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LEHRE UNO WEHRE
MAGAZIN FUER Ev.-LUTH. HOMILETIK
THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLy-THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY
Vol. IV September, 1933 No.9
CONTENTS
Biblical Ethics Concerning Young People. P. E. Kretzmann
Wie muss Gottes Wort gepredigt werden, damit Glaube
entatehe in den Herzen der Zuhoerer? F. Pieper •.••••
Objective lustification. Th. Engelder ••..•.••.••..•..••••
Das Verhaeltnis der gratia universalis zur Gnadenwahl.
P. E. Kretzmann •..•••••••
Propositions Concerning the Election of Grace.
Page
841
653 v
684
676
P. E. Kret2mann •• . • • • • • •• 682
Die Hauptschriften Luthers in chronologischer Reihenfolge 685
Dispositionen ueber die altkirchliche Epistelreihe ........ 686
lliscellanea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 692
Theological Observer. - Kirchlich ·Zeitgeschichtliches . . .. 696
Book Review. - Literatnr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 713
Ein Prediger mUBB niOOt alleln tDeidM,
alao u.. er die Bchate unterwellle, wie
oie rechte 0brI&ten lOlleD aeiD, lOodem
aum daoeben den Woelfen weArm, dua
lie die Bchate Dicht usreIfen lIOd mit
talscber Lehre nrtuehren IIOd Irrtum em·
fuehren. - Luther.
Es ilit kein D~. du die Leate mehr
bel der Kirche behaelt deDD die pte
Predigt. - Apolol1ie. Ar'. t~.
If the t rumpet gift In UDCertain IOUDd,
Ivho shall prepare himaelf to the battle,
1 Oor'~J8.
Published for the
Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States
CONCOlmIA. :PUBLISHING HOUSE, St. Louis, lito.
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Book Review. - £iteratur.
<;Dd ~ort &ottcB nnb baB !1Ute $teftament. mon ~ 0 ~ ann ~ ii n e L
47 6eiten 5X8. ~. iBcrtegmann in ®titer~lo~. llltei~: M.1.20.
~n hiejem iBtid)lein fti~tt ~iinel ®ebantcn au~, aUf bie er fd)on in hen
6d)lubta~iteln be~ frti~er ange3eigten iBud)e§ tiber ,,:!>ie !Religion bet ~eiligfeit"
(m~til~eft, 6. 313) ~ingcltJiejen ~atte. S~iinel tuill im \~Uten ::teftament ®ottes
m30rt anetfcnnen, ltJenn aud) hee OjfenbnrungsltJett be~ mUen :teftaments i~m
nicf)t mel)r ein~citlicf) ift. (6. 36.) ~r ~at eben hie 53e~te bon het merbalinfpita.
tion als un~altbat' aufgegeben unb begrtinbet bie giittlicf)e 6d)rift in gana anOcre.
[£Idle. ,,~ll ift ba~ in bet Offcnoarung bet ~eiligteit ®ottes gegebene ®eifb
aeugniS, um bes ltJillen bie biere Of!enbatung bermittelnbe 6d)tift fid) alg bag
[£loti ®ottes erltJeift." (6. 12.) ~m \~uten ::teitament gabe fid) niimlid) Die 53e~te
bon ber ~emg!eit ®Dtte~, bie ba~ Wefen aUet rrteligiDnen ausmad)e, au il)tet
reinften 4!leftaltung emlJotgefd)ltJungen. (6. 13-17.) :!>iefe moUfommenl)eit bet
Of!enbatung laife fid) nut etHiiten butd) cin [£Ihlen ®otte~ aUf bie ~enfd)en,
bie ba~ mite ::tcftament niebergeid)tieben IJaben, bod) fll; has ble ile~!er bct 'l3erba{~
infpitatioll bermieben ioctbet1. ::t~. 53 a t f d).
O'er Land and Sea with the Apostle Paul. By A. A. Acton, B. A., B. D.
Introduction by Prof. Ernest F. Scott, M. A., D. D., Union Theological
Seminary, New York. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 222 pages,
5X8. Price, $1.75.
