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THE GOSPEL OF HISTORY.
PROF. TOTTEN's NEW AND RE-
MARKABLE WORK.


Fulfilled in This, the Fifth Age.
From the New York Sun.
Prof. Charles A. L. Totten, ex-arnly Of
fcer and ex-professor of military tactics
at Yale, has just completed a new trangla-
ton of the Four Gospels. and he asserts
that he has done that which has not been
accomplished heretofore, viz, their COM
pete harmonza ion. There have been sew
eral hundred "Harmonized Gospels" made.
90 that the idea is not new one but
Prof. Hotten has not joined ehe army of
those whose work was merely an effort to
change the authorized version. nor even to
alter the revised version. He has aimed
at Interpretation quite as much as at
translation, and has not only held closely
TO the literal Greek, but to the spirit CT
its own Hebrew, or the Syro- Phoenician
antecedent text Likewise he has rein
terpreted them. with a. complete line of
references, and divided the whole chrono-
logically, so as to satisfy astronomy. his
tory, prophecy and fulilment All the
geography and genealogy involved are
likewise marshalled in the array of proof
submitted, and whatever the previous
condition of mental servitude" of the
reader, Prof. Totten's work will command
attention. His TRANSACTIONS in some in
stances are new renderings. yet are adapt
ed according to the original texts and
yet they fit the Greek as well as the
heart, and satisfy the common sense"
says the author.
The plan upon which the first volume of
this interviewer harmony of Matthew and
Mark, Luke and john is published at
present is the hyphenatng of all words
that arise out of any single Greek one
each group representing Greek word
For instance, in the first verse of the first
chapter of Luke eleven Greek words are
found and eleven hyphenated English
words are their translated equivalent. The
work is to beissued finally in interlienated
Greek and English, with an accurate word
for word resultant translation down the
margin. The present volume contains the
facts of the life of Christ harmonized and
interviewer from the -Four Gospels. and
accompanying it is AN index printed under
seperate cover. The specific indexes to
the Gospels Of the Four Evangelsts and
their collaterals will enable the reader TO
find out exactly whence their evidence is
consolidated into Totten's interviewer
Harmany.
The work is subdivided into parts. Pc
RODS, lessons, chapters. sections, para
graphs, verses and lines. and time and
place are specified, with constant refer
ence everywhere to the New Testament
as at preent Familiarity subdivided into
Gospels, chapters and verses. Readers
can thus verify everything for them
selves.
The work is the result of years of
study, and in it Prof. Totten says he has
established these facts, viz: That AS
tronomy is the backbone of chronology,
that chronology is the marrow therein Of
history, and that inspiration, in dealing
prophetcally in the Old Testament, and
historically in the New, with the data
involved, is Itself involved Gas to its in
tegrity, if its claims thereto are to be
admitted as establisheD in the adjust
ment or harmony of all the elements that
enter into the demons ira ton. All these
things center upon the Messiah, whose
life is detailed in the New Testament. In
Prof. Tottens Gospel of History" this
is done, not only historically, as Jesus of
Nazareth. the Son of Man" but proph-
etically, as after the order of Melchize-
dek," fulfilling all the prophecies on time
and in place. In a word, the Four Cos
pels are harmonized historically and ad-
justed chronologically to the actual secu-
lar and sacred history involved.
Prof. Totten calls his work the Fifth
Gospel, because it is consolidated out of
the four harmonized and interviewer. He
says that he has discovered the key 10
the absolute harmony of the whole Gospel,
and that he has succeeded in the task Of
Intervening the testimony of all the
witnesses to each event, topic by topic
by the Greek itself-and in consolidating
the whole in one fluent Gospel.
Prof. Totten. who has spent many years
In the study of the Identity Question"
as it is called and who contends that the
English people represent the lost tribe
of Manasseh. while the United States are
the Brother Jonathan" OF Ephtatm, as
serts that Israel is now about to in
hertt in this, the Fifth Age, the Fifth
Empire" and that the prophecies of the
Scripture are now to be fulfilled and that
this country is the Fifth Empire" and
is to lead the world, with its Anglo-SaX-
on principle Of Christian liberty and pro-
gress
Prof, Totten's Gospel of History" Is
certainly as remarkable as any of the
startling things he predicts for this clos
Ing year of the century. Perhaps no bet-
ter idee of his method of work could be
given than the prologue of Luke, which
he offers as an example, in the six forms
In which 1t appears in the six English
versions compared with his own. They
are as follows:
Authorized Version.
King James.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand
to sat forth in order declaration of
those things which are most surely be-
heVed among us,
Even as they delivered them unto us,
which from the beginning were eye-wit-
nesses, and ministers of the word;
1t seemed good 10 me also, having had
perfect understanding of all things from
The very first, TO write unto thee in or
der. most excellent Theophilus.
That thou mightest know the certainty
Of those things, wherein thou hast been
instructed.
Emphatic DiaeIOtt.
Wilson.
Since many have undertaken to prepare
History of those facts, which have been
tully established among us,
even as those, who were from the be-
ginning Eye-witnesses and Dispensers of
the word delivered them to us.
Il seemed proper for me also, having
accurately traced all things from the first,
10 write TO Thee in consecutive order,
Most excellent Theophilus.
that thou mayest know the certainty of
The Words, concerning which thou hast
been Taught
Revised Version.
AngIo-Amcricnn.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand
10 draw up a narrative concerning those
matters which have been fulfilled among
US.