New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-06


to The Transforming Of the whole Book OF COM
mon PRAYER in accordance with the new Social
vision While there is no doubt that liturgy
meeting Dr. Colts specifications would rehec' d
Christian humanism, it is scarcely adolIlOlie1
praise TO say that a wOrshipper could resort u
The amended service book without 1ear ol e11
countering other worldliness or being oolheIeu
about his immortal soul
Professor Charles Gray Shaw, N me
cinc+ Of Religion in the Culture OF huI
sb,z,s AFFINITY with Schleiermacher IN FeIa'iNs
religion to aesthetic intuition heisioii
theory Of the world or of human life II Is i'seiL
q world life characterized by social wants ailu
ir5i,.id,,aI deeds Man worships and ne crea'eS
or+ NOT because these tendencies are necessary
or useful but because Of some inner
which his own spirit makes on MN AHei
an essential connection between the splf'tue an
the aesthetic It IS the holy vocauoh OF d. ~
to,,cb the humanity of man so hghuy lla' II
80. M stain Of 5nitude IN his soul When the
subject beholds the beautiful object ne eiHp'eS
himself Of his interest and partahties' and as
oonon1e+e personality he is pervaded by pure
/ concentration It is just this attitude OF com
r,lete contemplation which fills the soul Win d
religious signif -ance. Man is somewhat Hloie
than himself while the world is no longer ms
but belongs to the infinite
II the author seems to narrow the scope Oh re-
. IipiOu is
force its claims within It's proper sphere, and his
painstaking analysis leaves the reader convinced
that. although the field of religion is not so
broad as culture itself it is more intense IN the
search for the fundamental in thought and the
final in life: and as Schiller said, religion must
pass away only with hunger and love.
Five lectures on the Bross foundation deliv-
cred before Lake Forest College by j. Arthur
Thomson are published with the title, The Bible
of Nature" Professor Thomson, who has the
chair of natural history in the University OF
Aberdeen, makes an inquiry as TO possible
contribution of Science toward recognition OF
the spirituality OF nature. At first Science may
/ seem to draw in its horns and TO refuse aid IN
this direction but It is better than its word, for
1t discloses nationality order, unity and progress.
with hint also Of evolutionary purpose. To
I the healthy minded the world is full Of Won
der now as It was in ancient times, and the
sense of wonder which is at the roots Of science
and philosophy is always servant TO the inter
/ ests of religion. Much of the misunderstanding
. in the minds Of those who have imagined an OPP
/ position between a scientific and a religious view
Of the universe has been due to the failure to
see that the word ultimate" does not occur In
/ the scientific dictionary. The outlook of Science
is in no way inconsistent with the emotional
outlook. says Professor Thomson. but it seems
fairly obvious that one must not try to make
( one sentence of the two statements 20 wunder-
/ sch0n ist Gottes Erde, ind schon auf ihr Elm
/ Mensch "a sein," and Bodies attract one
other with a force proportional directly TO the
product of their masses and inversely the
| square Of their mutual distance"
Since the Rev. Reginald j Campbell Of the
City Temple. London, became sponsor for one
| of the numerous extant brands of new theol-
| ogy" he has paid the double penalty Of being
| regarded by his admirers oracle and by
| the rest of English churchmen "renfant ter
| rible'' Of the ecclesiastical household. The
strength and weakness of Mr.. Campbelrs posi-
/ ton come into view In his latest volume of ser
! MONS Thursday Mornings at the City Tenn
/ Pile" In theology Mr.. Campbell is impression
istic. Whenever he gets new idea he runs to
| the forum with it and makes rather fretful ref
! erences both to the doctrnal darkness from
! which he has emerged and TO his more orthodox
! contemporaries who will not leave the cavern
gloom. Yet such foible may be forgotten
! one discovers the straightforwardness Of the
preacher. his emphasis on the ethical rigor Of
! the Gospel teaching. his invincible confidence in
| the moral government Of the universe. The
-worldness at which Mr. Campbell in
Weighs is the religiosty that substitutes creed
for human. service. With other worldliness' he
does not at all confuse the high contemplation in
/ which the saints have found peace for he him
self believes and breaches the immediacy and
| inwardness Of communion with God, and the
. promise Of personal Immortality.
The Indebtedness OF Bible students to Pro-
| fessor George Adam, Smith is increased by the
publication Of two highly important volumes on
/ Jerusalem: The Topography, Economics and His
| tory from the Earliest Times to A. D. 10" The
author combines the qualities Of exactness in
the details Of research and appreciation Of the
broad claims of his subject, singular city in
the world with a mission to mankind. What the
. topographer's difficulties are be gathered
/ from Dr. Smiths summary of the vicisstudes Of
the City's life. Jerusalem has endured twenty
sieges and assaults Of the utmost severity, al
/ most twenty more bockades military
pations and about eighteen reconstructions OF
large extensions. Earthquakes have periodical
. " rocked the town. and the continuity of her
/ story has been even more disastrousIy severed
by five abrupt passages from one religion to
another more than outbreak Of fanatic
/ superstition creating and taseless tradition.
as well as the long, careless chatter about the
holy sites which has still further confused
! obliterated the genuine memories Of the past"
The Illustrated Bible Dictionary edited by
the Rev. William {. Percy, makes a compact
volume. of nearly thousand pages. OF the
/ hundred contributors a good number Church
/ Of England clergymen and the general tone is
conservative The article on the New Tesla
rnent canon tells US that in criticism Harnack
has taken the place Of Paulus. Strauss and
Raur as the hero of the moment. His concIu-
sions are different, but his methods the
/ same The prophet Jonah is identified with the
son Of Amittai and thus offered as an historic
nersonage. and the writer urges that the actual
itv Of Jonah's experience in the fish should not
! Ia denied ON some other open questions the