The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-14
THE RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Tho New Schan- He,zog Encyclopedia OF
Religious knowledge. Edited by Ssmne
tor In Chief. With the Assistance o.
Charles Colebrook sherman and George
William Gilmore. NJ A.. Associate E.di-
tors Volume V. Published by Funk
and wagnalls Company. New York
This is a continuation of the twelve
volume edition of this great cncyclope'
.dia OF religion, religious cmipents, and
religious sects Besides the editors
above named, there are the department
cditors-Clarence Augustine Beckwith,
D. D., Department OF SyStemdatiES syst E Inc, ne
partment Of Minor Dcnomi nations;
James Francis Driscoll, ID. Depart
ment of Liturgies and Religious Or
ders; James Frederic McCurdy, PhD,,
LID. Department of the Old Iesta-
mcnt; Henry Sylvester Nash. DID: De
partmcnt Of the New Testamenti Albert
Henry Newman. ID, LID; Depart
Horace Vizetelly, F.S.A. Department of
Pronunciation and Typography. This
volume takes US from ''Goar,' saint
Of the early ages of Christianity on
the Rhine, TO Pope Innocent III, All
of the titles as treated show scholar
ship, ability, and the freedom from uD-
substantial tradition that has character
is respected as matter of course where
it is we'll founded. but where it is not
1t rs displaced by the most accurate
knowledge of recent times The num-
her of topics treated IN this volume is
1sS: the number of cola borators par
ricipating in the preparation and revi-
sion Of the articles, lol: number OF
pages, sos.
This volume contains a plumber of
very interesting and timely articles on
archaeological subjects. among which
Professor George II. Gilmore S coutrl.
button on Hammurabi and His Code
easily takes precedence. This code was
discovered at Persepolis in 1901 by Pro
tcssor Morgan, and is estimated TO have
contained some 5000 words il belongs
10 Il period some $3.50 years before
Christ, and is the earliest great code
of laws known, although that code re
fcrs explicitly 10 the claws of Aleppo,
evidently an older compilation even
than Hammurabi s.
The historical features of the vol
runcs arc strong and particularly help
ful to all Bible students; Prot; Newman
writes of 1.-The Holy Roman Empire ';
DIR. Uhlhorn contributes a valuable va
pcr on 'The Gotbs -; Prof, Lacheu
mann has been chosen TO furnish the
important article on ''Thc Huguenots -
and takes several pages for his work;
DIR. Bcuzingcr is intensely interesting
in mis- ''lIcbrcw Handicrafts >; Prof.
ilmorc writes OF - Ticrod and His Fam
ilv' and Of "The Hittites "a nation
unknown 10 historians except through
The Bible narrative; Prof. Adolpb Deiss-
mann has been selected to write the
article on Hellcnistic Greek. while
DR. Buhl is the authority on .'Hebrcw
Language and Literature -: Prof.
Davis, OF Princeton, has written the
article on ''Thc HeXatcurh.
In tbe biographical line. this volume
is fully thc equal of any of its pre-
dcccSsors. Some twenty pages are de-
voted ia tho sixteen popos who bore the
title Of Gregory, and 10 the several
Protestant divincs who were distin-
gaisbed also by the name Of Greg
ory '-sucb as "Grcgorv of Tours,
Gregory Of Utrecht - ''Grcgory of
NvSsa, etc. In } similar way. the
name Of innocent. as applied TO thir
teen p0pcs and one anti-pope. is amply
''Grootc, who founded the order of
The Brethren Of the Common Life y
j chronlclcd hr Prof. Ludwig SchulZc.
Prof. Hauck, editor Of the German Her
2oc. writes OF g Gottschalk. - e" Johann
Ilolmann. Hattn Of MainZ, 'Gui-
bert of Rayeuna, and others. ''John
Harvard. founder of Harvard Univer-
sitv; % Frances Ridley Havergal,' - the
hvmn writer. and - Patrick Hamilton -
tho protu MARTYR of the Scottish Refor-
maiton are not forgotten. Prof. IIar-
mack has written the brief biographies
Of ''St. Hclcna. "Gratian.' - "Hcli-
dorus. and 6 Hcraclas. - while Prof.
Strack contributes the article on "Hil-
lei. the Jewish rabbi of Hcrod g time
Archibald, - " Caspar,' and "Cbarlcs
Hodge arc each the subject Of brief
articles by DR.. Francis l.. Patton, Of
Princeton.
Among the theological subjects ono of
the FIRST TO be mentioned is that by
Prof. G.. \. Beckwith on Good. - Civ
ing IN Iucid aud brief manner the
Old Testament conception of God, the
New Testament conception OF the Faith
erhood Of God, and a summary Of the
various conceptions OF God as held by
ancient peoples and modern schools of
theology. Perhaps the next important
article is that on Immortality, by
Prof. Geo. Rune. of Bcrlin-siX ia ges
with copious photographed appendix
Then may be mentioned two articles by
Prof. trcmer on "The Image OF Cod
and - Heaven, while DR.. Dalman, of
lcipsic. writes of "'lIadcs. - "Impu.
tatiou, or "ouc Of ST. Paul s foituda-
ton stones for his argument that in
saving man, God sets 10 his credit
righteousness without works, is ably
treated by Prof. Benjamin W Warfeld
Other suggestive articles arc those BY
Prof. Karl Thicmc, Of Lcipsic, on ''Good
Works and Tho Highest Good -;
. Grace. - by. Prof, Kim; "The HeideI.
berg Cathcchism. by Lautcrburp: