The Princeton S eminary
Bu etin
Vol. """ V A T U GU S , 1941 N umber 1 Board of Trustees
O F F I CE R S
R O BE R T S R D E . PEE , D . D LL. President
LE W I S M D L -P S . UD GE , D . . , L.D Vice resid ent M I IA . U G D . D D W LL B P H , . , LL. ., S ecretary C NTRA ANOV R AN AND TR C O ANY E L H E B K U S T MP , N ew Y r T o k, N .Y . , reasurer
ME MBE R S
L e M mb if e er .
T OMA NNOTT " S E A S . SY . NON E N . H W , " W H , J .
Term to E x e Ma 19 2 : pir y, 4 O N . AIRD . D .D . J H B L , L W I E S S MUD G D . D D ILADEL I P . E , . LL. PH PH A, A. PE TE R M M ON CRA T P S D . D . . . S N ON K . E , , A. M L O O ON D RI ET I IA A C N S D N ON . W LL H L K J H , . P C , N J . N F N AM I . F AR R D BE J BE , D . . LAK F I LL . O V TT PH. D E RE T I R RA O S . W L E B CKE , , RO RT S R D ILLE CONN BE E . PEE , D .D LL. LAKE V , . O N T M N ON AVE . A S E S N E W N CONN . J H , ". H ,
NN T AN N IN G E s TRENTON N . KE E H H . L , q , J. JUD GE AD RIAN LYON
RAY VAN C E . . E , S "
Te m x r E pires May, 1943 : A C AL RT MCCARTN Y . D S INGTON D BE J . E , D W H ,
D . O N . GR O S S D . . J H H ,
R N N PRI CET N J . F A S A T N I S N ON . K E R GE LE , P RAYMOND C A R D . D ARRISBU RG A. . W LKE , H ,
O N LY D C E TER N .Y . AR D I C D . RO S H L E . E , H , U G I ANS D D DAY TON O IO V . H H . E , , H M O N T F INN Y M . D ALTIM ORE D. J H M . . E , B ,
O I LADE LPHI A PA. D ARD D G M .D E W B . H E , PH ,
I LI A M AT R L IS .D ASTON PA. W L M HE EW , LL E ,
O N S C ID E S TITU SVILLE PA. J H H . HE E , " ,
O N N RRY N E W YORK N .Y . J H J . EWBE , E S " ,
Term to E x e Ma 19 : pir y, 44
W C . INOT C MO R GAN D . D GREEN I CONN M . , H ,
PA. STUART NY UT C ISON D . D ITTSBU RG E H H , P H ,
L I ADE P IA PA. I IA U G . D . . D L L W L M B . P H , D LL PH H , , A ROS D UN D D NAPOLEON O IO J . MB E KEL , . , H D T H ON D . WAL E R L. W ALL , PA RA C OO R UT C ISO N . D . D .D . AS INGTON . LPH PE H H , PH , W H ,
N . J . I IA ST NSON . D RO SELLE W LL M P . EVE , LL ,
N MADIS N . J . S C R S ARS E S . ON PE E . M H " ,
GU I O RD C A CO C MORRISTOWN N . J . CO L. LF . B B K , IR C T R WE . KE LE ,
I ISON SMIT E S . . J . W LL H , "
‘ 1 Died March 19 , 194 The Princeton S em inary Bulletin
Published uar erl b the Trus ee of the The l ical eminar th r s i h r h " t y y t s oog S y of e P e byter an C u c .
E ntered as econd clas ma er Ma 1 19 0 at the os o ice at Prince on N s s tt , y , 7. p t fi t , . J r Ac Con r ul 16 1 9 und e the t o e o J 8 . f g ss f y , 4
L. " " " P I N N A T VO V R CE TO N . J G 1941 , U U S , N O . I
THE STU DENT CENTER
HE for S e C r r campaign the tud nt ente building , which was inaugu ated last
r - B Novembe in Wilkes arre , Pennsylvania, is drawing to a close . It has “ ” been relatively successful . Theword successful is used in speaking of this effort because , taking into account actual contributions and pledges , and money contributed to the S eminary in the course of the last year which is available for this project, a total sum Of more than two hundred and thirty l r thousand do la s has been raised . This is no insignificant amount . On the other hand , the success that has attended the campaign must be qualified by ” th r “ e te m relative , in as much as certain special gifts which we had hoped to receive have not materialized up to the present on account Of disturbed h conditions in high business circles . T e new taxation and fears regarding the future led to a postponement of some contributions upon which we had r da ed to count . O ur faith is strong, however, that they will eventually be made . But whether these exceptional gifts are contributed or not, the im portant thing is that the movement for the S tudent Center is gaining momen l tum , that it has met with an unusual response from Princeton S eminary A n um i and many others , and that the need and possibilities of the new building have captured the imagination of a host of friends , new and O ld .
By the time these words are read the Official campaign will have ended , n but the unofficial effort will have taken its place , to co tinue until the goal is reached . Because we need a worthy center of community life on this cam pus, we believe that in the not distant future we shall have one , through the blessing Of God and the cooperation of friends whose hearts He touches . nate concern to make sure that all that has been best in the traditions and spirit of our historic clubs shall be per petuated in the common campus home . To adapt reverently an Apocalyptic “ passage from the S criptures : All the glory and honour Of — Benham and r r W fiel r r and — r F ia , Calvin and ar d, Cante bu y Adelphian shall be b ought into it . Nothing from the past that ought to be conserved shall be lost . Many n r thi gs , moreover, which it has been found impossible to accomplish hithe to in the interests of our students and Alumni and the Church at large , because O f r rr f the lack o proper facilities , will , we t ust , be achieved tomo ow when the
new S tudent Center has reared its graceful form upon the campus . THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
This year two Of the outstanding universities in the country celebrate their r r r r fiftieth annive sa y, S tanfo d and the U nive sity O f Chicago . The years since their foundation have been marked by greater cultural progress in the U nited
S - tates than any half century in our history . But, while colleges and universi t r in r r ies have inc eased their equipment an inc edible way du ing that period, and millions of dollars have been contributed by generous Presbyterians for the development of institutions Of secular learning, the chief center for the preparation of the Presbyterian ministry has not had a new building for its own r i f pu poses Since Hodge Hall was erected in 1893. It s, o course , true that r i n the g eatness and usefulness of an educational institu to , very especially a r w eligious institution , can in no ise be measured by anything purely material .
At the same time , as the spirit of man needs a body, and an effective church w r r r n f o king unde mode n co ditions needs an adequate plant or its activities, an institution where Chrisitian ministers are trained to meet the complex
' needs of the modern world must be in every sense a worthy expression of the vision and devotion of the Church to which it belongs .
This is notime or place for recriminations . It must be recognized, however, that for a good many years official relations between the Presbyterian Church and her seminaries have not been as close or mutually helpful as they ought. Theenthusiasm and generosity of Presbyterians have been diverted to a large extent toward the support of theological institutions of a non- denominational
or r r . character, representing trends towards the extreme left the ext eme ight ’ The time has come for a great movement from the center of the Church s of faith and life . This is the hour for the Center to advance . One phase this advance must be a more intelligent and practical interest on the part of the w far Pr Church in the progress of her o n seminaries . S o as inceton S emi r r nary is concerned , the first outwa d symbol of advance must be the c eation l of a community home upon this O d campus . ur To all whohave contributed towards this project, o Alma Mater extends her thanks . Those who will contribute in the future she thanks in antici r h r r r ff r O patiou of thei gifts . While S e t avails in bi th with othe o sp ing f a n spiritual and intellectual kind , S he craves that her sons of yesterday Shall ot deny her a new Home for her sons of today and tomorrow . J . A . M . THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
DEMO CRACY AN D THE CHRISTIAN MINI STRY "
THE R E V. OHN CUN N IN HAM D D J R . G , . . Presid ent of D avidson College
The r HE discussion Of Democracy this that thought . intimate elation between the inner morale and the year is timely . One may risk outer defense of a people is more vital being trite , but he will be dealing he r with that subject which is more to than t ave age citizen knows . What the fore in popular thinking than any ever may be said about the necessity O f military defense at this or any other. Thedanger is that we have not thought deeply nor seriously enough other time— and wiser persons than I must decide that matter— our Democ about Democracy . O ur anxiety about racy will always depend chiefly on our way of life is all absorbing . We fo its are threatened from without and other than military strength r
n most certain defense . Lincoln once within . O ur dilemma as i dividuals r r r and as a nation is to discover what said If eve Ame ica pe ishes it will not be because it is overpowered from constitutes real and enduring defense . r r without , but because it decayed f om Of cou se , we will recognize to begin ” with that Democracy is more than a within . r r is r fo m of gove nment . It mo e than There are three areas in which the r a political system . If it we e nothing Christian Ministry can and must
r no r . t . mo e, we need be so distu bed function if Democracy is to stand in r r r r r As a matte of fact, Democ acy tho this time of wo ld c isis . r our of oughly unde stood , is way life , 1 TheM r M Pr O . inist y ust oclaim the based upon the deepest f convictions Fundamental N ecessity of the Chris o r “ and built up n the most abiding spi r tian Gospel . There is none othe it ual principles . Fundamental spirit name under heaven given among men r o are ” ual conside ati ns involved when r t whereby we must be saved . Ch is one attempts to define and to defend ianity is the sine qua non O f a firm r Democ acy . ri Democracy . Ch stianity may not I propose to emphasize the convic wholly depend upon Democracy, but tion that the Christian Ministry is in surely Democracy depends on Christ r n r the f o t line Of defense . It is ou r r ianity. The e has been a gove nment business to see that we are not side of the people under many and varying tracked from the building of a Dem t r e of conditions . Bu gove nm nt the r i oc acy which s worth defending . O ur for people , by the people , and the peo r r w B e chief dange is f om ithin . emo ple has issued only where the Christ racies are always in far more danger T ian Gospel has done its work . homas of committing suicide than of being Mann has well said “ Democracy is a overwhelmed and conquered from polite name for the ideals Christian ” without . In fact , the question may ity brought into the world . In the well be raised whether a Democracy can ever be defeated until it has de Address delivered in the chapel of r r at 129th Cm ca ed r P inceton Unive sity the o y f om within . The history of mencement of Princeton Theological Sem in r r r Is ael th ows conside able light on ar Ma 13 1941. y, y , THE - PRINCE TON S EMINAR Y B ULLE TIN
P . . r r r same vein Judge John J a ke of as such, quite apart f om his race , r ‘ NO th Carolina has more recently class , or nationality . O ur danger is “ r stated Democ acy is the application regimentation . Christ was ever and of Christianity to the domain of gov always stressing the value of the indi ” r i H w r e nment . "uoting further, President v dual . o pe sistently he had to “ McCracken of Vassar has said DemJ remind his followers of the inherent ocracy simply cannot exist without dignity of human personality. Let us
Christianity . It needs it as the S ky note j ust two of the many illustra Za f scrapers need the bed rock O f Man tions . ccheus, a citizen O Jericho , w He hattan for their foundation . It is the as by no means popular. was an ‘ religion of Jesus that tells us that we unpopular man in an unpopular posi He r are of more value than the sparrows ; tion . had cu iosity to see Jesus as ‘ r that the very hairs of our head are he passed th ough . A great crowd ’ H r r r. e numbe ed . We areof importance be th onged the Maste could have a of ” r a r cause we re consequence to God . p e ched to them as a t emendous r w O ne cannot predict the solution of all cong egation . Instead , he sa in this the problems which now face us and little outcast sort of citizen an oppor uni or which will face us when this present t ty f lasting good . Leaving the r r his er c isis has passed , but he is safe in the c owd, giving attention to a p r r r assumption that the ultimate solution son athe than to the c owd , he called of all our critical problems will be Zaccheus down from the sycamore reached by men who think and speak tree and suggested that he take him as r to r r and live se vants of Christ . This his home, whe e , du ing the day, is only another way of saying that they readj usted many ill advised re r i ’ lations Ch istianity s essential to the world s and left the home , a happy
r r . r secu ity . It is peculiarly the task of Ch istian unit Anothe incident of o the Minister to state that truth so individual attention . It was n on The repeatedly and S O forcefully as to Sink time . disciples had gone into the r it deeply and indelibly into the con village to get food . A poo woman , sciousness our r H r oo , Of gene ation . itler, whose eputation was not g d whose r r who knows the ground work of Dem cha acte had been Spoiled , whose
- r self confidence was at low ebb , came acracy bette than many of us , acts out for er logically when he silences the Christ to the well wat . With what r ian Ministry in his desire to establish tact and skill , with what penet ating r r re National S ocialism . Let the Minister unde standing and calm spi itual her of the Gospel stand forth in the clear assurance did Jesus deal with . light of his great opportunity know S he went back to save her whole vil ing assuredly and uttering it force lage and lead them into a better life . fully that he deals with the first es The Christian religion will not allow senti l f r . a o Democracy . The Gospel of us to ove look the individual r Ch ist is that essential . Napoleon is said to have asked one 2 Th . e Christian Minister Must Of his aides about the strength of the to r r of Continue Asse t the Wo th the army . The aide started specifying r o Individual . Ch ist says of individuals the various corps . Bluntly Napole n ” “ “ r Ye are of value . In a Democracy replied Never mind the intege s ” we believe that men areborn free and tell me the totals . That is never the E r r r Th r of equal . ve y human being has value. Ch istian app oach . e theo y THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
l ’ E verything for the state , nothing wild throw ; peop e with inarticulate against the state, and nothing outside prayers for the life or soul of some ” the state must be answered by the loved ones ; a home with a big hole in Christian claim of the supreme worth it that nothing human can ever fill ; of humanity in its individual units . nameless sorrows that tears can never Let us continue as Ministers to think ease and people who keep on living
O f individuals , cultivate individuals , though they have nothing to live for; r and serve individuals . One wea ies of memories that are j ust one long ache — so much bigness in our day . Big or those that bite like a venom when schools , big hospitals , big churches , I remember all this I cannot but think r and now big a mies tend to Obscure that some O f our smart, flashy ser the worth and importance of the child mons are as thoughtlessly cruel as r ar r of God as an individual . Only as you they e impe tinent . Get down deep , ” M r r of inist y is an exp ession the dig gentlemen . Get down deep . nity and worth of the individual will 3. And then, The Christian Minis - r en it be Christ like . A ecent book try in Its Defense of Democracy Must “ ” titled Louisiana Hayride attempts E xemplify and Challenge the Courage a true appraisal of Huey Long . One Which Dares to Live for Those Values statement of significance in an under for Men Ar Which e Willing to Die. standing O f his amazing heyday in E very passing day the lines are more “ Louisiana is this : Hehad a sense of r clea ly drawn . We are all in touch ” The human beings . sense which he with youth which moves into organ for r used selfish and disg aceful ends ized positions where ultimate willing the Christian Minister must use to ness to die for the cause is implicit in the glory Of Christ and the good of their call and response . There is the people . something tremendous and dramatic of This recognition has a genuine in about it . It is the function the fluence not only on the pastoral but Christian Ministry to make clear now The t upon the preaching Ministry . as always that the ultima e test of Minister who knows and cares deeply human loyalty is not death but life r P for his people will not fail to incorpo and cha acter. S imon eter made the r He rate into his preaching those Gospel typical mistake in this egard . as values which satisfy the hunger of sumed that love and loyalty to Christ their hearts . Dr. James Black , speak would be tested by his willingness to or for Him r ing to a group of American Ministers die with . Ch ist calmly e r some time ago , made this statement and p net atingly showed him that to which we all do well to turn again his loyalty would not extend far when to tem ta and again , When I think sometimes it came facing life and its p r of the puzzled and burdened hearts tions . If compa ison could be made in our congregations whose hurt is and it seems now late in the day to perhaps concealed under a twisted say this— Democracy stands far more smile ; business men and women who in need of life and character than it - r areworried equally by their problems does of death . Democ acy must al of success and failure ; young men and ways be defended by people who be f r women fighting bravely the rising lieve in it enough to live o it . It has passion in their own blood and been strongest when men and women tempted to risk everything on some had deep personal convictions about 6 THE P RINCE TON S EMINAR Y B ULLE TIN
h was S o for the foundations upon whic it he died his faith . That is r built . Y ou cannot defeat a Democ acy fine M r like that . o e than most of us do . But " It is a poor type of man who will stay Can you add to that line T for too? not defend his home from one who hat he lived it, would violate it— if to do so cost him
It is easy to die . Men have died i efor r . his life . Hew ll di it if necessa y F or or But are we living for our homes in a wish a whim F or bravado or passion or pride ; America ? Arethe men of our country Was it harder for him ? home centered men ? Is the honor of the home and the moral and spiritual But to live ; every day to live out health of the family— foundation All r r m the t uth that he d ea t, stones in a Democ racy— are these the While his friends met his conduct m r ? O r n passions Of A e ican life thi k with doubt P r has of the Country . at iotism been w r And the o ld with contempt . too much confined to times of inter national stress and too closely asso Was it thus that he plodded ahead ciated in our thought with fighting Never turning aside ? The e r r ’ and dying . d epe pat iotism Then we ll talk about the life he led h w o . calls for Christian character. Of Never mind he died f r r course , we will die o Ame ica if the occasion demands but we have notyet These are days when men must for n faced the necessity of sacrificial stand somethi g and when they f must answer or something . With all Christian character to live for her. that is being said about defense we The pulpit of the American Church will do well to recognize that the first has a tremendous task in challenging line of all defense is spiritual . Here is our best people to a recognition under where the foundations must rest . Let r r God of this urgency . Furthe mo e , the Ministry magnify its calling . Too we may illustrate this principle in the great timidity, or too much of back Men for area Of our faith . will die wardness at a time when material and r r thei faith . A eligious fight is the physical values are to the fore in the f r o t . S r e sa wo st bat les t ang to y, men i public thought , s to fail in a crucial with no great degree of religious fer d hour. Let us, as ambassadors for Go , vor will take violent positions when stand forth with courage and under contention arises but to get people to - sac , standing, with boldness and self for r h ’ . r live thei fait Well , the e s the rifice. These are times which await has r rub. S o e ome ne w itt n the prophet of the most high God . THE PRINCE TON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN 7
D M C ACY DU CA I AN D F AI H I N G O D " E O R , E T ON T
DEAN LUTHER EI LE A . W G Yale U niversity D ivinity S chool
r HE N Jesus was asked what mo e than a form of government . It is an ethical principle which is not commandment is first of all , he , replied in terms familiar to his dependent upon any one type of poli
r f tical structure . It may be realized in hearers , quoted f om the books o a monarchy and may fail in a repub Deuteronomy and Leviticus . But, as , r sa r lic . I do not mean , once mo e , to y usual , his answe contained some r to thing new . He gave to the word that eligious faith is Open only “ ” wh are e neighbor a new depth and range of those o ducated . It is the f meaning ; and he added to the com glory both o Judaism and O f Chris tianit r mandment to love God a new phrase : y that they have always incu “ red the reproach O f interest in simple with all thy mind . He explicitly as
sociated intelligence with religious folk, even in the weak and sinful .
