinen i\'Urbitten fotgltel) unb barmf)eraig 3ugtunbe leg±? 5l)er befte Xeil ber 6eelfotge mitb im ®euetil£iimmetlein getan/l (6. 35). g(ael)bem er bon ber vetfiinltel)en lBibeHettilre, bem verfiinliel)en ®ebet, bon guten lBilel)ern ufm. getebet £)at, fagt er: "muer menn auel) lBilel)er einem i\'reunbe unb 6eelforger roet~ ben £Onnen, menn aud) ber ~xebiger fiel) fefbft ein 6eelfotget fein foU, menn auel) ®ott, ber unfid)tbate 6eelforger, filr jeben ~aftot etteid)bar ift, mid)tig finb boel) auel) fiel)tbare 6eelfotget. ('\;in ~farter foU 3ufef)en, bab fehu i\'rau if)m cine 6eelforgetin fei. 5l)ann mub es fteiliel) cine i\'rau fein, bie if)ren lJRann niel)t blinb betgiittett, aUe fcine ~tebigten fel)iin finbet, aUe feine lJRabtegeln gutljetbt, fonbem bielmeljr il)r ®emiffen btauel)t unb if)rem lJRanne bas ®emif!en fcl)iitft, cine i\'tau, bie mit il)rem Iffianne bas ®ebet au ameicn Heb! unb fUel)t" (6. 38). 958 Book Review. - \3itetatur. 50bann rebet er babon, ba~ ein ~aftor 5eeIforger fjaben fann an feinen ®emetnbe~ gliebern, unb fagt im Unfd)lu~ baran: ,,~in ~farrer foll fegen, ba~ er in einem ~(mtsbtuber ober in megrerenUmt5brilbern 5eelforger unb Q3etd)tiget tinbet. Griner unf erer gef egnetften ®eij'tltd)en gatte immer cinen amtsbrilbetfid)en 6eeI~ forger, bon bem er fid) veraten lie~, unb et nagm in fetnet ftnbrtd)en :Demut mogl auef) feinen unDtbinietten ~ifat Sum 5eelforger" (5. 38). ~t menbet fief) gegen bie 9Jlobelmbiger, bei benen "bas 5al3 bes m50rtes ®ottes burd) ben {ludet bet 5entimentaltt1it etfe;t mitb", unb fd)litft ein: "m5et lJJ1enfd)en sut 6eligfeit filgren mill, bet mu~ H)nen ben m5eg 3ut 5eligfeit seigen, nid)t bie Q3fumen, Die am m5ege vIiil)en" (6. 65). :Det ~etfaffet l)at aud) bie vefonbete ®abe, butd) fuqe, .pointierte ®egeniloerftellungen tid)tige ®ebanfen sum Uusbrud 3U btingen. m5enn er bon ben fdinberniffen filr ®faulJen unb m5itfen bet ~aftDten in unferer {leU tebet, fagt er treffenb: ,,:Die immenfe 5teigerung bes mobernen ~edel)rs~ levens bringt fetd)t dne eoenfo gtote ~etfilmmerung bes ~edel)ts mit bem l)imm~ ltfd)en ~ater 3uftanbe" (5. 54). ;;sn vesug aUf bie biefen ~etfammfungen l)eut~ 3utage fagt er futa unb gut: ,,~etfammlungen finb oft bas ~etbetven filr bie 5ammlung." linb er filgt bcmn l)insu: "m5enn bie 5eeIe immet um fid) l)erblidt in taufenb frembe Uugen, menn fie immet um fid) l)etumtebet in taufenb frembe Dl)ren, bann betlernt fie fd)lieflHd) bas etnfame ®ef.ptiid) mit il)rem ®ott, bann berlernt fie, em.poqufaufd)en in bas fJeifige unb bod) fo veteilte 6d)meigen ber ~migfett" (5.59). m5it fd)!ieflen biefe Q3ef.preef)ung mit bem vefannten ®evets~ munfd) m5aUl)ers, einem fetnet fettenm5otte: ,,®ott befd)ere uns etn frommes lJJ1inifterium!" linb ba mit oiefe m50tte fef)teiven getabe an bem :tage, ba ein neues 5tubienjal)t veginnt, fo filgen mit l)insu: ®ott vefd)m uns fromme 5tu~ benten bet :tlJeololJie, benen es ein ~rnft ift mit ilJtem .petfiinlid)en ~gtiftentum! \3. jJ il t V ti n IJ e t. Religion and Conduct. The Report of a Conference Held at Northwestern University, November 15-16, 1929. Editorial Committee: George H. Betts, Frederick C. Eisden, George A. Cae. The Abingdon Press. 288 pages, 5 X 8. Price, $2.00. Child Life and Religion. By Ilse Forest. Rich. R. Smith, Inc. 142 pages, 5 X 8. Price, $1.50. A Christian Pedagogy. By Edwu1·d W. A. Koehler, River Forest, Ill. Concordia Publishing House. 260 pages, 5 X 8. Price, $1. 7 5. If one may judge by the number of books issuing from the printer's press, interest in education in its various phases is still unabated. Alas, most modern books on pedagogy are written in an unchristian, too fre- quently an antichristian spirit. Reading these books, one is astonished on the one hand by the mass of learning displayed on every page, and the astonishment grows as one sees that in spite of this mass of learning these recognized leaders in the field of education, having strayed from the Word of Truth, are in a state of hopeless confusion as to the aim, the means, the method, yea, the very meaning, of religious education. Says the chair- man of the conference committee in an "Explanatory Statement" pref- acing the volume (page 8): "Naturally, the question at issue (the place of religion in shaping conduct and character) was not settled; it was only opened for discussion. Those who contributed most to the conference would be the first to agree that nothing final was arrived at." The old question: What is truth? Dr. Paul Hutchinson, managing editor of the Christian Book Review. - lJitetatut. 959 Oentury, in a concluding paper on "What did the Conference Accomplish 1" writes among other interesting things as follows: "I think I could sum up my answer to the first question, 'What facts seem fairly dependable l' by saying that, aside from the fact to which Dr. Vieth had already referred, namely, the very evident fact of interest in the subject, * there appear to be no facts that can be described as dependable.