This life of Paul can, on the whole, be recommended to students of the
career of the great apostle. What interested the author chiefly, as he
states in the foreword, was "the missionary procedure of Paul." Ques-
tions of a critical and strictly theological nature, such as "Paul's relation
to the church at Corinth, the North versus the South Galatia theory, or
the problems of Paul's theology," have not been discussed at length. While
not endeavoring to write a critical biography, the author has endeavored
to avail himself of the best that modern scholarship has produced in this
field. Here and there one finds a sentence that is unacceptable. The state-
ment of Dr. Scott in the introduction that the older theology had leaned
too much on Paul is not correct. On the contrary, to the extent that old
theologians reproduced the teachings of Paul they were spreading the
Christian religion in its purity. If the work appears in a second edition,
minor inaccuracies, in which it fairly abounds, should be eliminated. For
instance, on page 102, in the account of the conciusion of the second mis-
sionary journey of Paul, we read: "Silas and Timothy drop out of the
narrative and are mentioned no more save the notice that Timothy ac-
companied Paul later to Jerusalem." This is an unfortunate statement;
for according to Acts 19, 22 Timothy was with Paul in Ephesus during
the third missionary journey of the apostle, serving him there, and was
sent by him to Macedonia about a year before the occasion when he ac-
companied Paul to Jerusalem. Cf. the author's own reference, p.208, to
Timothy's rOle in Ephe~us. W . .ARNDT.
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What Is Christianity? And Other Essays. By the Rev. Prof. F. Piepm',
D. D., late Professor of Dogmatics, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
:Mo. Presented in English by John Theodore Mueller, Th. D., Pro-
fessor of Systematic Theology, Concordia Seminary. VIII and 290
pages. Price, $1.75. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 1933.
This book, embodying essays read by Dr. Pieper at synodical conven-
tions (1. What Is Ohristianity? 2. The C}wistian World-view. 3. The
Reconciliation ot Man with God. 4. The Laymen's Movement in the Light
ot God's Word. 5. The Holy Bible. 6. The Open Heaven), presents the
chief dod.rines of the Christian religion and deals with most important
matters of the ChTistian life. The attentive study of it will prove prof-
itable to every Christian and to every unchristian, and these essays, written
by a master of the Scriptural and popular presentation of Christian theol-
ogy, compel attentive study. No matter to what class the attentive reader
may belong, he will derive great spiritual benefits from his study. Those
of us who have read the essays in German will with every repeated reading
discover and acquire new wealth. The riches of Scripture - and of every
Scriptural presentation of the saving truth - are unsearchable. And those
of us who are not familiar with the German need no longer be deprived of
the wealth gathered and "ffe,'ed in thc:;e treatises. The m&;terly trans,
lation makes of them a fine equivalent of tl1e original. The young pastor,
even thou h he possess Dr. Pieper's Ohristliche Dogmat'ik, ennot afford to
deprive himself of the possession of this popular dogmatics. (And he who
acquires this smaller dogmatics will want the larger one, too.) He will
read it first for his own edification. He will read it again in order to
enrich his index with the wealth of Lutheran dogmatics. And he will
reao it. again with a view to the needs of the pulpit. Meanwhile he will
be immensely benefited by acquiring something of the style of Dr. Pieper,
who knew how to express the deep thoughts of Scripture in simple and
clear language and how to elucidate his points by apt illustration and
graphic description. More than that, he can here learn the art of effec-
tive Christian preaching, which consists in basing all exhortation on doc-
trine and all doctrine on Scripture. Doctrinal preaching of the right
sort, as here exemplified, is never dry. The saving doctrines of Scripture,
revealing the mind and heart of the Lord, engage the mind and touch the
heart of man. They only need to be studied and then unfolded in their
depth and grandeur. And as you will here find that all Scripture is
profitable for doctrine, you will also find that all doctrine is profitable
for exhortation and admonition. Whatever exhortation, admonition, warn-
ing, reproof, rcfutation of error, your people are in need of, base it on the
doctrine and base the doctrine on Scripture. The old pastor will study this
book with pleasure and profit. He will thank God that he has been priv-
ileged to preach these wonderful truths, the wonders of which he is now
seeing better than before, these many years; his heart is rejoicing that
soon, entering the open heaven, he shall behold the Lord, who reconciled the
war ld unto Himself, face to face; and he is vowing that he will devote
his few remaining years to the still more earnest and urgent proclama-
tion of the message: "Be ye reconciled to God." The theologian can learn
mueh from this little book. He will find that the sublime truths of Scrip-
ture are capable of being expressed in simple language, intelligible to the
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common man and common pastor, and he is going to hear us implore him
to save most of his big words and shrewd investigations for heaven, the
more 80 as the real big words, expressive of the perfect knowledge of God,
are supplied only by the language of heaven. Now we know only in part,
and a good many of the modern learned theologian's big words and profound
disquisitions are intended to make known the unknowable and thus can
only lead to a false knowledge. A good deal of the current theological
wisdom does not belong in Christian theology. There is a place in theology
for the most erudite language. Employ it in the company of your equals.
