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Iidj. @5ie finll gemin gere~tte ~otia eines ftberarbeitet~" (15.431). 8u RalJ.10, 1-16 ~eint e~: ,,@5djmedidj ~at fidj ~etemia fo au~fU~didj unll in hiefer t~eologifclj.alJologettfdjen m:rt mit bem i:~ema ,~a~me uub bie ®oten' befant. '" 150 fiub benn bie meiften (it. flaret (audj OteUi) batin einig, llan 10, 1-16 einem f lJ ate ten metfaffet au. ge~iitt" (15. 122. 123). mola ift eben ein medreter bet fogenannten ~nterlJola. tionS~t)lJot~efe, hie bie Rtitil getabe bei ~mmia aufgefteUt ~at, bon bet fdjon iYtana ileUtfdj feinetaeit gegen hie tationaUftifdjen m:u~Ieger ~itig unll ·lJJlobet~ f djrieb: ,;!ruit bermetfen bie ~ntetlJo Iations~t)lJot~efe, bie bon ben gemeinften m:n. fidjten Ubet bas istaeIitifdje l\.lrolJ~etentum ausge~t, meinenb, ban ein l\.ltOlJ~et, mie bet bon ~ef. 40-66, ~intetbtein !ruei~fagungen in ben jmmianifdjen i:e~t aelJfufdjt ~abe." (8itiert bei !RulJlJtedjt, (iinleitung in lla~ m:rtei:eftament, 15.241.) Unll (ibuatb Ronig ~at neuetbings, etroas fatfaftifdj, abet gana tteffenb, bon hiefet !rueife gefagt: "ilie neueften (i~egeten fdjieben bielfadj i:~tbeftanbteile, hie nadj i~nen ben 8ufammen~ang ftiiten, einem flJateten ~ntetlJolator au, als menn etmas ge~oIfen mate, menn ein betmeinUidjet Unfinn einem anllern augefdjoben mirb." (i:~eot ~itetatutblatt, 44, 136.) ilie gtonte unb ~mUdjfte !rueisfagung in ~mmia ift befannHidj RalJ. 23, 5.6, unb mola Ubetfdjteibt fie audj gana tidjtig nilet lJJleffias" unb berteibigt audj hie meffianifdje (itfliitung (15.232-234); abet llabei ge~t bodj iRidjttges unb Untidj. tige~ llutdjeinanbet, unb bie unf ets (itadjtens biel au Jurae (itfratUng mitb mebet bem ~amen nt:)y, ®emiidjs, @5lJron, engUfdj: Branch, getedjt nodj bem ~o~en, bebeutungSbOUe~'" ~amen ~Ji"y nin" mo bet lJJleffiall bite!t unb im @5ubjelt ~e~oba~ genannt mitb, mie" f~on 1l~t~ets ttefflidje unb flJradjlidj unanfedjtbate ftbetfetung: "ilet ~(itt, bet .unfere ®eredjtigJeit ift" battut. ilatum betfte~t moh audj bie metfmUtbige l\.lataUele au biefet @5teUe, RalJ. 33, 14-16, bie et Ubtigens miebet gat nidjt bem ~etemiall, fonbetn einem anbetn metfaffet au. fdjteibt, nidjt tidjtig in i~tet medmUthigen metiinbetung: nUnb man mitb fi e· (M}' nidjt i,) "nennen: ilet ~(itt, llet unfere ®mdjtigfeit iJt", IDie ell audj in Book Review. - ~itetatut. 317 bet englifd)en !Bibei tid)tig ~eitt: "the name wherewith she shall be called". iBola bemetlt: "Unfet iBetfaffet ettuattet abet nid)t fo fe~t bie Ubettagenbe ®e~ ftaU eineg !mefjiag, tuie bet Slltud} 23, 5 f. bet~iet; i~m genUgt bie troieberauf~ tid)tung beg Staateg, bie !!BiebetbatfteUung beg Rilnigtumg. So fd)tuiid)t et bie ftU~ere iBet~eitung ab unb bettuanbeU i~te lletfiinItd)en ,sUge in fad)ltd)e ( •.. iibetttagung beg IRameng Ui"Y iliil' bom !mefjiag aUf :;JetufaIem)U (5. 314). ~bet getabe biefe iBernnbetung 'b~~ ";tu: in "jie" (:;Jetufa1em, bag ift, bie neu~ teftament1td)e ®emeinbe) ift ~od)bebeutfam. :l)et IRame beg Rilnigg tuitl> nun aud) auf bie !Btaut, bie ®emeinbe, Ubedtagen, getabe tuie 1 Rot. 12, 12 bie ®emeinbe bitelt "~~tiftUgu ~eitt. Unb bet ®tunb unb bie !Bered)tigung baau ift bie innige ®emeinfd)aft, bie 3tuifd)en ~~tifto unb bet Ritd)e befte~t, bie unio mystica. ~. {Y. Watermarks in the Gospels. By William Sohoeler. The Lutheran Book Concern, Columbus, O. 123 pages, 7%X5. Price, 50 cts. Order from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Some forty texts from the gospels, treated for the purpose of pointing out the indirect or "unintentional" evidence which the gospels bear to their authenticity and historic exactness. The apologetics is especially directed against the myth hypothesis and naturalistic critics. TH. GRAEBNER. 'l)ie nnbebingte .8ntlerlftffigfeit tier $ibel anf gefdJidjtlidjent nnb natur· itJifj"enfdjaftlidjent ~ebiet. iBotitag aUf bet S'jetbftbetfammiung beg !Bibeibunbeg in S'jannObet am 9. (mobet 1927 bon P .. S'j e in tid) ~ 0 t n e 1 i u g. iBetiiffent1id)ungen beg !Bibdbunbeg IRt. 31. Sonbet~ brud aug "IRad) bem ®efet\ unb ,seugnigu. SeIbftbedag beg !Bibd~ bunbeg, ~Utjenbutg, Oft~olftein. 