The New York herald., 1922-05-07

ana tdtcF addittonS lEe whole speech
OF Eiihu (as he reeonstructs IT'D and
also the cheaply conventional. happy
ending" OF the ordinary version. He
makes a radical rearrangement Of
Chapters 1881 and thereby es-
eapes many OF the strained readings
and grammatical distortions OF the
text that have hitherto been cur
rent.
He sees in Job the last and high
est expression Of early Jewish mono
thelsm. in protest against the intru-
sion Of the Persian duaIism which
prevailed both in later Hebraism and
tn Christianity and IS still largely n
controlling element in the modern
orthodox churches. He shows that
the Satan OF the prologue is not at
al the personal devil'' of later days
The word is not yet even a proper
name. but an appellative. 'denotlng
the province of this agent of God"
1t is God Himself who afflicts Job.
The prelude is mere dramatic ex-
pedient employed TO bring out the
purpose and central idea of the
drama" And that drama is mans
questioning of the inscrutAble ways
of God with him. critical question
Ing. involving reliance upon his own
intellect. and yet emerging in a.
strengthened faith and belief in the
existence of purpose in the uni
verse. Prof. Buttenwieser summa-
rizes il:
Job by his great calamity hav-
ing found all his previous expe-
rience reversed. all his inherited
notions belied. has come to search
in the depths of his own being for
some clew that might lead to the
stabilization of his moral world.
He has found this clew in his own
moral consciousness and
he now emerges clear and assured.
From this new and solid
Rase he now proceeds to find the
solution of his problem. the prob
lem of Gods ways with man. He
considers this from two aspects:
Cd Is there any retributive JUS
tiee in this world? CD What is
the governing principle OF the di-
vine world economy?
He believes in retribution of q
spiritual not of a material nature.
His clear conscience is
his priceless good. i'm that II gives
him strength to endure his afflic-
= ton. and 50 fills his heart with
comfort and joy that he can at all
times feel assured in the presence
OF God
AS 10 the second side OF the
question. Job answers
that Gods ways are beyond hu-
man comprehension-th divine
world economy must remain for
ever a mystery.
10, these wonders are but the
outer edges OF His ways.
Only a whisper of Him do we
catch.
Who can perceive the thunder Of
His omnipotence?
Job implies that il man could
comprehend then those
q things which by reason of his
finite view must now seem unjust
would appear infinitely just and
wise.
Even from so serappy and made
auate a selection it is plain that
there is a striking similarity here TO
the evolutionary religion OF a Bur-
roughs: and also TO Gilbert Murray's
-religio grammatici." and to the
summary given above FROM DIR.
Lakes book. II ranks Job as a very
modern man.
V.
Sir Henry Jones holds. in the Gif-
ford lectures to the University of
Glasgow. reprinted as "a Faith that
Enquiries" that those who can
neither accept the ordinary teach
ings OF the church nor subject them
selves to its dogmatic ways" may
none the less reach God BY "the way
OF pure reason" II IS an attempt
70 adjust Christianity as the religion
of love. with a concept of moral evo-
luton. of God as "the perfect in pro-
cess" Professor browns book is
a restatement of the Eincarnation OF
Christ in terms OF modern thought"