But as your business is for the most part with the common pastor and com-
mon theologian, employ the greatest simplicity possible. Another and more
importltnt matter: vague statements have no place in Christian theology.
Use the most erudite language if and when you must, but unless it ex·
presses a clear concept, leave it unsaid. And the desire to know the un-
knowable, to harmonize, in other words, God's wisdom with human wis-
dom, to express, in other words, the mysteries of the Gospel in words of
human wisdom, can result only in vague words and meaningless phrases.
Take, for example, the doctrine of the reconciliation. A great many of
the great theologians of our day do not know how to present it. They
are -n'vu~ to employ tho vaguest, m,?st iauefinite terms in defining the
reconciliation of God and man. It is hard to find out from them what
exactly took place in the heart of God when Jesus died for our sins. They
refuse to say that the sinner is the object of God's wrath. They abhor
the thought of a real substitution. Hence the intolerable vagueness and
occasional vacuity in their definition of "reconciliation." Let them study
at the feet of Dr. Pieper. He is a Scriptural theologian. Hc takes Scrip-
ture at its word. So her1' we have elpa]" and clean-cut statements: God
is reconciled - His wrath gave place to grace. The sinner knows what
to make of that, and the wealth of salvation is his. Another matter:
a great many modern theologians disdain the use of Scripture in their
theological writings. For did not Schleiermacher decree that the dog-
matician must refrain from the use of Scripture-passages? The fact, how-
ever, is that men who are concerned about their salvation will be satis-
fied with nothing less than God's own words in divine matters. They
will not take the word of the Schleiermacherian theologian for it. They
want books like Dr. Pieper's. They want every statement buttressed by
Scripture. Besides the official teachers of the Church the laymen will
profit greatly by this book. They can understand every word in it.
Dr. Pieper used to warn against the employment, at synodical meetings,
of technical, scientific language, intelligible only to the profession, as an
insult of the assembly (Ohristliche Dogmatiic, III, 501), and he followed his
own advice. He does indeed occasionally use a technical term in this book.
But that does not make it unfit for the use of the laity. No man, unlearned
or learned, feels imposed upon when the newspapers occasionally use an
unfamiliar term. He looks up its meaning. It will harm no man occa-
sionally to pause at a word or discuss its meaning with his neighbor. And
what Dr. Pieper here says on the reconciliation of the world with God, on
justification by faith, on the necessity of good works, on the inspiration of
Scripture, is needed by the layman no less than by the theologian. The
essay on the Laymen's Movement and the Bible is not the only one that is
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meant for the laymen. They will find that that is the case when studying
this particular essay. They will find that the business of the laity is not
confined to the external matters of the Church or to its financial affairs.
"The Laymen's Movement and the lNnances of the Ohurch" comes in second
place. In the first place we find "The Preaching of God's Word by All
Christians Also Divinely Instituted," with the subdivision: "Preaching of
God's Word by Christian Women." And here we come upon the grand
passage beginning with the words: " But what about the ability of all
Christians to proclaim the divine Word? This ability is usually under-
estimated - I am almost inclined to say in ninety-five cases out of a hun-
dred." (P. 141 f.) Let the laymen read this passage and then inaugurate
a movement to have our great book discussed, chapter by chapter, in the
Gemeindeversammlung or in the men's clubs. The pastor must not say :
My laymen would not get much out of it. The laymen must not say : We
are not interested in these matters. - Another class of men who need to
study our book comprises those who deal with the finances of the Church,
and that class comprises, in a manner, all Christians. Dr. Pieper knows
how to deal with this matter. He was an optimist. He believed in the
power of the Gospel. The Gospel puts the hoarded gold in circulation.
Dr. Pieper was an optimist , but not an extremist . Look it up ! He was not
an extremist, but he knew wha t la nguage to a pply to the niggard. Look
it up! Our book should be studied by t he philosopher s, scientists, high-
school t eachers. It will correct their world-view. Again, our book should
be put into the hands both of those who do not know the Lutheran Church
and of those who know and love her. We love our Church for the beauty
of her doctrine, the Gospel of the grace of God in Christ Jesus as it is
here portrayed, and we hang our heads in shame when Dr. Pieper shows us
how shamefully we neglect our privileges. He knows what is wrong with
us, lays his finger on the sore spots, and presses down unmercifully. He
knows how to deal with smug seli-satisfaction and pharisaic pride. And
those who do not know the Lutheran Church should be told, as they are
here told, what glorious things are spoken in the Lutheran Zion: sola
Scriptum, sola gratia, gratia universalis. Our book should find a place
in every public library in the land. It should not be excluded from the
public libraries and the Lutheran and non-Lutheran studies because it
vehemently denounces the denial of the inspiration of Scripture, of the
alone-saving grace of God, and of any other doctrine. And that introduces
another class that will find the study of this book profitable: the errorists.
Men need to be told what a fearful crime they commit when they deny
anyone of the saving doctrines of the Bible, when they become guilty of
obstructing, in any manner, the way to the open heaven. And here, too,
we exclude no class of errorists. The synergists must not claim exemp-
tion. Our hook has been faulted for its denunciation of synergism, more
particularly of " Lutheran" synergism. We fail to see why any form of
the denial of the alone-saving grace of God should receive tolerance in the
Lutheran Church. What is wrong with the statement of Dr. Walther, and
why should it not have been incorporated in our book (p. 284): " A the-
ology which changes faith into a work of man and seeks to show that the
reason wh,v certain men are saved while others are lost is to be found in
man's own free decision or in his conduct or in his cooperation is dis-
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tinguished from the papistical doctrine of justification only as to its
terminology" ?
We do not know of any class of men that would not be benefited by
the attentive study of this classical presentation of the Lutheran doctrine.
We know of course that it will not get the world-wide circulation which
it deserves. But if things take their proper course, it will be studied by
a very great number of Lutheran pastors and teachers and by many Lu-
theran laymen. - Lest we be accused of indulging in extravagant praise,
we submit the last sentence of the review that appeared in the Kirchen-
blatt (American Lutheran Church). Not only the body of the statement,
but also the introductory clause carries high praise: "Uebersieht man die
missourische Einstellung, so hat man an diesem Buche eine we1-tvolle
Sarnmlnng von gut aufgebauten und scharf dUd'chdachten Reden ueber
Zentralwahrheiten des Ohristentums." TH. ENGELDER.
!martin 2ut~er. lUusiletllii~{te m5ede. I5djdften, ~tebigten, ,3eugniffe fUr bie
@emeinbe bon ~eute Dargeboten unb betbo!metfcl)t. 18anb V: l5cf)tiften
But ~tuillegung neuteitamentlidjet 6tUue. 1932. ~a!tuer meteinsbud)~anb"
lung, Eituttgart. 429 EieHen 5X7%. ~einen. RM.5.
SDas neuettuacf)te :;'lnteteffe an )]ut~ets Eidjriften in 'Ileutfc!)!anb ~1ift n.!
~idjt nut finb in ben lettnl :Ja~qe~nten bide ausgcaeidjnctc :ffionograpi)inl,
2uH)erftubien unt 18iogta~!;ien eridjienen, \onoetn es werDen aUd) bide 6cf)tiften
bes ffieformators neu aufgelegt, ref1J. in moberner j'fafjung bargeooten. \Jetteres
gUt bon bet neuen ~ajwet 5.lutgerausgabe, bie in fed)s munnen bie bebeutcnbften
\Sd)riften )]ut~ers au bringen gebenft. 'Iler borliegcnbe 180nb ent~iilt IJut~et!l
man-eben aum lJleuen ::teftament, feine lUuslegung bes !ffiagniprats unb feine ~lus"
{egung bes (\Ja(atetbriefes (151!J). i'tber bas ganBe mue!) ll1irb fid) bet luH)erifd)e
::t~eolog nur bon &';)eqen frellen, tto~bem bie &';)etausgeber notgebrungcn mandje
~eHe etluas aofiiqen mullten. (!;S tuill uns auel) fd)einen, aHl ~abe nie ~Jloberni<
fjetung bon IJut~ed; 'Ileutfd) ber lIDue!)t feinet Ei~tac~e ettllas IUbbrucl) getan. IUlle
l>tei::teile bes 18ud)es finb bon ungemeinet lIDid)tigfeit fUt bas merftiinbniS ber
Eid)riftlel)te, IDie fie ~utlJcr botgetragen I)at. 'Ilie bdanntc Ilaffifel)c ~in(eitung
IJut~ets 3um ffiiimerbrief pnbct fid) ~ier unberfiiqt. lIDas bie IUnmerTungen bet
Sjetausgebet oner bes fficbllfteurs Bum @alaterbricf anlangt, f 0 fiinnen luit nidjt
aUem aUftimmen. lUud) bie i'tbcrfd)tiften bet ~aragra1J~en finn nid)t immer gan3
autreffenn. ;;sn Mefer &';)inficl)t gefiill! uns nie ~(usgabe bet @a!atetauslegun\J
IJutl)ets bom :;'laf)te 1925 (lefler. IUber jeber ~aftor luitn fUr &';)eq unb Illmt fo
bie! bon nem Eitubium biefes mudjes gell1ill11en, ball er es luo~1 nes iifteren lefen
tui.b. ~. ~. ~ ret man n.