64 SeHen 6X9. !llteig: M.1.50. :l)iefet iBotttag ift dne iBetiiffenHid)ung beg !Bibe1bunbes, beffen ®liebet feft aUf bet :;Jnfllitation unb :;JtrtumsIojigfeit bet S'jei1igen Sd)tift fte~en, unb ift bon bem betbienten S'jetausgebet i~teg Organs "IRad) ljem ®efe~ unb ,seugnig", P. S'j. ~otne1ius, aUf einet iBetfammlung bes !Bibeibunbeg ge~aUen tuotben. !man fann jid) Ubet biefe Sd)tift nut bon S'jet3en fteuen. !mit gutet !Be1efen~eit unb tteffenben ~tgumenten betueift bet iBetfaffet, tuas et im SWel fagt, unb bemetft gana tid)tig, "bat eg bet !!Bn~t~aftigfeit nid)t entflltid)t, tuenn jemanb etUart, bie !Bibei f e i i~m ®ottes troOtt, abet in gefd)id)t1td)en unb natuttuiffen~ fd)aft1id)en :l)ingen fei jie nid)t irrtumsiog unb matgebenb, benn i~te !!BeU~ anfd)auung unb i~re ®efd)id)tsauffaffung fei eine anbere a15 bie unfetet ,seU" (5. 18). :l)et iBetfaffet beflltid)t dne ganae !Rei~e bib1ifd}et Steffen, bie bagegen angefU~tt tuetben, unb gibt beten tid)tige ~tUatung, unb atuat o~ne ~infd)tan~ fungen unb ,sugeftanbniffe. ~t fagt: "!!Bit bletben feft babet fte~en, bat bie Sd)iillfungstage tuitUtd)e ~tbentage getuefen jinb" (5. 43). :l)ag :;Ja~t 722 bOt ~~tifto ais :;Ja~t bet ~bfU~tung ":;Jgtneig in bie aff~tifd)e ®efangenfd)aft 1ft nid)t blot bib1ifd), fonbetn aud) infd)tift1id) begiaubigt, aifo abfolut jid)et" (5. 23). So filnnten tuir nod) bide gute unb tid)tige !!Botte anfU~ten. IRUt ~atte et nid)t fagen foUen an dnet SteUe: ,,:l)ie iBetbalinfllitation ift nut eine menfd)ijd)e sr~eotie· (5. 12). ~t fe1bft meint es nid)t fo, unb bie iBetba1infllitation ift aud) nid)t dne blote sr~eotie, fonbern abfolute !!Ba~t~eit, tuie jie aus ben ~~fagen bet Sd)tift Ubet jid) fdbft feftfte~t. :l)ie Heine, abet fonft Uate, fefte Sd)tift bet~ bient eine gute ~mllfe~lung. ~. {Y. 818 Book Review. - 2iteratUt. What Lutherans Believe. By W. E. Schramm. The Lutheran Book Concern, Columbus, O. 156 pages, 5%X7%,. Price, 75 cts. Order from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo . .An excellent handbook for the instruction of adults preparing for church-membership. The author has evidently had experience in teaching adult confirmation classes. Both the form of presentation and the illustra- tions used are well adapted to the purpose. In a text-book of such general excellency one almost hesitates to point out flaws; but while the discussion of the Third Commandment certainly does not support Sabbatarianism, the sentence ".A seventh day for rest and worship is a part of God's plan for all time" (p. 30) is objectionable; the complete identification of the Ninth and the Tenth Commandment (p.56) does not do justice to their text; and the illustration introduced (p.l04) to make clear the doctrine of the vicarious atonement does not illustrate. .As for the latter point, we believe that in explaining the vicarious atonement, no attempts should be made to supply any human analogies since none exist. TH. GRAEBNER. A Xing's Penknife; or, Why I am Opposed to Modernism. By I. M. Haldeman, D. D. Francis Emory Fitch, Inc., New York. 165 pages. Price, $1.25. This is a summons to the churches to cast out the Modernists from their midst. For "Modernism is not Christianity; it is no more Chris- tianity than is Buddhism or Islamism, and not so honest; for neither of these profess to be aught other than what they are, while Modernism claims to be Christianity and denies all upon which Christianity is founded." Both charges, that Modernism denies the chief articles of the Christian faith, the inspiration of the Bible, the deity of Christ, the vicarious atone- ment, the resurrection, etc., and that it dishonestly lays claim to the Chris- tian name, making dishonest use of Christian phrases, are fully sub- stantiated. (The position of the author is not always tenable. Phil. 