The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-23
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Henry 8 Mash, professor in the Episco-
pal ,heoloxfcai school at Cambridge. has
published a series OF seven lectures under
the title Ethics and Revelation" The
authors scholarship and abtHty, with his
advanced stand on questions touching the
ology and the church. make the book well
worth careful study. There 10 nothing
narrow or doguatic in il. The author in
sists that the church must meet the OBJ
jections Of outsiders in candid spirit.
and wrestie with the problems OF the day
in the arena Of practical life. The notion
OF insailibility must be put aside The
idea Of infaiMtality." says the author.
goes along with an imperfect or faulty
conception q personality and OF the SUI
pernatural. II was at home in the world
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world which saw the lay life lose its sap
and spiritual significance But 1t 10
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rich sap and spiritual meaning. and IN q
present which has the prophetic afflaius,
and knows itself TO be in direct connection
with things divine. things permanently in
teresting." The discussion throughout Is
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to get clearer conception OF the relation
Of scientific ethics 10 religion will find
much assistance in q thoughtful study OF
this book-not a cursory reading. for 1t
is not to be comprehended so easily. The
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is chapter on "Old Cambridge In Three
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"A Pocket History OF the American
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