The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
THE RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA.

George William Gilmore. NJ. A.. (AsSo
ciate Editorsl. and the tolloWing de, de
Reckwith p. p. department OF SysS
tematic Theology: Henry King Carroll
LII. u. Department OF Minor penom
inations); James Francis Driscoll, D,
department or l.iturgics and Religious
orders): James Frederic McCurdy. Ph
q. IL, d. Department Of the = o,S h
d. D. Department of the New Tes!a'
ment; Albert Henry Newman, -
LII. D: pepsrtment, OF Church = His
Department OF Pronunciation and
Typography). In Twelve Volumes Vol
ume VII. Morality-petersen, Pub
Iished by Funk and Wasnalls Company
This dne large volume IN the great great
with l51 collaborators, and has I?ls
pages The complete set OF twelve
volumes will aggregate 5000 pages
will treat of $4,000 topics, and VIII
be written by more than 500 editors
and collaborators. The cost of pro.
duction will be 100000.
This eighth volume of the New
Shnff- Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious
knowledge has Just been received
from the press of the publishers. They
arc issuing volume every three
months, and four more are YET to ap-
pear to complete the work. The pres
ent volume begins with Morality, -
and brings the work down TO and in
cluding the subject Petersen, the
eminent Norwegian theologian.
Among the many important and In
tcresting subjects treated in the vol
ume, that on "Peace Movements by
the Secretary Of the American Pence
Society, Ben iamin +. Trueblood, is IN
duestionably of highest interest, The
authors opening words rightly at
tribute the remarkable progress of IN
ternntional peace movements to the
leavcning power of Christianity work
as we'll as of individuals. The great
group of truths which lie so close TO
the heart Of Christianity-the father
hood of God, the essential oneness and
brotherhood Of mankind, the forgive.
ness of injuries. disintercsted service
for others, seif.sacrihcc. patience
these, and many more, preached from
pulpit and press. and embodied IN con
crete examples. such as the endowment
heart and money in times of national
distress-have softcned the rcvengefuh
greedy spirit of man. and turned his
thoughts more and more 10 the melody
Of the heavenly choir s Son earth.
peace, good will toward men, The
duel had FIRST TO go. then war. When
Napoleon s career came to an end IN
1915 the first Peace Society was formed.
Although MANY bloody wars have since
iutervened, still the peace advocates
have gone on, undismayed, till at last,
all but two powers OF the earth
(and these inferior ones) have prac-
'tically become members of the great
Hague Tribunal. Wlile war is yet a
possibility. It's beginning will be great
" retarded, if not ayerted, by the pres
ent status of the international peace
movement. And in the event OF the
final success of one belligerent, its
coveted prize would be wholly at the
discretion OF the powers. who have be.
come a sort Of "Supreme Court of the
World The last few years have wit
messed 4 remarkable progress Of the
movement. Many intricate and bitter
ma tional contentious. have been wholly
settled by arbitration, and all parties
concerned have accepted the decision
of The Hague with becoming grace.
Perhaps the greatest of all recent
Europeap events was the pacific revo-
luticn in Turkey, where one would
naturally have supposed no such paclfic
Transformation could take place. The
remission of the Boxer indemnity by
the United States was also a remark
able exhibition of the new spirit that
3 LIE DtGuI tp utNtlp bhf idhiiil
cf nations. All signs now point to the
dawn Of the day when Nwar shall be
no more. - and 'good will toward
men - shall reign on earth.
In passing, it is worthy of note that
Of all the great characters born on the
field OF battle. the one which first
brought down the Christ to the scene
Of caTnaee. and helped to quench the
; thirst of the diving (while it was
, C,oiIouS 10 etaN tho su-or6l ae2p6
away from earth in August. 1910, at
. The advanced age of 90-Florence
Nightingale. A brief and appreciative
account Of her life appears in this
volume.
Two other articles command the read
or S attention because of their bearing
upon present day thought-the. Lay.
!" "Negro Education and Evangeliza-
. ton The former is written by the
general secretary Of the movement,
John Campbell White. the latter by
I William T.. B. Dubois, Professor Of
, Economics and History, Atlanta Uni
versity, Georgia, covering eight pages,
and irving many helpful statistics in
I. we'll arranged tables.
The article Mormons.' covering up
wards OF twelve pages. is 4 composite.
The first portion of ii is by Joseph Y.
Smith, Jr., assistant historian of the
, church, and so is markedly official. Fol.
lowing this We have the critical (non-
Mormonl statement by Professor j. II
V pelt Of Cornell College, Iowa. Then
Henry King Carroll, LID. gives. the
, statement of the Reorganized church
And this is followed by what is called
"Anti. Mormon Movements by DR.
. Duncan j Mcmillan Of New York. So
that the publishers. in their determine.
tion to be fair, have given all sides a
hearing.
Among the very numerous biogra phi
cal sketches throughout the volume. the
following deserves especial mention
NOAH with a summary of the Baby
lonian and other non Biblical ac
counts Of the deluge. including a trans
lation Of the recently discovered and
mucl, discussed Babylonia tablet which
DR.. Helprccht. Of the University oi
Pennsylvania. claims veriies the Bible
account Of the delugc}; Moses with
n summary OF the account Of The
Plaques and the E1odusl; "Paul the
APOSTLE II pages; "St. Peter the
APOSTLE lJ pages. and ''Origen.'
More recent biographies embrace
''Rohert Morrison. - founder OF Protest
ant missions in China; John Murray,