Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
"ThaI Unknown Country.o

Professor George P. Fisher, of Yale, that \ scholarly historian of Christianity compiled \ the most valuable chapter in the new work i issued this week, entitled "That Unknown | Country" Fifty chapters follow, the por-
 trait and signature of the author of each pre- | ceding it, and his signature appearing also al the end of the chapter. These portraits are exceedingly good likeneHses, and they are handsomely engraved.
 The " Springfield Republican" says: "It will be interesting to learn just who they are that in this book discuss the weighty topic
 There are fifty of these men. The old Ro- man Catholic church is represented by Csr- dinal Manning and Rev. Dr. Augustine F. Hewitt, superior of the Paulist Fathers. Stanley Lane Poole states the Mohammedan belief, Prof. Rhys-Davids the Buddhist, Prof. James Leggs of Oxford university the Chinese faiths. French Professionalism is represented by Rev. Dr. De Pressense, the Swiss Calvinists by Prof. Godet i; and Professor Luthardt of thexAuniver- sity of Leipsic speaks for the German theolo- gians. The Church of England writers are Arehdeacon Farrsr, Rev. T. w. Fowle, rec tor of Islip, and Prof. George G. Stokes of the University of Cambridge. The English Congrsgationslists speak through Prof. Ed ward White of New college, London; the English Baptists by Prof. Joseph Angus of AOSSshoAi copal church has for spokesman Bishop F. n. Huntington of central New York and Burlington, Vt. These are the Con- gregationalists: Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott of Plymouth church, Rev. pr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, President Bartlett of Dart mouth college, Rev. Dr. Washington Glad den of Columbus, O.; Rev. pr. Charles F. Thwing of Minneapolis, Prof. George Harris of Andover. The Presbyterians are: Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, Rev. Dr. Joseph T. Smith Qate moderator of the general assem- bly), Rev. L. 0. Baker Rev. T. Dewitt Tal- mage. Unitsrisns have for representatives Edward Everitt Hale and Prof. Andrew P. Peabody. Rev. 0. Pritchard of Chicago sets forth the Friends faith. Presi- dent Schultze of the Bethlehem theological seminary that of the Moravians; Rev. Dr. Abram 8. Isaacs, editor of the Jewish Messenger, that of the Jews The Universalists are Rev. Dr. Miner and Rev. Dr. John Coleman Adams of Chicago Rev. Ohauncey Giles speaks for the New church, Swedenborgian. Methodism is de- livered through Bishop Fowler, Editor Buck ley of the Christian Advocate, President Cummings of Northwestern university and Bishop Hendrix of the church South. Lush- eranism is in the words of Prof. Richard of the theological seminary at Springfield, O., Editor Conrad of the Lutheran Observer and Prof. Jacobs of Philadelphia Evangelical seminary. IheTe are two "Chr1stlans," !" Pres- ident Long of Antioch college and Rev. Dr. M. Summerbell. Prof Emilius V. Gerhardt of the German Reformed seminary at Lancaster,
 Pa.; Rev. Dr.J.W. Holt, editor of the United
 Brethrens paper, the Religious Telescope;
 Rev. Dr. MacArthur of the Calvary Baptist
 church, New York; Rev. Dr. A. H. Lewis,
 editor of the Seventh day Baptist paper in
 Plain6eld, N.J., Rev. Dr. W. J. R. Taylor of
 the Dutch Reformed church, and the two
 Chicago independents, Prof. Swing and Dr.
 Thomas, complete this interesting list.
 Many of these men are famous, all of them
 are able, and they are we'll chosen to show the great variety of thought in the Christian church, and to illuminate it by comparisons with other religions and with the historic progress of doctrine. There is no doubt but that this is now the crucial point of dispute and diversity among Christians, whence the new departures from all Protestant bodies radiate, being thrown of by centrifugal force, as it were, from the teaching of an eternal, that is, & never ending hell (of whatsoever sort) for those who do not &C., cept a certain scheme of salvation. Yet in this book we have such various opinions as represented by Edward Everett Hale, that retribution, 8 mans reaping what he sows, must go on
 after life as we'll as in it, but that it is pre-
 Posterous idea that God has divided human
 beings by an arbitrary line, into saved and
 lost, or that he has mapped off one place ID sne universe as heaven and another as hell; aa expressed by Prof. Harris of And-