faith . Thou shalt love the Lord thy What I am maintaining is that ” r r God with all thy mind . the e is an int insic relation between In Jesus ’ answer is implied that in faith in the God whom Jesus Christ timate relationship between democ revealed and that respect for persons
racy, education , and religion which is which is the central principle O f dem characteristic— or should be charac ocracy and that Obedience to truth teristi — c of the Christian faith . Dem which is essential to education . Only ocracy is respect for persons ; educa as this relation is strong and clear
tion is devotion to truth ; religion is and consistent is faith rational , lib T ert faith in God . hese three belong to y secure, and knowledge safe . T gether. hey are interdependent and Jesus was a teacher. Proclaiming r r E o ganically elated . ach finds its full the kingdom of God in a time of tur realization only in association with bulence and passion and desperate
the other two. human need , he chose the educational I do not mean to say that this vital method , the method of the teacher, r union of democ acy, education , and rather than methods of legislation or r r eligion is exclusively Ch istian . It political action or armed rebellion or has its roots in the Hebrew herita e g violent social revolution . r ’ which is common to Jews and Ch is Jesus teaching was with authority r r r tians ; it is as no mally cha acte istic because it seemed to his hearers tobe ’ of Judaism as of Christianity . Neither r . r t ue It met thei minds . Jesus ap do I say that it has been understood peal was reasonable as well as direct . r r and maintained th oughout Ch istian i - H s tone was not that of a law giver, r f r histo y, o what we call Christendom who commands ; nor that of a despot , r has fallen sho t of it many times , r who threatens o cajoles . Jesus spoke our and own time is in this respect on r as e who disce ns the truth, and r noto ious . I do not mean , again , to " r e r suggest that true rehglon ls tled to Add ess d live ed at the Alumni Din ner r , P inceton Theological Seminary, May political democracy ; for democracy is 12, 1941, 8 THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN set r r r r r r his r it befo e othe s in o de that they, t ust , , f om expe ience , as S on, Of M too see r. , may it and in its light decide God as Fathe any a truth, of sci He rr of the issues which impend . sti ed ence as well as faith , has come to f his hearers to think or themselves , the human mind in the first instance He as i f r . of in v ew o the elevant facts was a flash intuition , something
no propagandist, capturing the minds given , a revelation rather than a dis r or cover of people by appeals to p ej udice y; yet, once this truth has been His r r r . e r passion language was est ained seen , it app a s also to be easonable , and fair; his appeal was to intelli and it may be presented and taught to r r r r gence , conscience , and will , athe othe s in easonable ways . That is or to Hi than to emotion the psychology what Jesus did . s parables were in r of the crowd . this espect extraordinarily effective
“ teaching instruments . Ye shall know the truth , and the r r e not r f w t uth shall make you f e , is a say Jesus did p esent a code o la s , r r r for or for r He ing att ibuted to Jesus by the autho eithe his time ou s . r ornot of the Fourth Gospel . Whethe sought to bring men into right rela r it records his exact wo ds , this saying tion with God , and he enunciated cer certainly expresses the Spirit of his tain principles of conduct consequent
teaching . It was not his way, says upon that relation . Of command ro r n Henry Latham, in his illuminating ments , in the p pe se se Ofthe term , “ study of Jesus entitled Pastor Pas he affi rmed only two : Thou shalt r T torum , to inflame the feelings and love the Lo d thy God and hou
blind the eyes of men by kindling shalt love thy neighbor as thyself . ’ ” “ r Th n speech . Nothing in our Lo d s min e rest of his ethical teachi g fol ” r f istry impresses me mo e, Latham lows by way O application or counsel extraordin goes on to say, than the from these . Just what in specific de
ary sobriety of the whole movement . tail are the decisions and the paths of We hear nothing of religious trans action befitting those who in the suc Tr hu v port or ecstatic devotion . ue cessi e generations Seek first the man freedom was with Him a sacred kingdom of God and his righteous for r con thing ; what man was made was ness , is left to thei mind and that he might be a free spiritual science to learn through experience in His r being ; and a man is notfree when he the light Of S pi it . is fascinated by fervent oratory and When we areexhorted to build the o r or ” becomes the blind t ol Of anothe , kingdom of God in accordance with r “ when he is intoxicated by eligious - r the blue print of Jesus , the figu e fanaticism and is no longer master of e r Of speech is misleading . Jesus n ithe ” his own i . nor m nd gave to His contemporaries , left ’ r re To say that Jesus teaching was for future gene ations , anything reasonable is not to reduce it to the sembling a blue- print for social re
- r or r - for con dull prose of a class room lectu e , building, or a oad map the
r or - c for to hold that it was Simply a matte duct of life , a time s hedule r n t r of deduction from premises al eady human history . He did o dep ive ’ His r of r r established . Jesus teaching was vi followe s thei f eedom and r to r is b rant with new life and interest . And esponsibility disce n what the w of it came, in its distinctive aspects , ill and kingdom God in the chang ' straight from his own intuition and ing tides of circumstance and the on THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
ward march of events . The ideas O f we of the democratic countries have i learning, of investigation , of d scov failed to achieve and maintain that r ery, of education are intrinsically e vital union of religion and education lated tothe Christian faith . with democracy which should be our T Distinguishing marks of the educa ideal as Christians . hese three great tional method as contrasted with the interests of the human soul have
pulled apart, and the result is that methods of politics , propaganda or are: I i democracy is gravely threatened from conflict (a) ntellgence. Theuse
within . F or the sake of brevity and of the mind , the appeal to understand
concreteness , I shall speak only O f our ing, the development of rational con
confusion here in the U nited S tates . trol , as contrasted with mere training in habit or emotional conditioning . Religion is at fault when it fails re c r (b) F reedom . The absence of coer to spe t human pe sonality and sets cion , whether it be by physical con itself in Opposition to the human straint or legal penalty or unfair mind . It may do this in various ways : r r r r emotional conditioning . ( c) F ellow by asse ting that a bit a iness marks ’ hi T r - s p . he learner is regarded not as God s sove eignty, and over empha “ an animal to be trained or as a unit sizing his other- ness to man ; by r r r re to be fitted into an o ganization , but making mi acle sup eme , to the la er r of O f r as a p son who is to be espected , tive neglect those laws natu e ’ r r ar t usted , bef iended , and helped to which eGod s accustomed ways ; by grow in responsible freedom and ra conceiving the grace of God as a me tional - r chanical r r n of self cont ol . ( d) O bjectivity. and ove powe i g denial Teacher and learner owe a common human freedom rather than as a per submission to those bodies of truth sonal relation which affirms it ; by re and fact and to their great values and garding conversion as invariably ideals which are relevant to their emotional and episodic , and confusing purposes but which areno mere crea evangelism with revivalism ; by too f r r r tion o their desires . sha ply sunde ing evelation and rea r r That the totalitarian governments son , faith and knowledge ; by ega d have set their might against that ing the kingdom of God as other r of r wo ldly only, and failing to pray and union eligious faith , democratic r to labor that His kingdom may come f eedom , and education in and for Hi truth which is intrinsic to Christian and s will be done on earth ; by ity, needs no saying ; and I pass the acquiescing in political and social and subject without further remark than economic injustice ; by making of itself an escape oran opiate ; by undue to suggest, as illuminating statements r in - emphasis upon theological doctrines eadily available E nglish , the ad which are second ary and inferential dresses by Wilhelm Hauer, leader of ; by jealous and decisive insistence the German Faith Movement , which r upon some cherished feature of cc have been t anslated under the title , ’ clesiastical Germ n N i polity . a ys ew Relgion, and the r r Th r book by Geo ge F . Knelle on e Democ acy is at fault when it tends E ducational Philosophy of National to rely upon propaganda rather than oci S alism . upon education and when it tries to r r for o It is mo e impo tant, ur dis do without God . When Thomas cussion r H r i today, that we conside how ooke , the f rst great exponent of 10 THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
r r for political democ acy in this country, g oups a positive reconsideration asserted that “ the foundation of au of its total trend and inevitable re h i sults t or ty is laid in the free consent of . Adherents of all faiths in ” the people and that “ the choice of America have been more concerned public magistrates belongs unto the that the public schools should not con ’ own people by God s allowance , he tain any element to which they could are r f added , what we in dange o for Obj ect, than they have been to con getting , that the right of suffrage serve ih these schools the great prin which belongs tothe people ought not ciples O f morals and religion upon r P to be exercised according to their which they ag ee . rotestant, Cath r r humo s , but acco ding to the blessed olic, and Jew have Shared in this f ” o d r . All will and law Go . If democ acy movement must shoulder some of has no foundation and frame of ref the responsibility for the Situation r of r r erence in standa ds ight and t uth into which we have drifted . and duty such as faith conceives to be In the twentieth century, there has of the will and law God , it becomes a been a rather general disposition to mere conflict of desires where the ma accept the exclusion of religion from jority rules by might or the minority the public schools as a matter Of rules by cunning, and freedom is course , something closed and done , o in us m cked by social and economic j inevitable and irrevocable . Discussion The end of r as P tice . that oad , lato O f the problem has usually been more
us a o r . told long g , is dictato ship concerned with a rationalization of E i i ducation s at fault when it g the present situation than with its nores God and drifts into secularism i serious recons deraiton. This Some far and pragmatism . We have gone what surprising readiness to be con in this direction . tent with the omission from public r re In the nineteenth centu y, he in education of specifically religious ele r r r Ame ica , the g adual secula ization ments has been due, not so much to of education was incidental rather the sectarianism of religion , though was r than purposed . It la gely due to t r r that has remained, as o othe facto s the r of our r or secta ianism eligious which bear more directly and pur anizations and the fact that we held g , posively upon the secularization Of our diverse religious beliefs in so public education . Am ong these may j ealous and divisive a fashion . It was be named : ( 1) the general secular not infidels or atheists or free think ization of life and cheapening Of hu ers whodid most totake religious ele man inte rests which have characte r ments out of the life and curriculum ized the twentieth century thus far; of our public schools . It was people ( 2) the prevalence in theology until who spoke in the name Of religion . f one- r very recently o a sided emphasis Whenever a group , o even an indi to to r upon the imm anence of God to the vidual , chose Object some elig ious element in the p rogram or curri neglect or denial of His transcend culum Of the public schools that ele ance ; ( 3) the popular vogue of prag matism instrumentalism and experi ment was forthwith eliminated . The , movement was almost wholly nega mentalism— to use the successive n has r tive . There has been no coming to ames which the movement bo ne gether of the different religious —and the tremendous influence of THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN 11
r O f this p agmatic point view in edu little book to which I have referred . cation . Counts gives a ringing affrmativean Mistaken as I think John Dewey is swer to the question posed in the title Dare the S chool in his attitude toward religion and of his pamphlet, Build a N ew S ocial rder? toward God, I share the general j udg O , and ment that he is our foremost educa frankly says that he would introduce “ our O f tional philosopher. N O more trench into schools a vision what ant criticism has been made of much America might become in the indus ” T “ that goes on under the name of pro trial age . his vision would be the
- r one gressiveeducation than is to be found sup eme imposition , but to which our children are entitled- a priceless in his compact book , published in 1 n r E ti legacy which it should be the first 988, o E xp e ience and duca on. The sound principles of the move concern of our profession to fashion ” ar and bequeath . ment, he says , etoo Often developed negatively— by mere rejection of In his recent book on E ducation for
r rac H. what has been the t aditional p D emocracy in O ur Time, Jesse tice— rather than positively and con Newlon strongly Opposes what he ” — “ structively. The result is I quote calls the myth of neutrality in edu — “ f n him that many O the newer cation, a d holds that education schools tend to make little or nothing should be consciously planned to win “ of organized subject- matter of study ; American youth to an informed loy to proceed as if any form of direction alty to democracy as a way, the best ” : and guidance by adults were an inva way of life . I quote a few sentences “ o sion of individual freedom, and as if E ducation that does not disp se to the idea that education should be con action is not education . TO win youth cerned with the present and future thus to democracy is to assure the ‘ ’ meant that acquaintance with the preservation of the essential values past has little or no role to play in r of in of our culture, such as f eedom ” education . r r quiry, speech , and p ess , eligious r A Significant change is taking place freedom , f eedom of teaching, and of r r r in the attitude p og essive educa government by the people . A centu y r r in r - to s towa d what the fi st hey day ago democracy was truly evangelical . of the movement was given the bad Has it lost its vitality ? Will it be able “ r T r name indoct ination . hei view to withstand the onslaughts of au r then was that at all points whe e de thoritarianism in the twentieth cen cision may be involved and attitudes tury if it has not the will to make are being formed the teacher must , converts to its values ? not intrude and the school must be P All this is very promising . ro neutral . F or the teacher or even the ressive t parent to share his faith with the g education is being subjec ed - i r children and to hope to win them to a to severe self examinat on f om r e r unwar within , and bids fai to be eman i like faith , was egarded as an pated from some of its vagaries and ranted imposition , a sin against the ’ r r tre child s individuality . Not what to the eby st engthened to make the mendousl r r think , but how to think , is important . y impo tant cont ibution to This extreme View is now being modi human development which is implicit fled r . Dewey c iticizes it sharply in the in its principles . 12 THE ' PR I N CE TO N S EMINAR Y B ULLE TIN
But I venture to think that this relatively uncritical acceptance of the
- - mor r r r fundam n self examination and self criticism es, athe than eally e are not yet sufficiently searching tal experiment on the one hand or r hilO S O hi and drastic . I suggest three points at rigo ous p p c thinking on the r r which much mo e needs to be done . othe . “ ( 1) The concepts of authority The omission of faith in God from ” to be r and absolute need estudied , our basic philosophy O f education and r i r c itically def ned , and used with mo e from the program of our schools con
r . r r p ecision At p esent these te ms , veys to children and youth a strong with the correlative terms “ authori negative suggestion which tends to ” “ tarianism and absolutism serve as nullify rather than to fulfil our Amer r of - for r a so t whipping post eve y ican principle of religious liberty . It r a thing the c itics Oppose , kind of involves us in the anomalous position ,
Gehenna to which is consigned indis as Professor F . E rnest Johnson has criminatel r r er y whateve in histo y, reminded us , of attempting to p pet e or r metaphysics , th ology t adition it uate and advance a culture without t r is convenient at the moment odec y . informing our children as to the faith But democracy cannot dispense with which has inspired and supported it .
