New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-19

them, With all their faults, have 4e simplicity Of
spirit, and in ono or two there is the truly heroic
mold Let il be said again hereEhat one is speak
srg only now of the frst-rank lien, such as noun
taineers alone meet. There ERE few who have ever
spent fortnight with ono Il these men but have
felt themselves warmed by che contact with q tenn
Der OF true worth, and nq<Oecupaton ever promotes
intercourse so frank End complete as that Of Al
pine climbing. In Ito long and important expc-
Gitiops one is often. for week. ten days, or even
month, almost alonc with ones guides upon the
mountains. Day Midnight they march, rest, eat
and sleep side By side, share one flask and one rug,
and DRAG each other alternately across a crevasse.
For. be il remembered the trust and help is con-
tjnuous and mutual. Men tied together by rope
on the side of an ice precpicc soon come 20 under
stand each others natural tempers and gifts, and
care singularly little for the artificial accidents
Conventional reserve, however thick'y coated,
sbriye,s off FROM men who owe each ether their
lives several times day And il is strange how
naturally it comes to shake the horniess and the
grimiest of hands which are strong enough to drag
ono ont of nasty creyasse. \ week or two spent
with men like these, listening to their songs, tales
and Jokes, seeing then habits OF ob;eryauon, In
terested in their skill, giving full rein 10 tie sense
of trust, sympathy and felow-iecliDg, is TO go
down TO the root Of the matter in human nature.
Day BY day,one wonders afTesh at theis dos-iiSe
instinct Of place, their more than dog-Eke Iaihihl-
meas, their readiness in continuance and fertility OF
resource, their quckness and zeal in meeting the
waits Of the moment, and one lives over again
some of .he earliest OF our ianees, and remembers
the stories Of poetry and Acton, the old trapper OF
Cooper, the old hghlanders If Scott, the old yoy-
ayers and discoyorers, and tho inlml,abie Crusoc
of our hillhood.",
The new popular work Of Strauss On he "Life Of
Jesus" is the subject Of high commendaion IN
an elaborate article. This volume is not intended
10 supersede the former celebrated scholarly work
of the author, but is substantially an original pro-
duction, aiming 10 present the results of modern
critical research in form adapted TO tie people,
and correcting and completing tie treatise which
for nenrly thirty years has held such
q conspicuous place in theological controversy.
" Possessing less OF eruditc detail this new Life
of Jesus is distinguished by diEcetness and
thoroughncss of purpose which is more than an
equivalent for such OMISSION aud Strauss is right R
that wha. il loses in learning Il gains III
frank ntelligiblity-thatwhle the meaning Of other
writers may be disputed, his is never obscured by
reservation. The mere antiquarian or historical in
terest which some theoogians affect il nightly sub
ordinated by our author 20 tie moral interest.
Christianity being living force, and the question
of its origin involving such momentons practical
d.. h.
primary ones argues an intellectual simplicity in
which il difficult 10 believe. In this spirit our
fearless author undertakes TO re-write his Leben
Jesu,' and admirably does he accomplish his task
the latest results of the advanced
theological criticism Of Germany, so Gar Us he ac
cepts them acknowledging the splendid services
of the great leader Of the 1ubingen school, DIR. +.
c. Baur; recognizing the depth aud patient indus
Try Of Zellcr accepting u suggestion from Hilgen-
field; modifying, combining, illustrating, Strauss
has produced book which, while it contains tho
most complete and satisfactory solution OF the great
religious problem with which it grapples, attests the
candor, courage, and purity of his moral nature the
peno,rptiye force of bis critical genius his marvel
lous acutencss, his discrimination, ssehcity and
happy ingenuity"
In tho early part OF his book Strauss attempts
to discriminate between the historical and unhis
toIica elements in the evangelical records, with
view 10 the approx Innate construction Of the true
life Of Jesus, Of whom they give SO fragmentary and
imperfect a report According 10 Strauss, the only
correct data ior forming estimate Of the spiritual
nature OF Jesus must be sought in the great central
iscourses preserved in the Synoptic Gospels-pre-
emincntly in the Sermon on the Mosnt. At the
OF this sermon, the words OF Jesus
which announce the coming Of new life and
thought into tho world, fall like iertlizns rain in
SPRING Equally opposed to the traditional views
IF Judaism and the Ethnc world, the Christian |
Paradoycs or Beatitudcs form the introduction TO
totally different philosophy Of life. No longer the
-ch and joyous, bn. the poor and sorrowiul, Sc
cced as representatives, Of genuine happiness. H.
ernal peace is substituted for outward satisfaction
md Tho resources of the sou are preferred TO the
pleasures OF sense, with promise OF future and
acquisition rather than Of present and
,arthly possession. This substitution Of spiritual
or material happiness leads 10 the exaltation OF
motive and disposition asthc true springs of action
n contrast 20 tho external and mechanical morality
If the Pharisees. In insisting On purity of thought
implicitly ot language, patience and forgiveness,
esus nppea,s rs the opposing counterpart Of the
imitiyc lawgiycr with his savage statute Of retail
ton. His anti-Jewish and original conception OF
he patcrnal observation-disclosures Of God, who lets the
ain iall and the sun shine TO evil no less than
n the good, leads Jesus to apply to him one of the