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eopal Church ever written. This Judgment has
been confirmed BY the reading public. The book
has been read with unfaring interest alike by
Episcopalans and -Episcopalians and prob
ably no ether agency has done more to bring
into general knowledge the history and pecu-
harities Of the Episcopal Church. From time
to time DR.. Mcconnell has made corrections
and improvements in the work and in this
eighth edition he brings ii down to cate As
illustrating the spirit that animated the author
we may quote the following paragraph from the
preface:
shall try to tell the story of what it 6he
Episcopal Church, has accomplished, and to
speak candidly of its eXcellencies and its faults
history should above all things else be true
Glozing Of faults and apooEyizing for wrong
DEEDS is not the part 81 an honest friend i or ..
have the truth told even about herself.
In the telling Of the story large space will be
coupled in examining the religious character
and habits Of those among and upon whom the
church has wrought. She has done great things
for them. whereof they are not ashamed to say
they are glad but they have also done UGH
for her. The Episcopal Church has been far
more profoundly modified by her environment
here than her members realize Some Of her
more cherished possessions have come to her
from without In many cases she has never
known or has long since forgotten the name
OF the giver. but still holds and values the gift
AS a result of this impartial and historical
attitude DR.. McConnelrs history has an interest
and value for others than Episcopalians. In
deed. old time EpiscopaIians viii find much in
the book that VIII be unpalatable to them. It's
writer does not believe that the Episcopal
denominations are outside the church. Appar-
entity he holds that they truly com
nlissioned to teach religion his church
is He has small respect for the drill and pipe
clay Of ecclesiasticisr, and cares nothing per
Sc for ecclesiastical traditions He believes
that the Protestant Episcopal Church often
made serious mistakes, that it was at times
held by pride, prejudice and error. and that
had the country depended on it alone for
ligiCus enlightenment its case would have been
desperate indeed. As we read this straight
forward chronicle of the Episcopal Church in
what is the United States. wonder is
not that # grew SO slowly, but that it survived
a. all:
When William Meade wa ordained deacon at
Williamsburg in 1911. two ladies and fifteen
gentlemen, most Of them his relatives. formed
the congregation The church was dIapidated
and the windows were broken. There were grave
suspicious that the bishop himself CMadison)
had renowned the Christian faith Infidelity
was then rife in the State and the College Of
OF French politics and religion. No minister had
been ordained for years, save one unworthy
people that a young man of good family,
educated man, a graduate Of Princeton should
enter the ministry of the Episcopal Church.
The volume is embeIlished by some excellent
portraits and a good index.
Charles Scribners Sons issue an admirable
little handbook by Professor James Stevenson
Riggs, Of the Auburn Theological Seminary en-
titled "a History of the Jewish People During
the Maccabean and Roman Periods dncluding
New Testament Tines" It contains a chart
numerous map and a copious index The same
publishers bring out THE Messages of Paul" by
Professor George Barker Stevens of Yale which
gives paraphrase of the first ten of the Epistles
f Paul arranged in their chronological order
With brief introductions and analyses We are
glad to commend the book to students of the
Bible Another book from these publishers is
the second volume of st. PauTs Epistle to the
Romans" by Canon Charles Gore, of Westmin-
ster. The work shows evidences Of learning and
painstaking effort. But the authors fondness
for preaching very solemn and very trite ser
mons at every available point results in giving
the reader considerably more of Gore than St
Paul which seems a little unfortunate
Eaton Main0 bring out the sixth volume Of
Bishop Randolph S. Fosters learned and ex-
haustive Studies in Theology 1t is entitled
"Sin," and it gives clearly, though necessarily at
some length. all that has been said on the sub
5ect by the greatest Christian theologians Cas-
sell & Co publish satisfactory life Of the
late Rev. Or. Charles A. Berry, Of Wolverhamp-
ton by James S Drummond. who was fellow
student with him The American Baptist Pub
hcation Society, Of Philadelphia issues little
volume that Baptists. especially those in New
York will read with interest 1t is entitled
"reminiscences Of Baptist Churches and Baptist
Leaders in New-York City and Vicinity from
800 TO lS5S." and has been prepared by George
h Hansell with introduction by the Rev
DR.. W. H. z. Faunce
"A Problem in New Testament Criticism is
the title Of little volume by Professor Me
larcthon Williams Jacobus, Of the Hartford
Theological Seminary. originally delivered as
the stone lectures at Princeton, and issued by
Charles Scribner's Sons. Among the questions
discussed by the author are the source and
authorship Of the Synoptic Gospels. the fourth
Gospel and the Apocalypse, the Canonicity Of
Second Peter. and the Pauline authorship Of the
Epistle TO the Hebrews. These and the doctrinal
questions growing out of them are discussed by
the author with clearness. force and scholarship
The same publishers bring out most excellent
and informing book entitled Puritan Preach
ing in England: Study Of Fast and Present"
by John Brown D. T.. being the Lyman Beecher
lectures on preaching at Yale University for
1899. Another book issued by the Scribners is
1.-THE Christian and Civic Economy Of Large
Towns" by DIT. Thomas Chalmers. with an in
PRODUCTION by Professor Charles r. Henderson,
OF the University of Chicago Though this well
known work by DR.. Chalmers contains views
that are in some respects obsolete 1t also con-
tains much that is applicable to the problems
of the present day.
The sixth and seventh volumes Of "IIarnack's
History of Dogma" little. Brown & Coz will
he welcomed by all who have been privileged
10 read the preceding volumes Of this brilliant
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