r r . all autho ity , and itself implies faith It imperils the future of democ acy r are r r O f in ce tain values that absolute . Professor M . L . Jacks, Di ecto the ( 2) The p revalent and generally Department of E ducation at Oxford avowed philosophy Of the movement U niversity, has put this vividly in his
r E ation. is still p agmatism , under whatever recent book on God in duc “ new names it appears from time to Democracy is in danger because it is Pr f time . agmatism is not a sufficient abandoning the spiritual basis o its f or . r base education In theo y, it is a being ; it is becoming polytheistic and convenient way of avoiding the cen materialistic In secularizing man tral problems Of philosophy ; in prac it is Showing a profound ignorance of “ of its own tice , it leads in the end to might man , and of the basis wel ” r T r it r makes ight . he world is enduring fare . The libe ty which p ofesses r r today the t agic issue of its experi is liberty without an end , and the e r ment with p agmatism . fore no true liberty ; the individual ( 3) God and religion are ignored whom it spoils is an individual with a r r r r or relegated tothe side - lines as a spe out pu pose , and the efo e no t ue
cial r r individual . In these days of panic and inte est Of the chu ch and home . r rr power politics , the democ atic state I am refe ing , of course , to the meta physically real G od of natural theol needs discipline and authority no less r : ogy and of the Hebrew- Christian tra than the totalita ian only so can it n t compete with its enemies on equal dition , a d o the sort of religion But r r which is the appropriate expression terms . the democ atic autho ity ’ r w of man s relation to that God . must by definition come f om ithin
and cannot be imposed from without, At these three points , I believe , the proponents and critics of progressive and the discipline must be the self education have not yet delved deeply discipline Of a man who believes in himself because he believes in God enough . One gets the impression that w w r ith respect to these matters , hich and sees a meaning and a pu pose in ” i his e n . are of crucial importance , there s a xiste ce THE PRINCETON S EMINARY B ULLETIN 13
I do notundertake at this time any termining our ultimate convictions is r r A E Ta l ’ discussion of highe education . Let shown by such wo ks as . . y or s me say simply that in addition to the The F aith of a M oralist; and that general factors making for secular theology can build upon, rather than ization, there has been in the case O f deny, the methods and results of the ' ’ the colleges and universities another sciences , by such as F . R . Tennant s — Phil i powerful factor the specialization of osop h calTheology. scholarship and the departmentaliza I do not attribute the rift between
. The re r e tion of faculties sult is that education and eligion, betwe n sci i philosophy s at a low ebb , and has ence and theology to human pervers r r itself become absurdly specialized ; ity, but athe to human failure . And while religion has almost disappeared the failure that we of the churches from the curriculum and has become and synagogues ought to consider is “ ” n r - not so o eof the volunta y side Shows . To much that of the educators as our r make up for the fact that professors own failu e . We must have failed are too commonly specialists con dismally in ourattempt to portray the r r ce ned with particular phases O f sub t uth of God which claims us , if men t e r of jec s, rather than men capable of wis and t ache s intellectual integrity r are dom in dealing with students , there have thus misunde stood us and has been an enormous increase in re inclined to pass religion and theology r O f b cent yea s administrative staffs , y as r T L r such deans , vocational di ectors , hou shalt love the o d thy God ”
r f r . O ur pe sonnel Of ice s , counsellors , psy with all thy mind duty as men chiatri t use our s s and mental hygienists , to who would love God is to
- help put together the students whom minds . We must get as true a faith as r P the professo s tear apart . resident we can, and as much knowledge as we
Hutchins , of the U niversity of Chi can , both in theology and in ethics . r cago , has presented a keen diagnosis We must unde take this intellectual
O f the situation , but the remedies he labor with as much Objectivity of r are p oposes dubious . mind and willingness to acknowledge r e O f scien There is a curious assumption by new t uth as we exp ct the tis or r current writers that education must t the histo ian . T be based on one end of an E ither—O r hou shalt love thy neighbor as ”
O ur to our r . disjunction— either pragmatism or thyself . duty is live c eed T r the authoritarianism and absolutism hat involves mo e than sentimental r r which they anathematize ; and they love of mankind in gene al , mo e than assume further that Christian theism watching and waiting for a yet dis r belongs inevitably with authoritar tant kingdom of God , and mo e than r ianism and absolutism . Both of these empty claiming of individual f ee r r assumptions are false . There is no dom ; it involves eadiness to unde r such forced disj unction , either logic take the se vice and to make the sac ally or in practice ; and learning from rifices which the upbuilding and experience is of the very essense of maintenance and defense of true dem r r r Ch istian faith and Ch istian theol oc acy demand of us . Hard days lie T P ogy . hat a latonist can be keenly ahead , for us as well as for the rest O f r r sensitive to empi ical fact and ecog the world . But we will not forsake nize the rightful place of faith in de the ideals that have thus far shaped 14 THE PRINCE TON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
what is best in the life of America . of that great word from the writer of “ r H “ We will , like our fathers , che ish the the epistle to the ebrews : Faith
“ freedom of the human spirit, seek to gives substance to our hopes ; faith know and strive to do the will of God, proves what we do not see We are and be sustained by unwavering faith not the men to Shrink back and be to in His goodness and j ustice . We face lost , but to have faith and so win ” r the issues of the future in the spi it our souls .
16 THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
r r r ar questions , which a ose in othe e iti loved ones e in deadly peril , we ’ ’ cal eriods of r S O p the Chu ch s life, it would be worse than infidels if we did we k not r ” has also , believe, a li e obligation esist to the death . t r hi “ connec ed with the p oblems w ch Another speaks : I am frankly are r Wh are a ising in this age . at a to puzzled s what to think and do . f ? some o these problems There can be no difference of opinion regarding the leaders of the totalitar B ian states . utthey arethe product of First and most pressing at the pres f causes which go ar back , causes ent hour in the mind of the man on which have their roots in selfishness the street is that which has todowith r and g eed and a disregard of GM . w are not ar and peace . We thinking And in these things all nations have now Of the political issues and impli r o ” a measu e f responsibility . cations involved , but rather O f the And they areall asking us concern question as it relates itself to the ing God . Where is the love of which in K m of God, and the duty of n you have been preaching ? Why must Christian citizens . - r Czecho peaceful , God fea ing peoples , H r are of e e some the questions they S r The r “ lovakia, No way, Nethe lands ,
r to us. b ing We have been taught, be crushed and bleeding beneath the “ r i they sa , tobelieve that Ch ist s the y iron heel of ruthless Oppression ? “ ’ Prince of Peace . We have cherished In U ncle Tom s Cabin George His promise that the day will come Harris tells of the cruelties and not r when nation shall lift up swo d r c imes of the slave holders . Heis tor r r wa against nation , o lea n r any tured with the thought that he is a no r . r r mo e We know that he etofo e , helpless slave and that his wife and matter what may be the convictions children may be sold away from him . of individuals they all with one ac “ , They buy and sell us and make trade cord when the bugles sound the call ’ , of our hearts blood and groans and r r r to a ms, let thei p inciples and r od tea s , and G lets them , He does . r scruples go by the boa ds, and take God lets them . their places in the ranks . Is it not B w utGod as notunmindful . It was time for some of us to stand for our r r convictions at whatever cost ? Will only a little late that anothe voice “
a r . war ever end until some believers in sounded c oss the nation Fondly — the teachings of Jesus are brave do we hope fervently do we pray enough to turn the other cheek and that this mighty scourge of war may ? ” wills take the consequences speedily pass away . Yet if God Before we can even try to reply that it continue until all the wealth ’ another voice am faced piled by the bondmen s two hundred r r with a dilemma . The issue is not be and fifty yea s Of un equited toil shall r r r of tween ight and wrong, but between be sunk , and until eve y d op blood r e r a two cou s s both of which arewrong . d awn with the lash sh ll be paid r r n On the one hand we cannot reconcile with anothe d aw with the sword , w as wa ar with the teachings and example s said three thousand years ago, f o ‘ o Christ . On the other we cannot s still it must be said : The j udg countenance passivism . When our ments of the Lord aretrue and right r Ch istian ideals , when our homes and eous altogether. THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN 17
r We cannot explain the mystery of ished product of your class oom , but suffering from the levels of our hu of your pens also . man understanding, butcome up with Habakuk into the watch- tower of which he spoke . From thence we can Again , questions having to do with f r see ar away a C oss upon a hill . On a changing industrial order arepress it is One, in whom was no fault, dying r or ing in upon uS . Whethe we like it with a prayer on His lips for the men r not, and most of us p obably do not, Him who put there . When we see that we cannot close our eyes to the revo Cross we know that somehow the suf lution which is sweeping across the ferings O f the innocent are bound up r world . In Russia and Ge many it has ’ in God s plan for the better world come with violence and blood . In that is coming . Britain and America it is coming These questions will become more gradually and thus far without vio
r on. r p essing as time goes We can no lence . The wo ld is moving steadily
- longer look to so called Christian toward a new economic order. The r rulers to Show the way . O newonders election of the President for a thi d
r ar . r r if the e e any such In the Chu ch , term , with his p onounced ideas and r r and in the leade s she is aising up , ideals , speaks plainly as to the will is the only hope of the world . And the O f the American people and the goal
Church has never spoken clearly upon toward which we are moving . w f f the subject of ar. The Kingdom o It is notalways easy or men living God can never come until war ends in the quiet atmosphere of a U niver and the power of men is free to build sity town to realize how rapidly t he City of God . E verything else we events are moving in this direction . , are doing at home and abroad is of We who are in continual touch with little avail while this dragon of hell conditions in our great industrial still rises to prey upon mankind . We areas know that the Church is faced believe that our seminaries should with new forces which it cannot devote themselves earnestly to the ignore . task of preparing the Christian lead Large fortunes in the possession of ers of the years beyond this war to individuals and families will soon be guide the Church and the world out of t a thing of the past in this coun ry . this darkness to the dawn of a new The economic system to which we day . have been accustomed is on its way t r r con O ne day last week we saw in a ou . Gove nment egulation and bookstore several volumes by mem trol aremarching down every road of
our . bers of the faculty of this S eminary . national life r r r You men he e , with you schola ship Two things this S eminary can and r r r and wide expe ience can ende us a Should do . It should apply itself with great service by sending out books all diligence to the financial cam wh a like these . We o refighting at the paign for the rehabilitation and front are Often hard pressed to hold strengthening of its material equip our own r in the face of the fo ces of ment . The securing O f funds for this ar n evil which e ow so strong . We purpose may not be easy now . It will need every reinforcement which you be still less easy in years to come with e can s nd us . We need notonly the fin a government by politicians in control 18 THE PRINCE TON S EMINAR Y B ULLE TIN
w of r of . N o is the sou ces supply the tic , opened schools for the training of time to lengthen our cords and young men for the administration of r n ur st e gthen o stakes . the colonial empire of which She M oreoxer n r Ar , this cha ge in the indus d eamed . e the children of this trial and social world will vitally af world wiser in their generation than r new r r ? feet the Chu ch . In the o de the children of light S hould we not w I s on a r r r hich the ythe Chu ch should he e , mo e than ever before , be train n at T is be Sitti g the Council able . It ing men to man the far outposts Of the Church which will determine the Christian imperialism which is w r new r r is to hethe this o de be nihil coming . istic and atheistic , as in Russia and i Germany, or whether it s to be n The guided by the teachi gs Of Jesus . r is Again , the voice f om the street young men whoarenow preparing in calling for preaching that has to do our r for semina ies leadership will n M with vital thi gs . en arenotpartie have a part in shaping the new society w ularly interested in what e think , or which is to emerge from the present in what some recent writer has said . upheaval . They are hungry to know the will of G od f or them in this age of tumult “ n and confusion . Fortu e , that most M oreover the on r is r , man the st eet secular of magazines , last yea _ beginning to rethink missions . We sounded a trumpet call to the pulpit r n have always p eached missions and at topreach the thi gs that really count . times it was not very easy to press Twenty- three years ago the Speaker its claims home in the face of the nar had an experience which will always row r of r in N o p ovincialism many Ch istian be with him . We were then r h is now for rt w n people . T at the most pa folk and the World War as e tering M of . r r on a thing the past ode n means its fourth year, with Ame ica the of r m was t avel and co munication have side of the Allies . Norfolk the w n broken all the barriers do n . The most important Naval S tation o the ’ r of r r of Communist s d eam conve ting the continent , and the chief po t em ’ world ; the Nazis ambition to master barkation for American troops . It it, have made man seehow reasonable was a S unday morning in June and is the command of our Lord to make the hour for morning worship had f The m r o . r f disciples all nations i pe ial come . Busy in another pa t o the istic vision has been growing in the church weknew nothing of what was n r lay mind Of the Church . In addition occurring until we Ope ed the doo to To our the need of the world and the mind and entered the chancel . of Christ we must do this thing to amazement the church was packed r r Z r save ou selves f om being submerged . with New ealand t oops , while the Never has it been so easy to speak regular congregation was milling in n t n m r o missions o thinki g people as the street . With the entry of A e ica now w i Pa . When this ar s over the the transports were c rossing the
Church will face the greatest O ppor cific and through the Panama Canal . tunity it has known since the Aseen O ne of them had stopped that morn w H to r sion . Years ago Germany , ithout a ing in ampton Roads coal befo e n n B l r men colony, with o lands beyo d the a c ossing the Atlantic and the had THE PRINCE TON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN 19
been given shore leave to attend of the Lord in these days . There is no r r for e r chu ch. place in the minist y the f a ful T r f New Zealand was at that time con and afraid . he e is no room or di
- H scripting men up to fifty fiveyears Of vided interests . ewhofollows must M age . any of those soldiers were the leave all . fathers of sons who had fallen in the Long ago a visitor went to a home r shambles Of Gallipoli . They we e go - for aged sea faring men in E ngland . r to r ing di ectly F ance and the battle He was told that an old veteran was r F or of f ont . most them it was the there who had served under Nelson at r last church se vice . As I looked into Trafalgar. He sought him out and their faces they seemed to say to me : asked him to tell him of the great “ are to We who about die salute you . r Admiral . The Old man tu ned his And then came such a searching of sightless eyes in his direction and r r r “ hea t as I had neve known befo e . said : Just a little half- pint of a man Had for r I a message them , a wo d of ne arm one as he was , o , eye , limp as r a ’ hope and comfo t s they faced the a sick kitten when the ship was rollin ? unknown ir in the storm ; but 0 , s , when the flag r r r Neve do I stand befo e a c owded was at the masthead , and the decks r now chu ch without living that day were cleared for action , and the lin again , without asking that same ques stocks were lighted , then he was a rr r f ” r r tion . Life is te ibly se ious or most flame of fire. In this wa fa e in of the people who listen to us. There which we have enlisted the flag is at r are are befo e me long rows of men , the masthead and the decks being r r i unc r wea y and wo n with to l and er cleared . We need men upon the qua f fire tainty . There are mothers anxious terdeck now who area flame o . ? and troubled about many things . Who is sufficient for these things There areyouths moving away into a In my own hours of perplexity I like t of future which seems o most them to turn once more to that book which T ar r . r e re so da k he e faces the , look in my day as a child we knew almost on ing up at me , which is the sentence to r by heart . Prudence said Ch istian T are for “ of death . hey asking some Can you remember by what means ’ message from God s Word that will you find your troubles as if they were give them rest and peace and eternal ? ” banished Thepilgrim , with his face hope . God pity me if, when they look r toward the Celestial City, made eply for r “ to me b ead , I give them a stone . When I think what I saw at the Cross that will do it ; and when I look
on my broidered coat, that will do it ; r Finally, the world is looking to the also , when I look into the oll that I pulpit for men O f burning hearts . carry in my bosom , that will do it ; S ometimes we wish the Gideon tests and when my thoughts are warm could be applied to those who are an about whither I am going, that will ” swering the call to come to the help do it . 20 THE P N C S L , RI ETON EMINAR Y B U LETIN
G LEANING S F ROM ANN U AL REPORTS
E have extracted and tran all at work with the exception of one scribed for readers Of the BU L within a very Short time after grad uati n The r ’ LE TI N items of special interest from o . membe s of this year s several annual reports submitted to class have already been placed with B T Ma r f r . the oa d o ustees in y the exception of four. Requests come to us more and more from F rom theR ep ortof thePresid ent spheres and regions not for of theS eminary ’ merly very receptive to Princeton S r now CONCE RN ING THE S TUDENTS emina y men but which Show an increasing disposition to wel The new sense Of institutional re come O ur students or our graduates . sponsibility in the student body has ‘ Last year two of our students served re flected itself in a diversity of ways . the New York City Mission on week One is the organized effort carried r r F or net out by the students themselves in the ends th oughout the yea . x ’
r are do so. r f yea , five being invited to inte ests o the S tudent Center. This e r r effort led to a pledge by the maj ority In this conn ction a wo d of p aise is f t to Dr. R br our o S u of our students amounting to more due o e ts , Dean dents for his admi rable success in than the first payment to , our our r wards which is to be made when they placing students , and g ad H mri hausen for Dr. o nates , and to g r ‘ eceive their first salary as ministers . the surveillance t ich‘ he exercises Another evidence of the same spi rit over those men in the S eminary who Shows itself in the leadership of stu '
rr out r r . dents in organizing the annual All ca y p actical p ojects If the B r r recom S eminary Banquet which this year oa d gives its app oval to the mendation of rr Com was attended by 257 persons in the the Cu iculum
' r now ou th r n mittee that we employ f om Princeton Inn . A thi rd is e o ga wards the services O f a special S uper ization by students of an evangelistic
visor of Field Work , we may look team toconductG ospelmeetingsunder forward to the day at no distant date S eminary auspices during the coming r r r when all the wo k unde taken by stu summer. The growing missiona y dents during their S eminary course sense of our student body as a whole will be personally superintended . We is evidenced by the fact that this sum hope also that the time is not far Off mer some fifty students will serve un when all students attending the S em der the Board of National Missions . inar will engage during their course Last year the number was twenty y in some practical Christian proj ect as five . an indispensable prerequisite for
DEMAND F O R PRINCETON GRADUATES their right to graduate .
We have reason to thank G od also THE GRADUATE DEPART M ENT for the increasing demand that comes r our r tous for our graduates from different Thegrowing inte est in g ad r’ uate department is still another occa parts of the country . Last yea s O r graduating class of sixty- three were sion for sincere thank fulness . the THE PRINCETON S EMI NAR Y B ULLETIN 21
Pr r r esbyterian semina ies which for minist y and laity, and , at the same r r me ly sent their graduates for ad time , make ou S eminary campus a vanced work to leading seminaries desirable place for the meetings of not belonging to the Presbyterian other Christian groups . It is true that Church now begin to send them to the campaign to secure the necessary
Princeton . We look forward to re funds for this building has put an ceiving for graduate work next year unusual strain upon the time and en an outstanding student who graduates ergy of those of us who have taken this year from the foremost liberal part in it . It is also an open question r r r semina y in the country . This , we whethe the method we have pu sued o r venture tohope, is the precursor of a to attain u objective is the most r r r for t end . In the meantime the reputa app op iate a theological semi tion of our Faculty and the interest nary like ours or the best financial awakened in the new studies for the method for any Christian institution . But r r Doctor of Theology degree bring us , howeve Opinion may diffe on ifli l students from many different denom this score , and however d cu t the inations. national and international situation
may still become , the vision of the PE DE GO GI CAL I MPROVE MENTS hard years of reconstruction which As a final cause for thankfulness will inevitably follow the present ti e r r I will mention the great success O f the tani st uggle and the inc easing de new survey course in S ystematic The mands that will be made upon the Christian Church to play a worthy ology which is taught to Juniors , and r r r of the several group electives in the pa t in this econst uction , demand er S same subject which are offered to that in all things p taining to emi r nary policy we must take a long- range Middle s and S eniors . From next year V r this new pedagogical approach will be iew . When we conside that also r applied also to the study of Church fifty yea s have passed since we had r O f our own H an enti ely new building , istory . and that within this period great uni THE S TUDENT CENTER versities were founded and have reached the peak of their develop I pass now to matters of concern . ment it is clearly time that the intel I am concerned that we should suc , lectual and spiritual needs of students oecd in erecting the new S tudent Cen for r or ter r the next half centu y even a at the ea liest possible moment . r centu y Should claim our efforts now. The sooner we have this building the Only so can we provide this historic sooner shall we be able to cope with campus with equipment worthy of the important campus problems which Church to which it belongs and ade cannot be dealt with satisfactorily until our students are socially one as quate to the needs of the age into , E are . the members of a graduate college which we moving ven now as our and of a professional school for the the student body grows and training of Christian ministers should classes are broken up into smaller r r fi n oups for o e ef cient teachin , be o e. The sooner this Center be g m g r r r comes a reality, the sooner will it be class oom Space becomes a eal p ob possible to undertake extension activ lem . Not only so , but in the not dis ’ ities in the interests of the church s tant future the growth of our famous THE ' PR I N CE TO N S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN library will make it imperative that I tis my hope that these recommenda w e face the problem of housing it tions may be ready for the October worthily in ampler and more adequate of B a meeting the o rd, and that within r r qua te s . When we succeed in doing a year from this date the first number so r f , it would be legitimate to d eam o of the new theological magazine may r on Offe ing a home this campus to be available . I Share this concern with scattered collections of books indis you in the assurance that you will pensablefor research in Presbyterian recognize its weight and be ready in r r and Ch istian histo y, which , if they due course to sponsor the project to r our ” became pa t Of collection , would which it refers . be made available for the study of scholars in a way that is notpossible F rom the R eportof the Dean of today . S tudents
PROSPECT IVE R ENAISSANCE O F THE The enrollment of this year com PRINCETON THEOLOGI CAL R EVIEW pared with that O f last year is as fol lows :
r ’ I am conce ned also that, within . in 1940 v s. 1941 the course of another year we should , Fellows 5 5 be able to publish a successor to the Graduate students 25 41 Theological Review which under , S eniors 63 51 r va yin titles , was identified with this g Middlers 55 63 S r for r r no emina y nea ly a centu y . At r 64 ’ Junio s 75 our S e r r time in mina y s histo y was S pecial students 4 5 the need for such an organ greater n than today, or the opportunities to give direction toconfused minds more r imp essive . When people Of all S TUDENTS AN D THE S ELECTIVE classes are craving for authority the , S ERVICE ACT voice of an institution which has stood throughout its history for the The S elective S ervice Act has had authority of God in His Word should no noticeable affect upon applications for t r r r . o be hea d in a qua te ly magazine admission this S eminary, nor t This magazine would bear in an un o any other. S ome individuals have r mistakable way both the accent Of been app ehensive , thinking that the eternity and the accent Of contempor seminaries would lose through the
r re- r ary relevance . O ur Faculty is now d aft many p semina y students our h ready to assume its Share of the re now in colleges . T e decision re sponsibility for producing such a pub garding the status Of such students is h n lication. Other Christian thinkers of left by the government in t eha dsof ' r Th f our Reformed faith in this and other the local d aft board . etendency o countries can be relied upon to co such boards is to place college stu B r operate . The oard will be inte ested dents preparing for the ministry on r om toknow that the Administ ative C the deferred list . S ince the draft mittee appointed a j oint committee of boards are permitting these men to
Tr r r - ustees and Faculty to bring in finish thei p e seminary training, recommendations to both bodies for they will no doubt permit them to con
- n launching this much needed j ournal . tinne o to the seminary. The govern
24 THE —PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
r u The fi continued with g eat s ccess . ed according to the Library of Con t of r are fol r s atistics ci culation as g ess schedules upon their receipt . I t lows : students borrowed for use out has now been possible to recatalogue side the Library items ; Protes and reclassify more than titles sors and other individuals with fac in the new classification since Novem ult r e y p ivileges , items ; alumni b r. All of our books on the history T r e . he and f iends , it ms total of North and S outh America have r r ci culation , including ove night loans , been reclassified so that the study of was the secular backgrounds of American church history and of inter- continen G IF T TO THE LI RARY tal r S B coope ation will be encouraged .
“ The maj ority Of our books on the The resources of the Library were secular backgrounds of missionary increased by the gift Of more than work in the F ar E ast Asia and four hundred volumes of the modern , , Africa have also been recatalogued Jews and Jewish evangelization from and reclassified . This work was done D r the library of r. John S tua t Conn under the direction of the head cata ing . Over Six hundred volumes were la oguer, Miss Isabelle S touffer. The presented by other friends of the Li checking of our files for listing in the b a r n r ry. Ove o ethousand books were new edition of The U nion List O f S e r E n pu chased . I mportations from g rials has been completed . land have arrived fairly regularly in spite of the great damage done to the A L D London book trade in the raid of De S T TI STICA ATA cember 29 . Comparatively few items The detailed statistics of additions have been received from continental to the Library from May 1, 1940 to E r er t of u ope wh e the agen s the Li 1 1 r April 30, 94 , a e as follows : brary are holding periodicals and continuations for which standing or B f ders had been placed . ecause o the decline in the number of new books r r was published , the Lib a y able to purchase a number of Older books of r r ecognized schola ship which could Total additions not be purchased shortly after their w publication . Withdra als Discarded R ECATALOGUIN G By rebinding and recounting The recataloguing has been car ried on more rapidly this year than m 1 Net additions ever before . On Nove ber the Li r 1 Reported Ap il 30, 940 brary adopted the classification of the Library of Congress for all secular T r of vol fields Of study . All new books outside otal numbe bound r 30 1941 the field of theology have been classi umes Ap il , THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN 25
Pamphlets : Reported April 30 1940 Additions , Withdrawals T r am h Discarded otal numbe of p p lets April 30 1941 By binding and , recounting Total number of bound vol umes and pamphlets April 96 1 Net additions 30, 941 26 THE - PRINCE TON S EMINAR Y B ULLE TIN
COM M ENCEM ENT 1941
S EM INARY S UNDAY Matters of Special interest trans acted by the Board were : the election O LLO WI N G the precedent estab O f Dr. P H n Otto A . iper to the ele H. P.
lished last year, a special sermon Manson Chair of New Testament Lit on r n M r c the Ch istia inist y was d liv erature D ; the election of r. J . Christy r r Pr r r ’ e ed in the Fi st esbyte ian Chu ch Wilson ( class of 19 ) to be S uperviso r of Princeton at the Special invitation of r Field Wo k ; and the election of Dr. ’ of S of r f r Loetsch 2 the ession the Chu ch and the Lef e ts A . er ( class of 8 ) to T r . r S . . r pasto , the Rev F ank Niles his be Inst uctor in Church History . year the sermon was preached by the S O IAL E VE NT President of the S eminary . C S TheBaccalaureate S ervice was held The reception by President and ’ M r r M n M in ille Chapel at fou o clock in the Mrs. ackay o onday afternoon at r n w afte noon , with the attendance of the S pri gdale as attended by the larg
es r in r r . The members of the graduating class , t gathe ing ecent yea s w r was r r . eathe pe fect , and lu ni and their friends , and the gene al public A m r P new g aduates , rofessors and Trus D D . r B m . TheRev . Leona d V . usch an , , te r f 1 1 r es , th onged the lawn in happy fel O f the class o 9 8, ministe Of the l w i B o sh p . Central Presbyterian Church , uffalo , P f r r In the evening the annual Alumni New York , and resident o the yea was U r - banquet held in the nive sity 1940 41 of the Alumni Association , gymnasium with an attendance of preached the sermon . At the close the ’ r r . Dr r . S acrament of the Lord s S upper was about fou hund ed . Leona d V B Pr of M uschman , esident the Alumni administered by President ackay,
r . The Dr B Association , p esided special assisted by . uschman .
guest Of the evening was Dr. Luther At the evening service in the First f U r A . Weigle Dean o Yale nive sity Church a special missionary address , , Divinity S chool and President of the w , as delivered by the Rev . Irvin W . Federal Council of the Churches O f D U nderhill , Jr D . . , of the class of Christ in America . Dean Weigle gave 1928 who has had a record of dis , a most interesting and thoughtful ad tin i h r r gu s ed missiona y se vice in the “ dress on the subj ect Democracy, Cameroun . ” E ducation and Faith in God . At the business session held in the MEETI NG O F THE BOARD O F TRUSTEES H r course of the evening, the Rev . e Th B r Tr D I m e oa d Of ustees convened in bert Booth S mith, . D . , of the e L was the usual place Of meeting, the L nox manuel Church , O S Angeles , r r M n M f As Lib a y, at A . . , o onday, elected the new President o the ’ Ma 2 r Tr 1 . y Afte the annual ustees sociation . S r r r Luncheon at p ingdale , whe e the Music , popula and classical , was
Trustees and their wives we re guests rendered in the course of the evening . “ ” f Pr M rs M o esident and . ackay, busi The leader of the old favorites was w E D a r at D . r r. ness s esumed an afte rnoon ses r. Charles R dman ; while Williamson and his famous Choir re THE PRINCETON S EMI NARY B ULLE TIN 27 galed those present with an exquisite ing features of the occasion was the rendering of selected pieces from presence of more than thirty members r r their inexhaustible repertoire . of a mission chu ch in New Yo k A very special feature of the even which had been ministered to by one ing ’s gathering this year was the of the members of the graduating “ r f class . S pecial seats were eserved or showing of a film, A Certain Noble ” this group in one of the transepts of man, by the Rev . S tewart P. Mac _ D D r the chapel that they might witness at Lennan , . . , fo mer pastor Of the close quarters the graduation of their First Presbyterian Church of Holly - student pastor. C r D wood, alifo nia . r. MacLennan is D E r. Robert . S peer President of now devoting his W hole time to the , B r Tr the oa d of ustees presided . The production of pictures representing , Commencement Address was deliv B iblical episodes or teachings . Hehas ered by the new President of David felt called to the mission of using the son College, the Rev . John R . great advances in the cinemato Cunningham , D . D . , who spoke in an r art r r g aphic to captu e the hea t and inspiring manner on the subject of r “ mind the Ame ican people by the Democracy and the Christian Min portrayal in technicolor of scenes and ” istry.
r r B of B The - sto ies f om the ook ooks . Fifty one students were awarded exhibition Of the picture made a deep the degree Of Bachelor of Theology, r on r Dr Mac imp ession those p esent . . and twenty the degree of Master of r n Lennan eceived many valuable sug Theology . Ten students , whose ames gestions and criticisms and above all , , , were read by the Rev . William a great deal of stimulus to go forward P r r Barrow ugh , S ec eta y r r with his ente p ise . r Of the Board O f Trustees , we e
awarded special fellowships or prizes . COM MENCEM ENT E "ERCI SES The names of these and of the new graduates appear elsewhere in the The one hundred and twenty- ninth Bulletin . session in the life of Princeton S emi r to on T M As usual an inspiring part of the na y came an end uesday, ay 1 T r n re r 3. he Commencement E xercises ce emo y was the music nde ed by were held in the chapel of the U niver the students of the Westminster Choir sit r y, with an unusually large con College , unde the leadership of the course O f people crowding the pews of distinguished President of the - Col
. r that Gothic pile One of the inte est lege , D r. John Finley Williamson . 28 THE PRINCETON S EMINAR Y B ULLETIN
DE REES F ELLOW SHIPS AN D PRIZ ES G ,
dward Crawf or W lia HE degree of Bachelor of Theol l ms E arry Camerom %V0 0 il111 o rr fol g gy was confe ed upon the Robert White Y oung lowing students who hold the degree The degree of Master of Theology of Bachelor Of Arts or its academic rr r in titu was confe ed upon the following equivalent , from an app oved s students whohold the degree of Bach tion , and who have completed the elor of Arts , or its academic equiva course Of study prescribed therefor in
lent, and the degree of Bachelor of this S eminary : T v heology, or its theological equi a Joel Eldon Anderson lent, from approved institutions , and Hugh Frederick Ash r who have completed the course of John Walter Bea dslee , III John Alexander Bellingham study prescribed therefor in this S em William Garver Borst inar Charles Edward Brubaker y. Jay Luman Bush Clifford Earle Chaffee Samuel Wilson Blizzard Robert Melbourne Christiansen Earle White Crawford Wilbur Raynor Closterhouse Marion Gerard G osselink Earl Eugene Cunningham Joseph Clyde Henry John Pallai Dany Albert Howard Hopper Charles Henry Davis Mark Lowell Koehler John Hutchinson Eastwood Gilbert John Kuyper ‘ Charles Raymond Ehrhardt Theodore Schaffer Liefeld Roger Payne Enloe Duncan Norwood N aylor Bruce Whitefield Evans Harold George N ydahl Hugh Bean Evans Robert N eill Peirce Philip Kyle Foster Christian Keyser Preus
Francis Henny Glazebrook , Jr. Richard Charles Smith Morton Graham Glise Robert Ross Smyrl Paul Renwick Graham Meredith Justin Sprunger Joseph Edward Grottenthaler Herbert Claude Tweedie Henry Disbrow Hartmann Victor Paul W ierwille William Musbach Hunter Harold Kendall Wright William Harvey Jenkins Tyuz o Y amada Paul Waldo Johnston Bung Pal Y un naslaus David S te Kain , III N orman Samuel Kindt R eginald Wilson McI nroy F ellowship s and Prizes wereawarded n M r Joh William eiste ll s as fo ow . John N elson Montgomery Paul Conrad Nicholson Howard Robertson Peters The Fellowship in New Testament or L r Ge ge ewis Rentschle ( Blbhcal Theology) William Dayton Roberts David Dean Robinson Roger Payne E nloe Edwin Pratt Rogers
Edwin Joseph Rose 0 Millard Richard Shaun The Fellowship I n Apologetics s mn 1 a Charles E dward Brubaker 13323; ggzggjelgg Carlton Joseph Sieber 3 rt 6 1 The First S cribner Prize in New Tes ff]? 21023?$2313?i Charles Thomas Theal tament Literature r r r Ralph P yo Waggone P3 111 R enW l G laham r Jr. Charles Smith Webste , THE PRI NCE TON S E MINAR Y B ULLETIN 29
T P h M he S econd S cribner rize T eRobert L . aitland Prize in New T E E John Hutchinson E astwood estament xegesis ( qual ) S amuel Hugh Moffett Irvin Wesley Batdorf TheHugh Davies Prize in Homiletics The John Finley McLaren Prize in John William Meister Biblical Theology George Hileman Yount The Benj amin S tanton Prize in Old The Archibald Alexander Hodge T m er r esta ent Lit atu e Prize in S ystematic Theology Roger Burnham Mcshane Arnold Bruce Come 30 THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y B ULLETIN
THE F O R W AR D M O VEMENT
HE S E O R B O D D NRY YM U R WN , . .
HE chief news of the yea r is the It is obvious that otherwise a single r er action of the General Assembly at semina y, unwilling p haps to face of r r S t. Louis , the climax of several years the possibility a me ge , might The of continuous effort on the part of the hold up action indefinitely . Council of Presbyterian Theological amount of this percentage in the S eminaries 1942- 1943 budget will be settled by “ r r 1. TheGeneral Assembly confirms the Gene al Council in Octobe , when of its r r the action Gene al Council , des it will hold a confe ence with the ignating November 9 as the day for S pecial Committee of the Council of Pr r T r offerings by the churches for the sup esbyte ian heological S emina ies . T Dr of s. port of theological seminaries , and ( his Committee is composed B r M and commends this cause to all our peo ai d , ackay, Kelso , Cotton ” B E rown . ple . O ur piscopalian friends or ) dered such a S unday for the first time F or the second successive year the a in their history on the last S unday in S eminary h s balanced its budget . It April of 1941 ; the presentation of the has been most encouraging to find r r in cause was made and an offering taken that , cont a y to expectations , the n “ ” come from gifts on the maintenance o Good S hepherd S unday . If re has r r ceipts at Princeton S eminary arepro account kept up ema kably well , for portionateto the receipts of the Gen in spite of the active campaign r re eral Theological S eminary of the capital funds . we e ceived this year for the maintenance E piscopal Church in New York , this collection should yield us the equiva account as contrasted with r r r lent of the income at present rates on last yea . One hund ed and th ee an endowment of at least churches helped the S eminary balance r see Themost important result of this ao its budget this yea ( list) , and r our many more already have the S emi tion , howeve , is that it will help - 2 The people to be interested in and in nary oh their 1941 194 budget . P formed about the theological seminar number of signed Friends of rince ies and the need for an adequate ton cards reported last year at this
time was 164 ; this year we have 19 6. ministry . r r The total number of alumni contrib 2. The General Assembly o de s utin in one or r to that each of our eleven seminaries , on g way anothe the
1 of S r 464. or before S eptember 15, 194 , shall needs the emina y is submit to the Office of the S tated The S eminary Choir program was Clerk of the General Assembly full continued throughout this past aca r i in proof that it has met all the requi e demic year. The progress here s in i ments of the General Council , and terestng . The first year we visited structs the General Council to include 10 churches , and the total receipts in in its 1942- 1943 budget such seminar the cash collections were the ies as have met the requirements, second year 61 new churches , with whether or notall eleven have done so. collections amounting to
32 THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
THE ALU MNI AS S OCIATION
THE OFFICERS F O R 1941- 1942
President: HERBER T BOOT H S MIT H ’09
’ Vice- President EO E AL OTT : G RG H. T B 23
’ S ecretary: FREDERICK S CHWEITZER 19
’ Treasur r e : C HARLES R . E RDM AN 9 1
THE E "ECUTIVE COUNCIL
’ Chairman : H B UGH . MCCRONE 98
Term E xpiring 1942 Term E xpiring 1943
’ ’ H B. O 98 D B UGH MCCR NE ROLAN . LUTZ 21 ’ M ’ W . . CLEAVE LAND 99 E . LANSING BENNETT 25
Term E xp iring 1944
R ’ ART HU N . BuTz 14 HARRY E DWIN U LRICH ’17
E x—Officio ’ N 1 ’ LEONARD V . BUSCHM A 8 JOHN A . M ACKAY 15 ’ ’ C HAR LES R . E RDM AN 9 1 PAUL MAR TIN 86 ’ H B B 9 E D ’ ER ERT OOT H S MIT H O WAR D H. ROBER TS 23 T B ’2 ’ G EO E H. AL OT 3 H RG T ENRY S . BROWN 00
LOCAL ALU MNI AS S OCIATIONS
I llinois
r — r L Chicago P esident The Rev . Wa d W . ong ,
D . D . r t— O P esiden The Rev. W . liver 1428 N orth Center Street Br P h. D ackett, . Stockton California , The Manse , Lake Forest r r — r Sec eta y The Rev . F ancis Shunk Illinois
D O W I I S D MD , I owa, 753 Santa Barbara Road r — P esident The Rev. William Miller Ber r keley, Califo nia 69 5 14 Street Place
Des Moines , Iowa
- — r . . W Wh “ Worm “ south Vice P es The Rev De itt ite 805 Taylor Street r — H r er B P esident The Rev. e b t ooth Des Moines , Iowa D ) Smith , . 744 South ée rrano Avenue L I reland os A ngeles , California — — W Br r r . Br r . a Sec eta y The Rev Raymond I . ahams P esident The Rev , J all ce uce r Laguna Beach The Manse , Pa kgate r r r California Templepat ick , CO . Ant im , I eland THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN 33
la - r — Mar nd . r O y Vice P es The Rev. Edwa d A . dell 477 r Uppe Mt. Avenue B r altimo e U r r N ew r ppe Montclai , Je sey — Br r t . . P esiden The Rev A own Cald r r — r Sec eta y The Rev . Geo ge J . Russell D D . well , 19 Ross Road 2221 E lsinor Avenue r Sca sdale , N ew Y ork B r r altimo e , Ma yland r rer— T easu The Rev . C . Ransom Com - - r . . r L . Vice P es The Rev Robe t Riddle r r fo t, J . 616 O ld R as ebur Home Road , p g 70 Maplewood Avenue B r r altimo e , Ma yland r — Maplewood, New Je sey Secretary The Rev . Robert M . Camp bell Randallstown N ew Y ork S ynod
Maryland — r W " P esident The Rev . illiam M . Mac Innes D elaware- M ar land y Endicott, N ew Y ork r r — L Sec eta y The Rev. uther M . Hol — r r . r . y P esident The Rev Willa d G Pu d , lister
DD . Stony Point, N ew Y ork 2108 Van Buren Street r Wilmington , Delawa e
- — F . Vice Pres . The Rev . William \
L Jr. ogan , Cleveland Berlin Maryland , Presidentr — . . . B r r r — W L The Rev C E ininge Sec eta y The Rev . illiam eishman 1836 Wilton Road L r ewes , Delawa e O Cleveland Heights , hio r r — R ev. Sec eta y The Robert C . Grady Miohigan 1431 Addison Road C — H rr leveland , O hio r t . W P esiden The Rev . Glen a is , Ph D . . 519 West Maple Avenue Pacific- N orthwest Birmingham , Michigan — r r r — Secretary The Rev. Carl E . Ki che , R ev L P esident The . Paul . Crooks
D D . w Lake ood , Washington 545 A r r r — lte Road Sec eta y The Rev. J . Arthur Steven i Detroit , M chigan son — M Conau N . c B Treasu rer The R ev. . U ethany Church he g y Tacoma , Washington 1004 Prospect Avenue
Iron Mountain , Michigan Pennsylvania
C r Minnesota ent al Pennsylvania
r — St . Paul and Minneapolis P esident The Rev . Robert M . Skinner — r . r . P esident The Rev Robe t S Axtell Pottsville , Pennsylvania Be r r r - r — thlehem P esbyte ian Chu ch Vice P es . The Rev. N orman Duns
Minneapolis , Minnesota more — m B Secretary The Rev . Willia J . ell , 826 N orth Liberty Street
DD . . Shamokin , Pennsylvania 1040 B r r — Plymouth uilding Sec eta y The Rev. Harry F ifield
Minneapolis , Minnesota First Presbyterian Church
Steelton , Pennsylvania — r r r . r Y N ew Jersey T easu e The Rev G . Aub ey oung r R . F . D . "uar yville Penns lvania r , y Southern Je sey d — B n Phila elphia r t . . L e P esiden The Rev E ansing r — H r P esident The Rev . owa d J . Bell , nett D D . r ' N ew r . Me chantville , Je sey Edge Hill Pennsylvania ,
- — - r . T Wef Vice P es he Rev . William F . er N ewY ork Witherspoon Building
N ew Y ork City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — r r — R ev L L ets h r r T r . . . o c e P esident he Rev . Ha old S . Rambo Sec eta y The A 207 E ast‘ 30th Street 98 Mercer Street Y r N J N ew Y ork , N . . P inceton , . 34“ THE PRIN CE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
r r r— R ev r T easu e The . Cha les V . Hass Texas ler — 3 B m r . r hin 0 E . alti ore Avenue P esident The Rev Go don Mac es r n a Media, Pennsylvania Co sica a , Tex s r Vice P es - o r . Sc ant n The R ev. M . Ewing Mc — r r r . P esident The Rev . Ab am G . Ku tz Phail 214 r e r No th Maple Av nue Goose C eek , Texas o — Kingst n , Pennsylvania r r Sec eta y The Rev . Carlton C . Allen r r — Sec eta y The Rev . Harry L . Somers Mesquite , Texas h Tunk annock , Pennsylvania r — Stewa d The Rev . James Aiken r r r— B r T easu e The Rev . G . Hale uche H r e eford , Texas Plymouth , Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania ashin to C r — Th H W g n D . . e . c , P esident Rev R . C . ut hison , r t— v B r B Br P esiden The R e . erna d . as Washington and Jefferson College kamp , DD . Washington , Pennsylvania 1 2 W 4 1 u S r N . - r — B W Montag e t eet, . Vice P es . The Rev . E . . elsh
D C. 1208 Vance Avenue Washington , . r r — r M Cum Sec eta y The Rev . Geo ge . Coraopolis , Pennsylvania r — W r Secreta y The Rev. James . Lau ie mings 1628 r S E 818 Hill Avenue T St eet , .
o D . C. Wilkin sburg, Pennsylvania Washingt n ,
CHU RCHE S THAT CONTRIBU TE D TO THE S E MINARY
" DU RING THE Y E AR 1940- 1941
( Apart from Choir Collections)
N ame Location N ame Location
To the Ca ital Account T i O I . p II . o the Ma ntenance Acc unt: N ame Location N ame Location
r r r . r r Fi st Chu ch Amble , Pa The P esbyte ian Church Abington , Pa .
r t r a C r rn . r r Y The P esby e i n hu ch A ot , Pa Second Chu ch Amste dam , N . . '
r r B r . r r Fi st Chu ch i mingham , Mich Fi st Chu ch Ardm ore, Pa .
r r Md . r r r Slate Ridge Chu ch Ca diff, Fi st Chu ch A lington , N .J .
t r . r r r r O r N . The P esbyte ian Chu ch Fo y Fo t , Pa livet Chu ch Atlantic City , J ..
r r r i . . The Presbyte ian Chu ch G eenw ch , N J First Church Aurora , Ill .
M r r r H rr r . r r a ket Squa e Chu ch a isbu g , Pa A lington Chu ch Baltimore , Md . r r H i r r Fi st Chu ch Keokuk , Iowa am lton Chu ch Baltimo e , Md . .
r r . The Presbyte ian Chu ch Kingston , Pa The Presbyterian Church Bristol , Pa
r L r . r The Community Chu ch a C escenta , Cal First Chu ch Britton , S . D .
L B . r r . Y . The Community Chu ch aguna each , Cal Cent al Church Buffalo , N .
M . r r N . First Church ansfield , Pa The P esbyte ian Church Collingswood, .J .
Mifilinsbur . First Church g , Pa First Church Cranbury, N . J ..
M . r First Church ilton , Pa W estminster Chu ch Dayton , 0 .
r M r N . . r r r r N . South Chu ch ontclai , J Fi st Memo ial Chu ch Dove , J . .
r . M , Grace Church ontgome y , Pa The Presbyterian Church Drexel Hill , Pa.
r . N . . Roseville Church ewa k , N J First Church East O range , N .J .
The Presbyterian Church N ewtown , Pa . Hope Memorial Church Elizabeth , N .J . .
r r r r . r r w N . . . The P esbyte ian Chu ch O angeville , Pa The Presbyterian Chu ch F enchto n , J
. n Arch Street Church Philadelphia , Pa Westside Church Germantow , Pa
r r r . add nfield .J . . Westminste Chu ch Sc anton , Pa First Church H o , N ’
r . N . J . . St . Ma y s Church Shiloh , Pa First Church Haddon Heights ,
r i r . rr r First Chu ch Sh ppensbu g, Pa Market Square Church Ha isbu g,
r r . First Church St asbu g, Pa First Church Hazleton , Pa a First Church Tioga , Pa . Derry Church Hershey , P . , P 25 churches The PresbyterianChurch Honey Brook , a.. THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
N ame Location N ame Location
n r r ner r d . r N War Memorial Chu ch Kensingto , M Fi st Chu ch Phillipsbu g, J . l W r r i r r r r 111. . Fi st Chu ch Lake Fo est, estminste Chu ch Phill psbu g , N J r L r r r First Church Lancaste , Pa . East ibe ty Chu ch Pittsbu gh , Pa .
r . r r r . Memorial Church Lancaste , Pa Fi st Chu ch Pittsbu gh , Pa r r First Church Lansdowne , Pa . Knoxville Chu ch Pittsbu gh , Pa .
r r . First Church Latrobe , Pa . Sixth Chu ch Pittsbu gh , Pa
r . r r Plainfield Fourth St eet Church Lebanon , Pa Fi st Chu ch , N J .
i . r r r . Second Church Lex ngton , Ky Fi st Chu ch P inceton , N J
r . r r First Church Llane ch, Pa Second Chu ch P inceton , N J . Level r rr First Church Mansfield , Pa . Chestnut Chu ch "ua yville , Pa .
N . . r r r Prospect Church Maplewood , J The P esbyte ian Chu ch Ridley Park , Pa . J Br r First Church Matawan , N . ick Chu ch Rochester, N .Y .
N .J . r r r r N . Fi st Chu ch Maywood , Fi st Chu ch Roselle , J
r r M Kees ort . r r r Fi st Chu ch c p , Pa The P esbyte ian Chu ch Rye , N .Y .
L w r McLean . ir r e insville Chu ch , Va F st Chu ch Salem , N .J . r r n r W r The P esbyte ia Chu ch icomico Chu ch Salisbury Md . W , i r . r r r Mechan csbu g, Pa estminste Chu ch Sc anton , Pa .
r r . r r Silver Spring Chu ch Mechanicsbu g, Pa Fi st Chu ch Shippensburg, Pa .
r r r M . r r The P esbyte ian Chu ch edia , Pa Fi st Chu ch Succasunna , N . J .
r r M r N J . r r Fi st Chu ch e chantville, Cent al Chu ch Summit , N .J .
r r N .J . B r r South Chu ch Montclai , ethany Chu ch T enton , N J .
r r M r N . Y . r r Fi st Chu ch ontgome y , Ewing Chu ch T enton , N . J
r r r r r . r r r The P esbyte ian Chu ch Na be th , Pa Fi st Chu ch T enton , N J .
r N r .J r r r Elizabeth Avenue Chu ch ewa k , N Fou th Chu ch T enton , N J .
r r N r N J . r r r Memo ial Chu ch ewa k , Pilg im Chu ch T enton , N .J
r N r N J . r r r r Roseville Chu ch ewa k , P ospect St eet Chu ch T enton , N J .
r r N ew Bru N J . r r r r Fi st Chu ch nswick , Calva y Chu ch Uppe Da by, Pa .
r r . r r Cent al Chu ch New Castle , Pa Fi st Chu ch Washington, N J .
r r N ew r . r r r Cent e Chu ch Pa k , Pa The P esbyte ian Chu ch Wayne, Pa .
r r N ew Y r N .Y . r r r Fou th Chu ch o k , Fi st Chu ch Waynesbu g, Pa .
r r . r r Fi st Chu ch Paoli , Pa Memo ial Chu ch Wenonah , N .J
r the M r N J . r r Chu ch of essiah Pate son , Fi st Chu ch Whitesboro , N .Y .
r . r Paxton Chu ch Paxtang, Pa Second Chu ch Wilkinsburg , Pa .
- r r r N . J r r r Fi st Chu ch Pe th Amboy , Covenant Cent al Chu ch Williamspo t, Pa .
r hi . r r r Calvin Chu ch P ladelphia, Pa Fi st and Cent al Chu ch Wilmington , Del .
r r . r r r Fou th Chu ch Philadelphia , Pa The P esbyte ian Chu ch Woodstown , N . J .
r f r r . r r F ank o d Chu ch Philadelphia, Pa Calva y Chu ch Wyncote , Pa .
i r ur . r r Glad ng Memo ial Ch ch Philadelphia , Pa Fi st Chu ch Y ork , Pa .
r . 103 r Ninth Chu ch Philadelphia , Pa chu ches 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First Church of O lney Philadelphia , Pa .
