The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03
BURGER DRY GOODS co.

pr. Funk thus: That Christ is coming
 and that His coming is near at hand
 is believed by millions. He is coming | but how?" Dr. Funk meaning that Christ | will come again and soon. The question | he discusses in his little book is in just | what shape. manner or form will Christ | reappear upon this earth? In spiritual | form? In the hearts of his followers or
 as a physical being?
 | Such thoughts as: ''To the Roman sol- | diers who may have heard it, how unsub | stantial was the sermon on the mount; f; yet it's truths of the brotherhood of man of the fatherhood of God, of meel<ness, of | loving, of justice, of faith in the inner | things, outlasted the Roman armies, saw | the empire ground to dust and their speaker 1900 years afterward by far the
 most potent personality that ever lived. | 'We look back all along the conflict of | the ages of evolution; we see now in the | changes of the dunghill into shrubs and roses and into food-the prophecy of all and we marvel at our blindness in not knowing that the most manifest thing in all the world and at all times was God the Father working for good whom again
 and again We have compelled to cry out
 in pain Qor God can suffer pain) The re- 1 breaches of men have broken my heart
 Looking backward We begin to see the | good in everything-that there is not a | fall of a sparrow without accompan ying ! provision for the sparrow and we grow 1 enthusiastic and shout with the martyr of
 old Glory be to God for everything that | happens. Hand in hand we walk with i the great Father over the ages of history, l riding victorious over mountain tops
 run through this charming book. Dr.. Funk treats evolution as do the scientists.
 such as Huxley. Darwin, etc, with this
 all important difference that the begin
 mir ,c ol, lei fl.a,,, t1,a t,I
 eral the animal and man, must have
 come first from above-simply because no evolution theory yet worked out will show any possibility of plant ever evoluting l into an animal, an animal into a man or even a mineral into a plant. Just such
 books as The Nextl Step in Evolution"
 bring delight and comfort to all and particularly when We are flooded these
 days with books whicn endeavor to upset all religious thought and training For
 instance this review department received
 a book the other day composed of lec-
 lures for and against the proposition:
 Did Jesus Ever Liver" One debater
 arguing that no such person ever lived
 on this earth--that he was a myth and
 so on. The other debater, who was none else than Dr. Crapsy, who was turned out of the Episcopal church, argued that
 Jesus did live and so forth.
 So that Dr. Funks dear little books S timely--it will give great pleasure and
 So that Dr. Funks dear little book IS
 a great sale.
 A Hole in the. Coat. By Charles Eddy.
 (Cassell X Company Ltd)
 This review department is not by any
 means anything on the order of the
 Anglomaniac, but often, too often it IS
 forced to call attention to the way in which some (not alb English writers of the light and heavy novels seem to excel the American authors. It appears to be simply in the difference of treat ment of the subjects Long time ago. Mir Dickens used to take about three