A History of Christian Thought. By Arthur Ou,shrnnn McGiffert.
Vol. II: The West, f1"Om Tert'1lllian to Erasmus. 420 pages, 5% X 8.
Charles Scribner's, New York. Price, $3.00.
In this second volume of his masterful work Dr. McGiffert surveys
the life and writings of the following men: Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine,
Pelagius, Gregory I, John Scotus Erigena, Anselm, Abelard, Bernard of
Clairvaux, Francis of Assisi, Hugo of St. Victor, PE'ter Lombard, Thomas
Aquinas, Duns Scotus, ,Villiam of Occam, Eckhart, and Erasmus; and
devotes separate chapters to the scholastic teaching on the Sacraments
and to the Church and Papacy. The author's method of giving each man's
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life's story before taking up his te'achings and his use of a clear and
trenchant English adds matmially to the reader's enjoyment of the book.
The fact that he quotes extensively from the writings of his subject makes
it possible to judge the authors own conclusions, with which the reader
will not always find himself in full agreement. There is appended a
bibliography of fourteen pages, covering reference books for the various
chapters, and also a very usable index. W. G. POLACK.
His Life and Ours. By Leslie D. Weatherhead, Author of Jes1ls and Our-
selves and The Tmnstm'ming ]J'riendship. The Abingdon Press, New
York. 361 pages, 51j2 X 7 %,. Price, $2.00.
In a note the publishers of this book say: "This book brings to the
surface wealth from the unfathomable mines of the life of Jesus, so as to
enrich the poverty·stricken lives that most of us live." We quote these
words because they clearly delineate the purpose of this volume. Why
the author should write a book like this is largely explained by his own
rich and varied life. During the World vVar he served as lieutenant in
the Indian army, then as political officer among the Arab tribes, and later
as chaplain to various units of the British army. After the war he 'm'''~8
pastor of the English Church at Madras, lmlia, and he is now minister of
one of the largest 'Vesleyan churches in Great Britain. These varied con-
tacts have moved him to an effort to bring Christ neRrer to the groping,
searching groups in the present-day, far·from-Goel world. The eighteen
chapters of the book contain much apologetic, devotional, and evangelistic
material, but do not move along the lines of orthodox Christian thought.
The great Christian truths of salvation are usually vp,ry much obscured
by that haziness of expression which characterizes modern mediating Angli-
canism and ~Iethodism. The writer's trumpet does not give a clear sound
on practically any of the fundamental truths on which traditional Chris-
tianity has spoken so clearly. This basic fault will bar the book from
confessional Christian circles. J. T. MUELLER.
ilieliete bet fSiiter. 0;ine ~usma~l aus bem @ebetiJfcfJat bet stitcfJe. i\'iit bie
@egenmart ~era1tsgegeben bon D t t 0 5D i e t unb @ e 0 r g f.! e ( big.
{gtfte meHle, \Sanb 1. IDie (\;uangefienfoUerten bes m e i t ID i e t r i cfJ ,
l)erausgegeben bon D t t 0 ID i e t. f.!. @. WaUmannemedag in l3eijl3ig.
112 5eiten 7X9. ~tciiJ: M.4; gebunben: M.6.