‘ G if s to Main enance Accoun hrou h A ril 30 if to Ca ial Acc un hr u h n t t t t g p ; g ts p t o t t o g J u e 30. 36 THE - PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
A AT O O F P O O B Warfi l . ed IN UGUR I N R FESS RS j amin , Dr. Piper began r 1 his theological career as a New Testa On Februa y 0 in Miller Chapel, e r ‘ r r on the occasion of a special mid - year m nt schola and late tu ned to the of S T f B r f Tr D teaching ystematic heology . meeting o the oa d o ustees , r. P r D While one Of the most versatile of William ark A mstrong, r. John E K iz n D H T theologians in his interests and . u e ga, and r. ugh homson Pr r r knowledge, ofesso Piper will Kerr, Jr. , we e inaugurated into new henceforth devote his major attention positions on the S eminary Faculty . to T w P New estament studies . Dr. Armstrong, hohad been rofes sor of New Testament Literature D r. J . Christy Wilson 1 since 9 03, became Graduate Profes T From now onwards Princeton will sor of New estament E xegesis . Dr. on one Kuizenga was transferred from the have its Faculty whose special r of to r function will be the supervision of the Chai Apologetics the Cha les ’ students field work . This position will Hodge Chair of S ystematic Theology . for be filled the next two years by Dr. D r. Kerr was formally installed as
. r . Dr Associate Professor of S ystematic J Ch isty Wilson . Wilson is a r T The r g aduate of the U niversity of Kansas heology . cha ge to the new pro and of Princeton Theological S emi fessors was delivered by the Rev .
nary . Hehas had a very distinguished S tuart Nye Hutchison , D . D . , pastor r r r r of the E ast Liberty Presbyterian ca ee as a missiona y in I an , and P r Hi r has also held pastorates in this coun Church , ittsbu gh . s inspi ing “ tr . He o an address entitled Preaching in An y was ab ut to be elected to ” important pastorate in Pennsylvania Age of Confusion , is printed in this B when his services were secured by the number of the ULLETIN . S eminary as S upervisor of Field r D ’ Wo k . It will be r. Wilson s func N E W FACULTY APPOINT MENTS tion to cultivate and maintain close D r tt Pi r r . O o A . per contacts with p esbyte ies and churches within a hundred miles of Reference has been made elsewhere Princeton ; tosecure positions for stu to the election of new members to the dents where they may render service Faculty . After four years of out r r S r r r r du ing thei emina y cou se ; and to standing service tothe S emina y, fi st exercise a helpful supervision over as Guest Professor of S ystematic r T r r the wo k in which students engage . heology, and the eafte as Guest In the appointment of Dr. Wilson the Professor of New Testament Litera S n r is r r D P r to emi a y b eaking g ound in a ture , r. Otto A . ipe was elected r r of new di ection which we hope will the Helen H . P. Manson Chai New prove fruitful . Testament Literature , at the meeting Ma His O f the Board O f Trustees in y. L D r. Lefferts A . oetscher election was subsequently confirmed D er t In the appointment of r. Lefferts by the Gen al Assembly at S . Louis . L P r . oetscher as r r r In the election of Professor ipe , A Inst ucto in Chu ch Princeton S eminary has been able to History the S eminary secures the ser secure the services of one of the out vices of another of its own distin uishe r r L h standing theologians and Biblical g d g aduates . D . oetsc er, r of r D B schola s ou time . Like r. en from the timeof his graduation from THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN 37
S r 1928 the emina y in , has made At the Fiftieth Anniversary of the r H r e of Chu ch isto y his sp cial study, and founding S tanford U niversity, ’ will obtain his Doctor s degree in that which was celebrated from June 15 r U er of P 1 P subject f om the niv sity enn to 9 , resident Mackay preached the r r sylvania in the nea futu e . U ntil his Baccalaureate S ermon and was oneof resignation last spring he was pastor a group of twenty- two who were of the Rhawnhurst Presbyterian elected honorary fellows of the U ni r P He Chu ch, hiladelphia . has been versity contracted for a two - year period by ’ the Board of Trustees to be the assist THE S TUDENTS LECTURESHIP
r Dr. ant to his distinguished fathe , O N MISSIONS r F ederick W . Loetscher. In view of TheS tudents ’ Lectures on Missions the reorganization of the curriculum
were delivered by John R . Mott , D . D . , in Church History and the widening M LL . D . , of the International ission of its scope , the new Instructor will n “ r M ar Council , o Ch istian issions have opportunity for both lecturing y D D in Time of War E mory Ross , . . , and seminar work . General S ecretary of the Foreign M is r of r r Teaching F ellows sions Confe ence No th Ame ica , “ ” on Africa : Prey and Promise ; Two r re distinguished g aduates of D P Ph. . ro Henry Pitney Van Dusen , , are cent years who about to complete T fessor of Theology, U nion heological r for r of T “ thei studies the Docto heol r n T S eminary, New Yo k , o A heolog ogy degree have been elected teaching ’ ian s Appraisal of the Foreign Mis T are fellows of the S eminary . hese ” sionary Movement ; William S tanley M of 1940 Mr . . Donald Davies , class , LittD E S r Rycroft, . . , xecutive ec e
M E E T Jr. of and r. lwyn . ilden , , class tary of the Committee on Cooperation Mr r “ 1939 . . Davies , who is a g aduate Th in Latin America , on e Religious one ” of Wheaton College , will teach of S ituation in the Other America ; H r r . the elementary cou ses in eb ew P D Conrad Hoffman , h. Assistant r of Har Mr. Tilden who is a g aduate , S ecretary of the Board of National vard U niversity will render assist , r of E Missions , in cha ge Jewish van of T . ance in the field New estament n “ The r r gelizatio , on Ch istian Chu ch ” and the Jewish People . ACADEMIC HONORS F O R FACULTY ME BER M S LECTURES BY PROFESSOR JOHN BAILLIE Mr. David Hugh Jones , of the n of Westminster Choir College Faculty, One of the outsta ding events who has for several years been a the academic year 1940- 41 was the teacher of music in the S eminary and series of three lectures delivered by r the leader of the S eminary Choir, was Professor John Baillie of the U nive r r Dr B hono ed by Washington and Jeffe son sity of E dinburgh . . aillie , who is College at its Commencement in June one of the outstanding theologians in
r f M - with the deg ee o Doctor of usic . the E nglish speaking world , came to Dr e . Jones , besides being a distin America on the invitation of th ui g shed musician , is the composer of Western S ection of the Presbyterian r r a la ge numbe of anthems . Alliance . After attending the meet P E E 38 THE . RINC TON S MINAR Y BU LLE TIN
P r ings of the Alliance at Baltimore , Pro rofessor Geo ge Rowley, of the fessor Baillie spent about a week in Department of Art and Archaeology, r P r Princeton . Du ing that time he de rinceton U niversity . Illust ated lec “ A livered three lectures in the S eminary ture on Chinese rt. “ r Dr h r r r on the subject Ch istianity Faces the . Donald W eele , Di ecto of ” M Pr T Intellectuals of the odern World . Public S peaking, inceton heologi ’ r r “ Cr The topics of the individual lectu es cal S emina y, Dickens h istmas ” “ The P r were : Belief and U nbelief : a t Carol . ” ’ “ Th E n r ing of the Ways ; e S oul s Professor Ab aham S . E . Yahuda “ Th counter With God e Gospel ( two addresses) , The Joseph S tory ” ” “ r S tory and Modern Thought . Ra ely and the Court of Pharoah and The have S eminary lectures been better S oj ourn of Israel in E gypt and the B r of D r. attended than we e those ail E xodus .
r r Pr r r D . D . lie , a testimony to thei obust evan ofesso Adolph Kelle , , r r on gelical quality and the imp essive de LL . D . , of Geneva , S witze land, r “ ar H livery of the lecture . What the W as Done to the ” On one evening during his stay in Churches in E urope . Pr r B P Princeton ofesso aillie spoke in rofessor Kenneth S . Latourette , the lounge of Fuld Hall , at the Insti Professor of Missions and O riental r “ Th tute for Advanced S tudy, to a g oup History, Yale U niversity, on e of Princetonians interested in hearing Local Minister and the World Tur r the views Of the distinguished visito moi]. E r E o The F ar on the war in u ope . Dr. S herwood ddy n
E astern Conflict : Japan , China and ” AN D R VISIT ING PREACHERS LECTU ERS S oviet Russia .
On invitation of the Faculty, the DAY O F PRAY ER following preached in Miller Chapel during the year 1940- 41 : A special Day of Prayer was ob r on r r 11th r D . D . se ved Feb ua y the with TheRev . Peter Ma shall , , pas
H r E . r . tor O f the New York Avenue Presby add esses by the Rev a old r of Br Pr r Nicely, pasto the ick esbyte terian Church , Washington , D . C . r r ian Church, Rocheste , New Yo k , on The Rev . William Lindsay Young, “ Th Tr Tr O ur P of P r Mod e ial and the iumph of D . D r , esident a k College “ ” Faith and It Is a High Calling . erator of the General Assembly . The day culminated with a Commun B D . D . The Rev . Benj amin J . ush, , ion S ervice conducted by Dr. Kui pastor of the Westminster Presbyter zenga and an address by the Rev . r M . ian Church , Det oit, ichigan D r D . Francis S hunk Downs , . , pasto Addresses were delivered before of the First Presbyterian Church of the student body by :
B r r . rr Profes e keley, Califo nia D r. Hen ry No is Russell , Pr U r sor of Astronomy , inceton nive N THE “ ” PRINCETON S EMINARY A D n . sity, o S cience and Religion 153R D GENERAL ASSEMBLY r r The Rev . Alexande S tacey, pasto r of the Congregational Church , Cen Themost impo tant thing that took “ LouiS ' Assembl S O on TO S t. y, terbrook, Connecticut, Russia place at the ” far as Princeton S eminary is con day .
40 THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
t demic work completed . In order obe elected atthe Assembly of the S outh admitted to matriculation and enroll ern Church meeting at Montreat on n n r M a 22 r me t as a S tude t in the S emina y, y , g aduated from this S emin
’ for w ar 1 Th the applicant admission , hose y in 900. e Moderator of the ha e a rov d must P application s be n pp e , S outhern resbyterian Church for
to of S col 1939 - 40 Dr r r . E d r M p esent the Dean tudents a the yea , wa d ack , wa lege diploma , or other evidence of the s also a graduate of Princeton r degree received and the year when S emina y, a member of the class of 1889 given . . A student coming from another w The H r r B S eminary must file ith his Applica Rev . e be t ooth S mith , tion for Admission blank a letter of a member for 10 years of the Perma dismissal from such S eminary to , nent Judicial Commission of the Pres gether with a full Official statement of byterian Church in the U nited S tates r r the cou ses al eady completed . of Am erica has been nearly 25 years The opening address of the S emi , pastor of Immanuel Presbyterian nary year will be given in Miller L H wa r Church of os Angeles . e s bo n 2 Chapel on Wednesday, S eptember 4, t M r ’ in S . Louis County, issou i , August at O clock , and lectures and re on of r 7, 1883. He is e fou successive citations will begin the same day . generations of Presbyterian minis r His r was D r NOTICE te s . fathe the Rev . . 12 Joseph Addison S mith , pastor for The attention of the Alumni is years in Baltimore , and his grand called to the appointment of Dr. J . father was the Rev . William Addison t f Chris y Wilson as Director o Field T S mith , a home missionary in exas . W r He r of o k . will have cha ge the i Hi n H r r B Jr. s s so , e be t ooth S mith , , placement and supervision Of students also a Presbyterian pastor and a sec in outside work while they are in the ond son James Comfort S mith , be n , S eminary . Churches wishi g student gins his theological course this Fall , n pastors , student assista ts , S unday
S chool teachers , etc . Should communi His education was obtained first in Dr cate with . Wilson . the public schools of Baltimore , next All r supply p eaching calls , the r at S mith Academy , S t. Louis , whe e placement of S eniors in permanent he won both Latin and Greek medals , charges and the relocating of Alumni t then in Washington U niversity, S . n of will still be ha dled by the Dean w r r- r Louis , he e he took the fou yea rt S tudents , Dr. E dward H. Robe s . course in three years , graduating in
19 05 . Two O E ATO M D R RS He began public speaking as a boy It is pleasant tocall attention tothe of 12 and preached frequently during fact that not only is the new Moder his college course and almost every r P S r r r ato of the resbyterian Church , unday du ing his th ee yea s at S r an alumnus of Princeton S em Princeton Theological emina y,
- Hi r r inar M Pr 19 06 09 . s y, but the oderator of the es fi st pasto ate was the i a r Pr t r r of R o byterian Church , U S , s lso an No th esby e ian Chu ch H r r r . e alumnus of this institution. The Rev . cheste , New Yo k began wo k wh wa 19 12 as r of S Pr Charles E . Diehl , D . D . , o s in pasto the econd es THE PRINCE TON S E MI NAR Y BU LLE TIN 41
T Ten 1900 r . Pr byterian Church of Knoxville , ; g ad inceton heological r 1900 D D S rn nessee; and in 19 16 of Immanuel S emina y, ; outhweste
L 19 10 . Church, os Angeles , now the second Presbyterian U niversity, ; LL D Pr r r r 2 . la gest esbyte ian Chu ch in the Davidson College , 1 9 6 ; m
U nited S tates . f r Mis Katherine I reys, o G eenville, r 25 r Du ing his yea s at Immanuel , i 24 190 1 son sissipp , March , 9 ; , r r r the membe ship has inc eased f om P r n Charles I reys. Ordained resbyte ia to the downtown property ministry 19 00 ; pastor Crescent has been sold for and a new , K 1 S prings and Independence , y. , 900 cathedral church erected . M - 05 r . 1905 07 r Immanuel is one of the largest con ; G eenville , iss , Fi st Pr r r r tributors to benevolences in the Pres esbyte ian Chu ch , Cla ksville ,
ri n - P byte a Church . Its staff has been Tenn 1907 17 ; resident of S outh re r inc ased until it has th ee assistant western since July, 19 17 ; member r ’ ministe s , three young people s work board of directors S outhwestern , ers r r r , fou sec eta ies , a church hostess , Louisville Theological S eminary, As two organists and four choirs total , sociation of American Colleges ; Trus ing 160 members . r D tee of the Gene al Assembly of the r. S mith is the author of three “ ” “ P Th E resbyterian Church in the U S . and books, e New arth, S cience “ Pr r . Pr esbyte ian Foundation , Inc ; Vice and ayer, and Beyond the S un ” Pr r set . In 19 13 he married Jean Com esident Of the Association of Ame r f e 1941 S r r - Tr fo t Ragsdale o Knoxville, Tennessee , ican Coll ges , ; ec eta y eas urer S r U r r who died in 1938. They have four outhe n nive sity Confe
1 4 r r Pan- Pr r sons . In 9 0 he was married to Dr. ence ; S ec eta y esbyte ian r M r r Kathe ine a ga et Close . College U nion ; member E xecutive Dr S . mith has attended many Gen Committee National Conference of eral Assemblies and has successfully Church- Related Colleges and Coun r r r He nominated th ee Mode ato s . him cil of Church Boards of E ducation ; for r r self was defeated the mode ato Moderator of the S ynod of Tennes 1934 ship in , and was not again a M r r r see, 1936 ; ode ato of the Gene al commissioner till 1941 in which year , Assembly of the Presbyterian Church his Presbytery of Los Angeles sug Ma 1 41- 1942 in the U S , y 9 May ; gested his name to the church at large member of Memphis Family Welfare as its candidate for Moderator of the Agency ; member Omicron Delta General Assembly. r M Kappa ; Democ at, ason r r S hriner) Clubs : Rota y, U nive sity, THE R E V. CHARLES E DWARD DI EHL The E The E ’ gyptians , xecutives Club , ( F rom Whos Whoin America) N Y The N ewcomer S ociety, . . S outh
C r r . r r le gyman , educato ; b Cha les ern S ociety, City ( New Yo k ) , the T Va Ma 1 5 Al 18 8 . r own , W . . , y , 7 ; s U niversity Club of N . Y W iter of r r H : be t and Ch istiana (Nolte ) Diehl ; Monographs and Reviews . ome
A. B. Johns Hopkins U niversity, M , S outhwestern Campus , emphis ,
1 M . A Pr r 89 6 . , inceton U nive sity, ; Tenn . 42 THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
ALU MNI NO TES
1880 1908
The . r Z LL . D . D . . . . i Rev And ew C enos , , D , The Rev Dav d L . McBride has accepted r r was ecently hono ed upon the completion a call to the First United Presbyterian “ of sixty years as an ordained minister and r r a , Chu ch of Ceda R pids Iowa . ’ , of fifty years service to the Presbyterian 1909 Seminary of Chicago .
The Rev . Jesse Halsey , D . D has been elected to the Chair of Pastoral Theology The . . k D . D . of L r Rev John S How , , a go , in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary r r r f r r , Ind . , has been hono ably eti ed a te mo e i Ch cago . r than fifty yea s in the ministry . 1910 1890
. Le D D The Rev James ishman , . . has been T Barackman , he . . e Rev . S P has b come made Associate Minister of the Pasadena pastor emeritus of the United Presbyterian r Chu ch , Calif . w Y r Church at West N e o k , N . J . The Rev . Ralph A . Waggoner became r The Rev . John H . Thompson obse ved his Executive Secretary of the Synod Of Mis fif tieth year as pastor of the Good Will r sou i on April 1.
r N Y Ma 11. Church , Montgome y , . . , on y 1913 1895 The Rev . Luther M . Bicknell has accepted D c . D . The Rev . William Main S hall , , will to O a call the livet Church , Wilmington , celebrate his 25th anniversary as Presbyter Del . i r ian Chaplain at the Ph ladelphia Gene al H rr The Rev . Jesse e mann , Ph. D recently r 1. Hospital , Philadelphia , Pa. , on O ctobe celebrated with his congregation the 125th 1898 anniversary of the founding of the Second r r r e i P esbyte ian Chu ch L x ngton , Ky . Th i D . D . r , e Rev . Dan el Russell , , ecently
- r r r r completed twenty five years as pastor of the The Rev . F ede ick C . Maie is now se v r ing the First Presbyterian Church of Blairs r r Y . Rutge s Chu ch , New o k City N town , . J . 1899 r r 1914 The Rev . Albe t Dale Gantz celeb ated the i r r r r w thirtieth ann ve sa y of his pasto ate at the The Rev . Allan H. B o n has become r N w Y r W illiam sbridg e Chu ch , e o k City, at Senior Chaplain at Camp Blanding , Fla . a special service on March 23. 1915 r rr D . D . The Rev. Ma shall Ha ington , , has ’ to r r B - R e asked be eleased f om the aptist The Rev . Thomas B. R ufl has been in
r r at N . J . fo med Chu ch Holmdel , , and will stalled pastor of Conley Memorial Church
his r N J . r make home in P inceton , and Landis Chapel , Concord Presbyte y,
r r r U . S . 1900 P esbyte ian Chu ch , v r r The R e . Hansen Be gen has been g anted The Rev . Alfred Erickson , of Campbells r r r r r a leave of absence f om the Fi st P esby ville , Ky. , eceived the degree of Docto of
r r r . to r i r r i te ian Chu ch , Eau Clai e , Wis , se ve as Divin ty f om Cent e College , Danv lle , chaplain in the United States Army . 2. Ky. , on June 1904 1917
T r r McI n ir D . t e D . he Rev . Cha les Cu tis , , r r r The Rev . Geo ge A . Ave y, pasto of now r W i is National P ison Chaplain , ash ng Pa r Hope Church , Philadelphia , . , ecently ton . . , D C celebrated with his congregation the fiftieth 1906 anniversar y of the organization of the — . . Br k D . D . r r r The Rev Rockwell S an , , Pasto church , and the twenty fou th yea of the r of r r r Eme itus the P esbyte ian Chu ch of present pastorate .