-r For the second question, 'vVhat hypotheses need further testing?' my answer would have to be, All. For the third question, 'What chief problems await solution?' again my answer would have to be, All, page 272. Again, on page 278: "I think we have had an immensely stimulating two days; and, as I said at the beginning, if we are looking for dependable facts emerging from this, I think a dependable fact will be our geneml confusion.-r We don't know what the sources of character are; we don't know what it is that reaches these sources; we don't know whether any conception of religion we might have is among these effective agencies, even if we knew how to go about reaching them. But it has been a fine thing to see this awakening to our situation. We are really getting started when we realize the position in which we are" [?]. If the autoist realizes that his machine lies hope- lessly wrecked in the ditch, what a wonderful start he is getting! We hope and pray that the eyes of these blind leaders of the blind may be opened by the Spirit of Christ. The value of this book for the Christian teacher lies chiefly in the fact that here we have the latest pronouncements of such recognized leaders as Freeman and Wiemann of the University of Chicago, Betts and Todd of Northwestern, Geo. A. Coe, and others. Mrs. Forest's book breathes the same spirit. The publishers assure us that Mrs. Forest has supplied an answer which is worthy of the careful attention of every thoughtful person to the question, "What shall I tell my child [in preschool years] about religion?" Still the authoress assures us (page VIn): "Again be it said that this book offers no adequate answer to any of these questions." Page 79 she tells us: "No matter what one's interpretation of the 'psychology of prayer' may be, the only belief in its efficacy which can survive self-conscious intellectual development and the criticism of modern psychology is that which looks upon it as a col- lection of inner resources, a calling up of strength to will and to do." Try that definition in the hour of death. Pity the poor children of preschool age who are thus taught to pray! On page 83 we find this pearl of wisdom: "What right has even a mother to pry into the 'rights' and 'wrongs' of a child's day and arbitrarily associate these with his evening prayers? The present writer wonders." We wonder also, but for another reason. It is refreshing to turn from the reading of books such as the two reviewed above to a book of the nature of Koehler's Pedagogy. Here we breathe an altogether different atmosphere, that of absolute submission to the Word of God. The very fact that the motto for this book was taken from Scripture shows the spirit which moved the author when he wrote and which is evident from every page of his book. For this reason we can truthfully say that more sound pedagogy is found on one page of this * More than 600 persons came at their own expense to participate in the discussions, many from a distance of hundreds of miles. t Italics our own. 960 Book Review. - 13iteta±ut. book than in the two volumes reviewed above. Koehler's pedagogy is that of the Bible. Based on the infallible Word of God, it is sure of its grounds, its purpose, its means, its scope, its final end. We have here not a rudderless ship drifting on an uncharted ocean; rather do we gain the impression that the author knows whereof he speaks, knows that he is in possession of the truth. Such positiveness, if it is, as it is here, the fruit of humble submission to the Scriptures, begets confidence and like assurance that one is on the right track in this important duty of training one's children to be good citizens of Church and State. Koehler's book was written not for teachers only. Pastors ought to call the attention of parents to this volume. There is no chapter that a parent of average intelligence will not understand, so clear and lucid is the style of the author. A well-arranged, comprehensive index adds to the usefulness of the book. The price is reasonable, as compared with that of Religion and Oonduct, which numbers only 28 pages more and whose workmanship certainly does not excel that of this product of our Pub- lishing House. TH. LAETSCH. BOOKS RECEIVED. From Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York:- Homely Homilies. By the Right Rev. W. T. Gunn, D. D., Moderator of the United Church of Canada. 147 pages, 5Xn~. Price, $1.50. THE ROAD TO FAITH. By Winifred Kirkland. 270 pages, 5X7%. Price, $1.00. With Mercy and with Judgment. By Principal Alexander White, D. D. 285 pages, 5 X 7%. Price, $1.00. The Mind of the Master. By John Watson, D. D. 338 pages, 5X7%. Price, $1.00. Funeral Sermons and Outline Addresses. Compiled by William E. Ketoham, D. D. 375 pages, 5X7%. 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