2, 6 f. and Heb. 2, 14 do not prove the Virgin Birth nor 2 John 7 the second visible coming of Christ. Jer. 36, 30 did not inhibit Joseph, a descendant of Jehoia- kim, from sitting on the throne. The statement; "If not virgin-born, Jesus Christ needed a Savior as much as any other man" is correct in the light of the following statement; "If Jesus Christ by His descent from a human father had the personality and quality of that father, . • . He would have to receive a new nature." The Modernists must not be taken to task for rejecting millennialism.) But in the main the author is right. Modernism is heathenism masquerading in a Christian dress, and Dr. Halde- man is right in castigating the churches for tolerating the Modernists. "The word toleration must be cut out of the Church vocabulary. You can- not find it in the Bible. It is not a nice word. It has in it always, no matter how much dissimulated, the crawling, creeping movement of sur- render." "Modernism deserves no toleration. Jehoiakim was buried with the burial of an ass. Modernism deserves no better future than that." .A Church that tolerates Modernism cannot remain Christian. Then, what is the remedy~ "By every law of self-respect Modernists should go out of their own accord." They will not do that. Dr. Haldeman concludes with the statement; "Why should the Church tolerate men who no longer tolerate the Bible as God gave it to us and, by so much, neither tolerate Book Review. - ~itetatut. 319 the Church nor the Christianity nor the Christ of the Bible 1" Another statement should have been added. This: If our Church persists in tolerating them, we must go out from it. And we think he is ready to~~ R Aggrey of Africa. A Study in Black and White. By Edwin W. Smith. 292 pages, 8%X5%. Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., New York. Price, $3.00. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey (1875-1927), a native of the Gold Coast of Africa, became successively pupil and teacher in the mission- schools among his people; interpreter on Scott's expedition to Ashanti; student and professor at Livingstone College, Salibury, N. C.; elder in the Methodist Church; student at, and graduate of, Columbia University; member of the Phelps-Stokes Education Commissions to Africa; and vice- principal of the Prince of Wales's College at Achimato. The story of his lifelong connection with, and labors in, the movement for more intelligent cooperation between the white and black races and their respective cul- tures is interestingly told. The reader is not left in doubt regarding the outstanding abilities of Aggrey and his far-reaching interest in the uplift of his people both in America and Africa. Nor does there seem to be any doubt that Aggrey was more interested in the civilization of his race than in its true Christianization. W. G. POLACK. Sons of Thunder. Pulpit Power of the Past. By Olarence E. Macartney, D. D. 254 pages. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. Price, $2.00. This book, written in a vivid style, presents interesting and profitable biographical sketches of some preachers of the past: John Bunyan, Thomas Guthrie, Thomas Chalmers, Edward Irving, Peter Cartwright, James Waddel, Gilbert Tennent, Samuel Davies, Eliphalet Nott, Lyman Beecher. We offer a quotation from the sketch of Peter Cartwright, which not only shows what kind of material the book contains and in what style it is written, but also describes to us the sad religious situation in our country a hundred years ago, a situation much as it is to-day, and the means used to improve it: "At the opening of the nineteenth century religious life was at a low ebb in the new nation. The struggle with the forces of nature was turning men's thoughts away from the supernatural. The labor for the bread which peri sheth was making men forget the Bread of Life. French rationalism and infidelity were rampant in the land. When Timothy Dwight assumed the