N .J . rv e Summit , , is se ing as stat d supply of r Kil now r n The Rev . Geo ge J . gus is se vi g
r r r .J the Fi st Chu ch , Newa k , N r Leroy Church , Evans Mills , and Cong ega
rr D . D . re The Rev . Robert Hugh Mo is , , i Y . tional Church , Philadelph a , N . cently celebrated the twentieth anniversary h The Rev. EarnestE . Eells is now c aplain of his pastorate in the Presbyterian Church M . of the 26th Infantry, Fort Devens , ass of Haddonfield, N J . 1907 [ 1918 ] L r i The Rev . Stacy . Robe ts , D . D . , is now The Rev . Roy Lee Dav s has become as t i ac ing pastor of Beaver College, Jenk n sistant pastor in charge of evangelism at town , Pa . Immanuel Church , Los Angeles , Calif . THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN 43
1919 1927
The Rev . John L . Gehman is now stated The Rev . Valentine S . Alison has accepted supply at the First Presbyterian Church , r r r a call to the la ge pa ish at Chateaugay , r Pa sons , Kans . N .Y . r The Rev . Edward S . Hend ickson has be T . r he Rev J . Ha old Gwynne , pastor of come pastor of the First Presbyterian r r r r the P esbyte ian Chu ch in Martins Fer y , Church , Lorain , O hio . r Ohio , has ecently celebrated with his con 1920 re ation r g g the centennial of that chu ch .
. L . D . D . . . r The Rev James Chestnut , , began The Rev M H . Hostette , pastor of the to r B r Pa. r r r r r se ve ellevue Chu ch, , on Feb ua y Deep Run P esbyte ian Chu ch , Doylestown ,
Pa. r 16. , ecently celebrated with his congrega 1921 i 215th r r t on the annive sa y of that church .
The Rev . C . H . Hook is now Chaplain at 1928 the Air Cor B ps asic Flying School , San r The Rev . Cha les Granville Hamilton is A ngelo , Tex . serving as army chaplain with Mississippi T . . ir a he Rev Paul R K ts has been p r t oops at Camp Blanding Fla . pointed a Sabbath School missionary under , The Rev . Daniel E . Kerr has accepted a B r the oa d of N ational Missions , and will call to the First Presbyterian Church of reside in Miles City, Mont. Lincoln , Ill . 1922 The Rev . William F . Kuykendall is serv r r The Rev . Walte A . G oves is now teach r i ing A mijo Commun ty Church , East Albu ing in Centre College , Danville , Ky . r que que , N . Mex .
1923 . r The Rev E ic E . Paulson is now serving
. r . r n r r L The Rev Ha old E Davis began se vi g as an a my chaplain at Fo t eavenworth . r r er r the Fi st P esbyt ian Chu ch, Washington , r 1929 N .J . , on Janua y 1.
r r . . The Rev . Cha les E . G aff, pastor of the The Rev Philip H Austin began serving W r r r r Pa. r Second P esbyte ian Chu ch of Cheste , , est Hope Chu ch , Philadelphia , Pa. , on r 22 recently celebrated with his congregation Janua y .
- r R ev. . P L fifth r r h. D the seventy annive sa y of that chu ch . The Kenneth S Gapp , . , ibrar
. L . re r The Rev ucas T K bs has accepted a ian of the Semina y , and Miss Anne C . P . call to the First Presbyterian Church of Bowman were married in the A lexander r r r r Spa ta , Ill . Chapel of the Fi st P esbyte ian Church , N ew Y r 1 The Rev . Elvin H . Shoffstall is serving as o k City , on June 6.
r a . . n r A my Chapl in at Fort Eustis , Va . The Rev W Way e G ay is now Chap r Y eaworth now r of 118th r 3oth The Rev . I vin S . is pasto lain the Infant y , Division ,
r a C. of Bethany Temple Church , Philadelphia , at Fo t J ckson , S r Pa . The Rev . Geo ge S . Maxwell has been r L 1925 . installed pasto of the Mt ebanon Church , r r Pittsbu gh , Pa . The Rev . J . Ha ry Cotton , D . D . , was r r inaugurated as President of the Presbyter The Rev . F ede ic G . St. Denis is now r pasto of the Mount Pleasant Church , Van ian Theological Seminary, Chicago , on April
r B. C. couve , 22. 1930 The R ev. Walter A . Dodds began his pas torate r r Y . . now at Fi st Chu ch , Ithaca , N . . , on The Rev Joseph C Dickson is serv 1 r r r May . ing the Uppe Montclai Chu ch , N J .
r r r . . rr r The Rev . Geo ge F . Ke chne , Jr. , is now The Rev W Glen Ha is , pasto of the r r r r r r r r B r i pasto of Sa ah Hea n Memo ial Church , Fi st P esbyte ian Chu ch of i m ngham ,
. r r Erie , Pa . Mich , eceived the deg ee of Doctor of 1926 Philosophy from the Graduate School of r r b r n r of Penn l The Rev . Law ence B. Gilmo e has e A ts and Scie ces , Unive sity sy
r r 11. come pastor of Grace Chu ch , White Ho se , vania , on June
‘
. r r Trenton , N .J . The Rev John K . Highbe ge began M ll rv r W r The Rev . William A . cCa has accepted se ing the P ompton and ayma t P r a. N 1 a call to the Chair of Bible and Religion in Chu ches , , on ovember .
r . M rr Hastings College , Hastings , N ebr. , and will The Rev . Clai A o ow has accepted r r to r r r r begin his wo k in Septembe . a call the Calva y P esbyte ian Chu ch ,
L B . The Rev. John A . Orange is now serving ong each , Calif
- r . r r co r Philip Chu ch , S . Dak . The Rev . W She man Skinne , pasto r r r r r The Rev. And ew G . Solla , pasto of the of the Fi st Chu ch of Ge mantown , Phil
r Pa. r r r Chu ch of O ur Saviour, Bristol , Pa. , has adelphia , , eceived the deg ee of Docto become a chaplain in the N avy . of Divinity from Temple University on n 12. The Rev. Ernest vanden Bosch is now Ju e S rvin Wi r e , The Rev . Merlin F . U sner is now serving e g ssinoming Chu ch, Philad lphia i. B ] r r . 3 ethe Chu ch, N ew O leans , La 44 THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
1931 . W The Rev illiam V. Longbrake became r rr he . . . r r r r P T Rev W W Da sie has esigned the pasto of De y Chu ch, He shey, a. , on r r 1 pastorate of the S an Pedro Presbyterian Feb ua y 6.
. . S alchl r . r r i Chu ch, Calif , to unde take fu ther study. The Rev Raymond J has accepted to r r r The Rev . G . Scott Porter is now serving a call the Thi d P esbyte ian Church of r r r . the Westlawn P esbyte ian Church , Sioux Ta entum , Pa
. W . r City, Iowa . The Rev Russell A inge t is now serv I n r r r r The Rev . William F . Rogan has become g the Fi st P esbyte ian Chu ch of Mem
r W r r r p , . pasto of estminste P esbyte ian Church, his Tex 1936 Nacogdoches , Tex .
The Rev . W . Clarence Thompson was in The Rev . David L . Coddington is now a r of M r r r stalled pasto the ontou s P esbyte ian chaplain in the United States Arm at Pa y r . r 12. Chu ch , , on Decembe r Br Fo t agg, N . C.
W . r The Rev . Wyeth Willa d has accepted r The Rev . F ank F . Jones , Jr. , is serving to r r a call the Fede ated Chu ch at Kingston , N orthminster r l the Chu ch, A buquerque , Mass . Mex N . . 1932 The Rev. Jay W . Kaufman is chaplain of f r . . M c ant y , Eighth Division , Fort Jackson The Rev Eugene H c ahan began in , serving Hannibal Church and Sterling a .
. r . W r Community Church , Sterling Station , N .J . , The Rev F ank P illiams began se v i N on December 1. ing as a chaplain in the Un ted States avy
r r r r 1. The Rev . Ge ald Ramake is now se ving on Ma ch 1937 as a chaplain in the United States Army .
r L . The Rev . F ank Tiffany is a chaplain r The Rev . Robe t J . Beyer has become in i r the Un ted States A my, stationed at r pasto of the Chillisquaque Church , Potts
r Lew W . Fo t is , ash r M r r r g ove , and oo esbu g Chu ches , Pa .
. r 1933 The Rev Ha old S . Faust has accepted a to i r call the Un on Tabe nacle Church, Phila The Rev . Harold Dewey Hayward re delphia, Pa . ceived r af r the deg ee Docto of Theology r The Rev . A . Go don Karnell is now as r B r N ew Y r f om the iblical Semina y in o k on sistant r r pasto at the P esbyterian Church, May 26. tfi l W es e d , N J .
r N . r The Rev . E nest Feind , pasto of the r The Rev . Spence B. Smith has accepted a r r t r r Fi st P esby e ian Chu ch , Kensington , call to the Presbyterian Church at Camp
i Pa. r Ph ladelphia , , celeb ated with his con Hill , Pa . gregation the 125th anniversary of the Sun 1938 r 1 day School f om March 8 to 25 . r The Rev . Earl L . F itz began to serve The Rev . Robert W . Jones began as stated W est Mantoloking Church , Adamston , N .J supply of the First Presbyterian Church, r on Ap il 1. rr . 1 . Ha iman , Tex , on June 1939 1934 The Rev. Alexander Christie will begin r MacI nnes The Rev . Geo ge A . is now pas his work this summer in the Philippine tor of the Third Avenue Presbyterian Islands nuder the Presbyterian Board of
r Corsicanna . Chu ch , , Tex Foreign Missions .
. r . B r r The Rev Cha les W ates is now pasto The Rev . Paul H . Me kle is now serving r of the Weirsdale and Candler Chu ches , Fla . r H r r the chu ches at iggins , P ices C eek , and
. r r . r r C The Rev F ede ick E Ch istian is se v Vixen , N . . r r W r n ing Covenant Cent al Chu ch , illiamspo t , The Rev . Stanly S . N ewcomb has bee Pa . elected Professor of Speech and Drama at
r W . The Rev . W . Donald Harris was installed Whitwo th College , Spokane, ash
r r . pasto of the chu ch at Jacksonville , Tex , 1940 on January 27. L O r r now The Rev . David . ste g en is pas The Rev. Frank L . P . Donaldson is now t r r n r r r r or of the Fi st Luthe a Chu ch , East pasto of the Glenmo e Avenue Chu ch ,
r N . Br .Y O ange , J ooklyn , N .
1935 The Rev. James L . Ewalt was installed r B pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Lin The Rev . C . He man ailey has become Ma 2 N . J . . pastor of the Sterry Memorial Church at den , , on y r a The Rev . Ellis Lee G aves has been p Roswell , Idaho . B rv r pointed by the Board of Foreign Missions The Rev . M . G . ell is se ing the chu ch to service in Brazil . at Schaller, Iowa . H nr The Rev . Charles Donald Close began The Rev . Clyde e y is now assistant r ir r of s r serving the First Presbyterian Church of pasto in the F st Chu ch Pitt bu gh,
r 1. . Hiawatha , Kan . , on Februa y Pa THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN 45
W The . . r r r Rev illiam E Eve hea t began to The Rev . Howard Wesley O u sler began r Br Mettairie r r n ll se ve uen Chu ch and Jeffe son serving the Pe ningtonvi e Church , Atglen ,
r N ew O r L . , Community Chu ch, leans , a on Pa. , on April 15 . May 1. The Rev . Richard C . Smith became assist The Rev . Robert R . Ferguson became r ant director O f the Morgantown Service pasto of Mt. Pisgah Church, Roslyn ; Cle
r M r W . Va. 15 . Elum and South Cle Elum Churches , Wash . , P oject , o gantown , , on May
on April 1.
BO O K R EVI EW S
r r r A PREFACE T O CHRISTIAN THE O L hunge s and thi sts afte righteousness .
o w rk E E ERRMANN . b M ka e . O G Y hn A. ac N Y o , y J y, J SS H
The M il Com an 19 1 . 18 7. L . acm lan p y, 4 , pp exington , Ky r Dr. F ancis Landey Patton once told his B B B class that if a man had something to say PREACHIN G FRO M THE I LE . y e 'r Andr w Watte son Blackwood . Abingdon and knew how to say it, it was worth going o e r r s r Ck sbu y P es . ac oss the ocean to hear him . President Patton would have relished this book by his By following the practical suggestions of r r r r r successor. Eve y page is packed with solid this book , no p eache need eve again fea r r substance . The clear and cogent style is that the wellsp ing of his inspi ation will go vibrant with the tempo and earnestness of dry or even that he will become monotonous ’ r T re r . F or pilg ims feet. he P face to Christian in the selection of his se mon subjects
Theolo not Dr. B for gy is a polemical disquisition . in this book lackwood opens up us O n r r of r rr the cont a y, it is a graphic, personal a gateway out the deep uts and na ow disclosure by a wayfarer with a deep con lanes of our thinking into the limitless fields “ ’ r for his own r r . ce n life , the life of mankind , and the infinite iches of God s Wo d With ” are r and the life of the cosmos . This lyrical insight and skill we given a p actical how B our note , with no undue intrusion of the per technique of to use the ible as
r r r . are sonal , brings a forthright freshness to the g eatest sou ce of inspi ation We profound elements in theology that have shown how it may be used for our own r r r for unive sal validity . spi itual welfa e and the upbuilding of
our r . The chapter headings whet both clerical the churches committed to ca e
o r Dr. B and lay appetites : The M od ern R ad to E m In the opening chapte , lackwood maus Th Balco out r ; e ny and the R oad ; "uest points , with nume ous examples , that and E nc unter i i r to o , The D vne D rama; Truth f om the days of the apostles down these is n O rd er to oodness I a of r N iemoller i G ; nd My Brother; days Ma tin , the outstanding The Church and th ecul r r r r r B e, S a O der. p eache s of the wo ld have made the ible
r r . The Balcony and the R oad I s a unit in its the basis of thei p eaching r r B rm st uctu e and a gem in its own right . It iblical se ons need not follow any one r r r r r r should be p inted sepa ately for wider dis patte n . The e are many va ieties . The e tri ution “ b . The balcony is the symbol of may be biographical sermons or perhaps a r the pe fect spectator, for whom life and the series of such sermons , in which the r are r unive se pe manent objects of study and preacher deals with a variety of types . B contemplation . y the Road I mean the These sermons may be made intensely prac r r r Of place whe e life is tensely lived , whe e tical inasmuch as the human t aits the thought has its birth in conflict and con O ld Testament and New Testament heroes r r ar r ce n , whe e choices e made and decisions are perpetually with us . Who in mode n ” are rr . n d ca ied out In the opinio of the au life has not seen Jacob , who cheate his thor the Balcony view has been too domi brother out Of his inheritance ? And who nant in theological thinking. Primarily has not wondered how G od could choose theology must issue from life as a going such an one as His personal representative ? “ ” r . r r conce n As they went they we e cleansed . Who does not today thrill at the leade ship r r “ r In this chapte the autho also pays a of men like Joseph , the P actical Ideal r r to r r r ” ? B out wo thy t ibute So en Kie kegaa d , whose ist Dr. lackwood gives us a model r r r i spi it pe vades eve y one of the 183 pages line for such a biographical sermon . Th s in the book . one about Apollos was preached to a church Pre ce m r k n f r r As befits a fa , the volu e is b ief, which was loo il g o a new ministe . “ but nothing essential to Christian life The subject was : A Minister Marked for r 1 r and doct ine is evaded . All the cherished Distinction . . He is eloquent but accu ate . r ar r r t uths of the Gospel e fi mly gi ded , but , 2. He is cultured but ardent . 3. He is dog r the are what is mo e to point , they made matic but docile . 4. He is evangelistic but for r i r available eve y genu ne pil g im who educational . 46 THE - PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
’ The chapter on “ The Preaching Para one s own devotional life while directing the ” r to g aph emphasizes the value of this variety soul Him who alone is God . The fourth “ r r . D r r f r of exposito y p eaching . Blackwood chapte , Should we look or anothe ” tells us the importance of having a sturdy Christ ? may not appeal to some but it is “ structure in the outline : The structure both Biblical and typical of the questions ut r r should stand o . As in a wo king horse , that men a e asking today . It deals with r the e should be a bony framework . How the doubts that men have and ends with the ” r “ eve , the passerby should see the horse on conviction that He is THE O N E " r the bones , not the bones in the ho se . Then comes a chapter on The Heart of ” “ The suggestions f or a course of paragraph r r r the Ch istian Faith . The Ete nal C oss is “ sermons are excellent : Master the book as declared to be central in the Christian r O r ” a whole , and then prepare a cou se f se r of . ” teaching and eal in the needs men It r r r . - mons f om the selected pa ag aphs The does not minimize or black out sin . It in by- products of this type of preaching sists upon its reality and that it is never paragraph preaching or sermons dealing dealt with adequately until one kneels at with a whole chapter or sermons dealing r r the foot of the cross . Afte a chapte on with an entire book— will rovide an ln “ r p My Church , in which the autho gives a i r r ’ exhaust ble sto e of p eaching materials . fine interpretation of Jesus conception of The suggestions for using Bible Readings r r the Church , we come to a f ank and fai - r r in the mid week se vice should b ing new presentation of man . Recognizing that the to r life any chu ch . remaking of human nature is the problem The last three chapters of the book : The r r r ’ ” ’ of the hou , the autho defends the Ch is r r “ r r r I m Se mon s G owth , The Inte p ete s tian insistence upon rebirth and regenera a inati n ” “ ” g o , and The Practical Advantages r tion . And then comes a positive decla ation h are “ ” give us omiletical suggestions which of faith that Jesus is our Religion . He invaluable for the p reparation of any ser insists that Christ is the sole reason f or and are of for r r re mon but especial value the p ep power of Christianity . The e can be no r O B r n a ation f iblical se mo s . covery of preaching power or church pres “ ’ The appendix on The Preacher s Li r r are r ” tige until p eache and people mo e brary is in itself worth the whole price certain of Christ than of their own moods ” . H r r f or of the book e e is a p actical guide and knowledge . The book ends with the ministers young and old in the building up confident conviction that Christ is ready to of a library which will better equip them to save us but “ He is blocked by a wave of r r r r r p oclaim the unsea chable iches of Ch ist . unbelief and conceit and selfish dicke ing RAN K N LE ” . I n F S S about human rights and opinio s . Until ri P nceton . that unbelief is turned into faith we cannot hope to be happy ourselves or useful as
L H H BE THE H followers of Christ . E T THE C URC CHURC . f r r r B E lmer G eor e Homri ha e Here is a worthwhile book o p eache y g g us n. The ’ r et Abin do Pres and people . It is schola ly and y simple , g n s. 19 9 pp . r o timely and practical , sea ching and convin This is a timely series of addresses and of r ing . It is written out a deep pe sonal r - se mon essays upon an important subject . concern f or the Church and a personal con r There is g eat searching of soul upon the r viction of real powe . part of clergy and laity alike with r gard to EN M N F ARBER B J A I . F r r n the Chu ch . There a e thousa g5 upon N ew Y ork Clty' thousands of churches and millions of pro fessing Christians and yet there is some L ’ E ssa in R ecollec PI GRIM S W AY . An y thing lacking in the Church in these critical io B L rd Tweedsmuir ( J hn E u w t n. y o o . r r days The autho faces this p oblem ith hton Cambrid e Mass. H u chan . , g h ) g , o becoming umility and yet with an honesty n Mifflin Compa y. and straightforwardness which arrests at criti r tention . Without being pessimistically Several months ago I was p eaching at a cal of the Church he deals with her failures Summit , N . J . , and st yed at the palatial inn n who r and weaknesses with painstaking care . Be in that tow . The maid se ved me at ginning with an analytical chapter on the table revealed herself a country woman by r O r 1937 her first sentence ; she told me that she was ph ase coined at xfo d in , he passes ’ “ ’ ” B ’ L r Tweed smuir s) to a chapter on Christianity s Manifesto . reading John uchan s ( o d ’ a r e Here he deals with the widely d iscussed Pilgrim s W y. Ah , the old b e d , the same f r r question of repentance . This is one o the old blood still cultivating lite atu e on a n outstanding sermons of the book and de little oatmeal " I wonder if there are ma y
r . r r who serves ca eful study . I t will be found to be like he in Ame ica have the taste and most helpful in a popular presentation of good sense to read such high literature . I “ r r . this vital theme . The God Men Wo ship hope so indeed It is just to help inc ease “ ” are faces the foundation fact of life . It suc the number of such that these few lines ceeds in creating a searching analysis of written .