~u\3er l3ut!jet !jat meit IDiettictj, betanntlid) l3ut1)crs ~ifcfJgenoffe unb \See
gleitet nactj l]1arvutg 1529 unb .!touutg 1530, jpiiter ~rebiger an bel' 5t. 5eba!buile
titcfJe in Ifltitnberg, bie @ebetslitetatur beil fecfJ3el)nten :;Sa!jtlJunbedil am nad}e
!)altigften beeinfCuflt. <1t mat niictjft bem ffieformatot jelbft ruo!)! ber ~itutg felner
,{3eit. IDies ruat mit fcl)on befannt; abel' erft aus biefcm \SucfJe !jabe icfJ edannt,
ruie ttcfffictj er es berjtal1b, in !ajlibaret .Riir3e unb im tid)tigen 1iturgtfcfJen :tenor
ben :;Sn~aft ber firctjlie!)en 0;bangeHenjletitojlen 3ujammen3ufajfen unb Detenb \JOt
bie 0emeinbe au bringen. IDail ift lnh:lHcfJ objettib HturgifcfJe 5tJtad)e, unb jeber
fann fie!) aus unietet eigenen ~genbe babon iiber3eugen, menn er bie tut3e, ge·
rua1tige .!tDUette am ~age bel' f.!imme1fa~rt (£lJtifti aufmerfjam lieft, Die bort
ruiebergegeoen ift unb mit ben Woden oeginnt: 1I.ld0;tr :;S~ju (£~dfte, bu @3o~n
beil ~1f(er~BcfJften, bet bu fortan nictjt me~r aUf 0;rben arm unb elenb hijt." 50
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if I tS tin betllienft!idjes Wed, bas Ijiet barge ooten tuitI> unb bag flit ieben (6onn"
unD ueftiag einfd}Iieflridj ber ~lvofteTtage eine .IMfefte bringt. SDaliei ift bag ~udj
crud) fd)on in bcfonbcren groBen, d)crrattetiftifd)en %\Jven flit ben firdj1idjen @e'
liraud) gebtllfrt. 9JIit meer)t ift bas ~udj ~crnf ~!tl)crus bem 5iiHeren gettliilmet,
bet fid) geratic bmd) feinc tyorief)ll1lgen libet bie @ebets!iterutut ber \~Uten groae
merbienftc etttloroen J)llt. Wir fefjen bet \:)'ottfetung Diefer 5ammlung mit bier
:;Snteteffe entgcgen. 'illir fjaucn baneben gcregt ein bot eiuigen :;Saljren in bet
futfjctifdjen H'irel)c un[n§ \!anbes etfd)ienenes @ebet/md): "01'crnus: Collects,
Devotions, Li,tan ies, from Llncient and Modern Sources. Edited by Paul
Zeller Strodach, D. D., with a foreword by the Rev. H. E. Jacobs, D. D.,
LL. D.", nnb (Jauen bei Oem iJielen @uten, bas auel) Diefes lettgenannte ~uel) ent,
1) ii It, bod)' aud) ttlieber ben Unterfel)ieb gemerft. &:lier ~nlcljnung auel) an tiimifd)'
tatl)olifdje @elietc, luie g!eid) aUf ber 3ttleiten 5eite ein @ebet mit ber ~nrebe:
"0 sacred heart of Jesus", bort bei meit SDiettid) cdjte liilififd),!utljerifd)e @ebets"
1+lt ad) L 53, ~ it r b ri n g e r.
Our Movie-Made Children. By Henry Jarnes F01'man. The Macmillan
Co., New York. 288 pages, 5'4X7%. Price, $2.50.
This book is not written by a conservative Lutheran, but is a publica-
tion resulting from the work of the Payne :Fund and its Committee on Edu-
cational Res,cal'ch. The committee has dispassionately alld objectively studizd
the modern American movie (and talkie), and the author presents the re-
sult of these studies uncleI' chapter headings like the following: The Scope
of Motion-pictures; Who Goes to the Movies?; What Do They See?; How
Much Do They Remember?; Movies and Sleep; Other Physical Effects;
Horror and Fright Pictures; Movies and Conduct; The Path to Delinquency;
Movie -made Crimill;,ls; Sex Delinquency and Crime, ancl others. The
charges, on the whole, are of a nature to make the readcr shudder. Moving
pictures, in themselves a remarkable opportunity for educational endeavor
of thc very highest kind, have been desecrated and prostituted until they
now, in general, serve the lowest instincts of man. The study of the com-
mittee shows, among other things, that the weekly movie audience in
America numbers 77,000,000, of which number one-seventh consists of chil-
dren under fourteen years of age. The author quotes from the findings
of Dr. Edg