presidency of Yale, in 1796, he found that the members of the senior class had taken for themselves, and were called by, the names of the most noted of the French and English infidels. The legislature of one of the States, Kentucky, had abolished prayer to Al- mighty God. The reports of assemblies and church convocations reveal a deep anxiety for the spiritual condition of the nation and the Church. Ministers confessed that their hearts were as dryas Gilboa and the re- sources of their minds exhausted. Then, in the solitudes of Kentucky, in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, and in the mountains of Virginia and Carolina, there suddenly burst forth the flames of the Great Revival. The preaching of the Word was with power and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Ordained ministers could not satisfy the hunger for the Word, and illiterate frontiersmen and little children, lifted upon men's shoulders, preached to wondering thousands. In every town and settlement, sinners 820 Book Review. - ~itetQtut. were convicted and called upon God for mercy. Thousands fell to the ground in the camp-meetings or in the fields and highways as if they had been felled by BOme awful, unseen hand. The churches were not sufficient for the multitudes, and the throngs resorted to the wilderness, where the leaves of the forest shook with their fervent psalmody, as sons of thunder called upon men to repent and make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Ere long the flames began to subside. But a mighty work had been done, never to be undone. The nation was saved from barbarism and irreligion and the Church from apostasy and unbelief. Instead of a godless, materialistic civilization being built up in the West and the Southwest, there was founded a civilization which, with all its crudities and shortcomings, was rich in the fear of God, the only solid foundation of those nations which endure. Those great movements of grace gave the churches the study of the Bible, the prayer-meeting and the evangelistic meeting. There, too, was born the missionary movement, the agitation against slavery, and the temperance reform. 'It wrought, in fact, a social revolution, whose extent is hidden from us by the fact that we have always lived among its results and do not realize with what a price they were bought for us.''' J. H. C. FRITZ. The Good Shepherd. A Book of Devotion for the Christian Home, Based on the Stories of the Bible. By the Rev. Wm. Lochner, pastor of Nazareth Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wis. 1929. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 308 pages, 7 X 9%. Price, $3.00. Here is a book which we can reco=end without hesitation. The doctrine set forth is fully in accord with the Scriptures. The author has achieved his aim to write a serviceable book of devotion for the family circle, inclUding smaller children. Not only is the language very simple, but the story-element is properly put into the foreground. The wish has often been expressed that Stoeckhardt's masterly BibUsche Geschichte des Alten 'Und des Ne'Uen Testaments might be rendered into English. In this work the wish is largely fulfilled; for Pastor Lochner took as much of Dr. Stoeckhardt's explanations and practical applications over as the plan of the work and the available space would allow. The material naturally is given in a more condensed form than the one in which we find it in Dr. Stockhardt's books, but the fundamentals are given the prominence they deserve. After every exposition a short prayer and a suitable stanza from our many beautiful Christian hymns are added. Dir. Barth has written a fitting preface. W. ARNDT. Please Take Notice. Kindly consult the address label on this paper to ascertain whether your subscription has expired or will soon expire. "April 30" on the label means that your SUbscription has ex- pired. 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