New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
hers ~ Jews: Reviews: Cor
Books of the Spirit
Theological, Ethical and Practi>
cal

DR.. Walter Rauschenbusch was the
lecturer. last year. on the Nathaniel
W. Taylor Foundation at Yale Univer-
sity, and the material Of his studies
has appeared in bookform, "a Theology
for the Social Gospel" (Macmillan).
Although the sympathies of the author
are with the simple intuition. OF Jesus
of Nazareth, he is not entirely blind
to the fact that in certain great mo-
ments of the history of the Christian
society the facts OF faith have been
powerfully brought to bear. upon social
needs. In our day, ne remind. US, tht
Social Gospel has becmoe orthodox, and
even the doctrine of the future life
is invested with significance of social
justice. Humanity always crowds the
audience room when God holds court"
II DR.. Rauschenbusch, himself one Of
the most persuasive advocates of So
cialized Christianity, indulges pen
chant for attacking evacuated fort
resses, he does it neatly, as when he
says, "The proof-text method. in try
ing to prove our original sin, has
proved it's own"
Four sermons preached during Ad-
vent, at the Cathedral of ST. John the
Divine, by the Rev. Dr. George W.
Douglas have been published by
Messrs, Longmans under the title
"Christ's Challenge to Mans Spirit in
This World Crisis" Beside finding in
kultur a useful object lesson, Canon
Douglas inforces practical conclusions
from the moral testings presented by
the World Battle. Perhaps nothing
better shows the direction of these
earnest addresses than the words the
preacher quotes from a Bernard Part
ridge cartoon, in which the Kaiser ex-
claims. We'll! You see, you've lost
everything!" and the King of the Bel
gians answers, "Not my soul,"
Out of mature teaching expert
ence Professor Goodnow Everett, of
brown University, has written a text
book. Moral Values: A Study of the
Principlcs Of Conduct" Henry Holt &
Co... in which he surveys the varie-
ties Of ethical theory in their relation
to Happiness and Perfection as ideal
of an attempt to correlate these two
outstanding values, for "as an ideal
man will tolerate neither an unholy
happiness nor an unhappy holiness" "
But the discovery of life's chief ends
should not, our author believes, leave
US In rapt contem plation of an ethereal
generality such az Kant's statement of
tne moral law. From the discerning
of the ultimate values We should be
able to pass to the plain business of
living, furnished with definite princi-
Piles Of guidance in a world of con-
crete moral problems where there is
SO rich an interdependence of eco
nomic and bodily, esthetic and intel
lectual and religious interests.
In his arthur Stanton: A Memoir
the Hon. G. w. E. Russell is able tc
do justice to the spacious qualities OF
the simp ple-hearted and fervent Wis
Median who spent his life in the ser
vice of the poor at ST. Adams Church
Holborn. Father Stanton's preaching
had the unusual merit of charming in
tellectuals and ignorant alike. and his
timely humor only deepened the devo-
tion Of his parishloners. One busy
morning there was a knock at his
study door and the maid said: please
sir, man wants to see you" Tel
him." said Stanton. "I'm very busy anc
can't see him" Then she calls
please, sir. he says he wants to see
you spiritooal." Whereupon the priest
goes downstairs and finds in the hal
a man much out at elbows. In a
hoarse whisper the caller says: 81 say
guv'nor, have yer got an old pair OF
trousers ?" And Stanton. also in &
hoarse. confidential whisper like the
visitors, replies. "Yes, I have. and I've
got 'em on" D. B. G.