THE ‘ PR I N CE TO N S E MI N AR Y B U LLE TI N
. r rr the the r si nificance for B cussed In efe ing to fall of Fi st g iblical studies , lacks the Dynasty of Babylon at the hands of the spectacular appeal of the remains found in the am Hittites , Kenyon still accepts old date Egypt and Mesopot ia . In connection with 20 B - c . 00 . C. , but in the light of the recentl the r t r r r y p o o Sinaitic insc iptions , efe ence d r M r s 2 iscove ed a i tablet , S idney Smith should have been made ( footnote , p . 20 ) Alalakh and Chron l Lo 1940 r r B De ( o ogy, ndon , , p . to the a ticle by Fathe utin on the ci herment and S i ni cance o the I nscri 29 r 159 B C. p ) educes this date to 5 . , with g fi f p tions in the same number of the journal r o . t 11 b t n which Alb ight ( p ci . , p . 3) su s a cited . i ll 1 C. re . ta y ( c . 600 B ) ag es We cannot , Chapters I " and " are devoted to Papyri however, follow Kenyon in holding that that O r M r of r r event has any connection with the imm igra and the anusc ipts , and cou se he e r Kenyon is in his element and speaks with tion of the Hittites into Asia Mino . It r . O n . 223 Profes seems that the people who later became the autho ity p the initials of sor rr r Hittites and the Indo - Europeans split from Johnson should be co ected f om H . C . to . . r " I I r r re- - r A C Chapte ( A chaeological Dis each othe in p Indo Eu opean times , and ’ cover N ew the author s suggestion that the Hittites y and the Testament ) logically i r also belongs to th s g oup . The student who car ie from Iran cannot be seriously consid r r eren is inte ested in texts and manusc ipts , how r eve , should go beyond these chapters and Crete and Philistia are treated next in ’ consult Kenyon s two other books : The order, and in the following chapter ( VI) Text o the reek Bible 1 9 r f G , 93 , and O u we have a discussion of Sumer and Baby Bible and the Ancien M anuscri ts 1939 3500 B the e t p , . lonia . In taking . C . as b ginning r F r r r Kenyon sees the impo tance of setting of the i st Dynasty of U , Kenyon appa o the Hebrews into the great Oriental back ently is to high , and he does not accept the ground of the civilization and culture of 3000 B. C. latest opinion ( 0 . ) of Smith Egypt and the Fertile Crescent . The elev whom he quotes in the footnote on p . 108 enth r r r c k T a er o chapte (A chaeological Discove y and ( f . also Mee , he H v f rd S ymposium O r o Ar haeolo l w the ld Testament) is inte esting and can n c gy and the Bibe, N e Haven ,
m r. 1 a be used advantageously by the iniste In 938 . p . In the s me footnote, he cites ’ wi r m t O f 1940 B for H m r connection th c iticism , Kenyon aptly S ith s da e . C . am u abi ,
. 269 r r r M nt m r 1939 r d quotes ( p ) f om P ofesso o go but adds that in the yea he lowe e “ er : are r - y We lea ning that much of what t 18 0 185 B . or er. O . 109 it o 6 0 . C lat n p , r was formerly regarded as late and purely however, he p efers to date that famous idealistic legislation in the Mosaic Law is B . r r 2000 . C king c . Mo e ecently Smith ” r . O . 271 r - w of g eat antiquity n p , the autho o C. cit 1792 1750 B. ( p . . ) puts it at , ith ’ in referring to" the sun s standing still over o r em . which Albright ( p . cit. ) is in ag e ent r r a in - w r Gibeah inadve tently w ites Pent teuch U r Nina king of Lagash , no called U , of t r - N to stead Hexateuch . In that chap e it Nanshe or Zur anshe , probably has be would have been well to make more of B. . 0 o . 2600 reduced from c . 310 B. C . t c C wh rm r monotheism and take it back to Moses ( cf. Gudea of Lagash , o fo e ly was dated o r . cit. . 2 r r Alb ight, p , p at c . 600 must be lowe ed conside ably , probably to the late twenty- second century The plates in thebook are admirable and uncer r r h . i r B. C . While Kenyon efe s to the en ance the value of the volume Th s wo k rv r tainty of these dates (footnote , p . it se es a useful pu pose , especially in giving must be admitted that in this respect the the dates of various archaeological expedi - - Br r r are i work is not up to date . ief efe ences tions , but on account of its brevity it s made to the epics of creation and the deluge , only a point of departure for one who is and a few comparisons are made between interested in the results of Biblical archae r r the Code of Hammurabi and ve ses f om ology. The book came out just a few months r r Exodus and Deuteronomy . The student , before the works of 1940 to which efe ence r r to f r however, should have mo e mate ial has been made , and in consequence it su fe s B study the relations between the abylonian in many respects .
Y . A literature and the O ld Testament . In de HENR S GE H M N n the r scribing various excavatio s , autho r N B gives considerable attention to the wo k THE SERM ON O N THE MO U T . y r eli With a oreword b M a tin D ib us. done at U r. f y N ew Y ork ro r H Kraelin . P Ca l . r VI I to r f. g , Chapte is devoted Sy ia and the ’
i er ons 19 0. 1 8 . R as Charles S cr bn s S , 4 4 pp adjoining countries . In this section Shamra is of great importance to the Bibli
r . the cal student . To the bibliog aphy given on p This recent book by famous Heidel 163 should be added U garitic G rammar by berg professor does not give a detailed - r 1940. r r M 5 7 D r. Cyrus H. Go don , Rome , It is exegesis of eve y ve se of atthew , r f r Cha ter VI I I h r i of clea om p _ t at the a chaeol but confines itself to a d scussion the S er ogy of Palestine and Sinai , while of special principal problems connected with the r d geog aphical and histo rical interest and mon on the Mount . It eals in simple lan THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN 49
guage, but with comprehensive and expert r r the adicalism of the Se mon on the Mount , c knowledge, with su h questions as the but also from the attitude taken by Jesus relationship between the sayings of Jesus and his apostles . Thus the book raises the the r r r and o al t adition in the ea ly eternal question in a new way : Is it the will r i Chu ch, the un queness of the teaching of Christ that his Church should be con h r met od of Jesus , the diffe ence between formed to this world ? O r is the Church to of L the Jewish conception the aw and the live on its own right feeling responsible L , new aw of the Kingdom , as indicated in for r this wo ld, but never identifying itself r r the Se mon on the Mount, the Ch istological with any of its ends and purposes ? And r of backg ound of the teaching Jesus , and r r r ar fu the mo e , e we to build up our lives finally the Sermon on the Mount and the r by the effo ts of our will , or are we to
W r . o ld of Today trust in the power of the Holy Spirit that M r au ethodically most impo tant is the will transform us effectively ? The churches r’ r to r tho s endeavo place the Se mon on the on the mission field as all great Christians M r - n ount ove against the two fold backgrou d through the ages have believed in the ad r of l of the life wo k of Jesus , and the ife of venture of faith as implied in the Sermon r r the Ea ly Chu ch . This is a real progress ? ' on the Mount . Have they been wrong for r of , as the histo y exegesis shows , much OTT PE R O A . PI violence has been d one to the Sermon on the Mount by isolating its sayings from FRO M THE STO N E AGE T O CHRIS r r e thei histo ical cont xt . TI AN I TY : M onotheism and the Histori This book is one of the best introductions calProcess. B Willia F x e y m o w llAlbright. to the complex problem of the Sermon on Baltimore. The Johns Ho kin e p s Pr ss, r i the Mount and its manifold amificat ons , 19 40. Pp . 363 . and it is full Of valuable and most interest who x to r r Anybody is an ious obtain a clea , ing histo ical and linguistic information . r r V But the solution of the problem offered by eliable , and comp ehensive iew of the mo mentous changes that archaeology has Prof. Dibelius is less satisfactory. While r of O he is now inclined to regard as authentic w ought in the study the ld Testament r i N r most of the material contained in these and the elig ons of the ea East could r r n three chapters of Matthew he nevertheless ha dly find a bette guide tha this book
B r r. W i r . Al thinks that the Early Church laboured under of the altimo e schola h le P of ’ r r to r a complete misunderstanding of Jesus b ight would ce tainly be the last p etend r r r o r that the lite a y approach to the Old Tes teaching . Acco ding t D . Dibelius , Jesus meant these sayings to be eschatological tament made by the great scholars of the r nineteenth centu y was altogether wrong, signs of the coming Kingdom , impracticable in r r he nevertheless states emphatically that the this wo ld, neve lived even by the Mas r abundance of archaelogical evidence has ter himself, and yet t ansforming the lives n helped considerably to . overcome the o e of men who listened to them , while the r - r Church interpreted them as practical rules sidedness of the histo ical c itical school , r and to confirm our confidence in the trust of daily life , thus completely alte ing their r wo thiness of the Biblical records . r r. cha acte ’ O ver against such a view the question Professor Albright s book has a twofold 1 aim , ( ) to give a survey of mental and must be asked , Are modern exegetes very likely to have a better and deeper insight religious developments in the Near East into Jesus ’ teaching than the apostolic gen from their first recognizable beginnings in ? A to r orations which collected his sayings But the Stone ge the days of Jesus Ch ist , not content with discarding the evangelist’s and ( 2) to build a philosophy of history
upon these data . interpretation Dr. Dibelius tells us that we cannot share Jesus’ own expectation of the ( 1) The author displays a stupendous to r imminence of the End , and that we have knowledge of all the ecent publications in — r of r re interpret his eschatology. He p etends this vast field , and the a chaeological i that Jesus wants us not to rely on his data , to both of wh ch he himself has made
- r r r our re r r l r S . wo ds , but athe to live on own ema kab e cont ibution Religious life in r r r sponsibility before G od . This would imply that a ea is desc ibed as showing a ce tain r r r r that we have to collaborate with this wo ld stability and st aightfo wa d tendency . In r r and its institutions , and that this wo ld the light of new info mation gained in the r r rightly makes a claim on our allegiance . last twenty yea s o so it is Obvious that and r r r r ( This is how Dr. Dibelius his f iends a . la ge section of the histo y of Is ael has r n try to justify their positive attitude towa d to be rewritte . But the important fact to r the p esent regime in Germany . ) be emphasized is the confirmation that the r ’ It cannot be denied that Dr. Dibelius new material brings to the picture of Is ael s r describes what is the attitude of the ave age development as drawn in the Old Testament . Christian not only in Germany but also in It is clear that in a field that is in a state r ru sa this count y . But it is also t e to y that of complete transition and where so many such an attitude is remote not only from data have not yet been carefully examined 50 THE PR INCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
r i r u r schola s will d sag ee about a n mbe of Gulf of Aqabah . He shows conclusively that
. r details Not all of his colleagues will fol the mode n highway, which is practically Dr r f or s n his e low . Alb ight , in ta ce, in views complet d now, follows almost exactly the r r r or r hi of the eligion of the Pat ia chs , in his T ajan ghway , built in the first part of r r r i r D inte p etation of Pha isaism , wh ch he the second centu y A . . , which had pre i i Ju viousl thinks was a k nd of Hellen sation of y been used by the Nabataeans . In d aism . But on r l the whole the autho has to fact , it was o d even before the Nabataeans d f or his r f be thanke cautious t eatment of came upon the scene , or numerous pottery his f or r m subject and the f ank ad ission of finds , dating between the 13th and l6th cen i r r r ri s ex sting unce tainties in a g eat numbe of tu e B. C. , have been unearthed along its instances . entire length , as well as ruins of large r r l to ( 2) P of. Alb ight is ikely find less and small ancient sites which go back to r f or h r nu r r app oval the p ilosophy of histo y the ea ly twenty centu ies B. C . This was r derlying his work . In the fi st place , the the highway over which the Eastern Kings question has to be asked, Is it possible at swept through Transjordan according to “ ’ ” all to write a philosophy of history in an Genesis 14; it was the King s Highway of ? M r r his inductive way o eove , attempt to N um . by which the Israelites wanted r r r r inte p et histo y in analogy with biology to go through Edom but were not pe mitted . confines his efforts to classifications rather In the mass of material presented in the than explanations . The factuality of mono following five chapters relating to the his theism and its development can hardly be tory of this region from the early Bronze
r . C. taken as proof of its necessity and its truth , Civilization , 23rd to 2oth centu ies B , r as the author wants to demonstrate . The which was wiped out by one t emendous hi r to fact that he narrows down s su vey blow, to the highly cultured Nabataean civ the N ear East will drive him on the basis ilization of the first centuries B. C . and r n r two r r im of his own method to the ecog ition that A . D . , the e stand out pa ticula ly his synthetic view is necessarily of a pro portant discoveries for the Bible student . r vi sional character. This fact , coupled with In the waste land of the Wadi A abah n 1934 x his disregard f or revelation and divine acts there was fou d in , by a joint e pedi r r r O r R e of election , would deg ade Ch istian mo tion of the Ame ican School of iental r r r r notheism to a t ansient idea, to be eplaced search at Je usalem , Heb ew Union College , if r in r r r by a new pattern in due time , the autho Cinc nati ,and the T ansjo dan Depa tment i not. i were consistent , as fortunately he is of Antiqu ties , abundant evidence of m ning r v i re O tto A . Pipe and smelting acti ities which made th s gion of inestimable value and importance to O O O N . By THE THER SIDE F THE J RDA every group or nation that wished to control N el lue N ew a en American s n G ck H v . o , r Palestine or Transjordan . W ith the impo P ch o rie ta R esearch. 19 0 S ools f O n l 4 . p . now tance of this region established , it is
208 ith 128 illustrati ns. , w o r clearly understood why the Is aelites , and O r to r B er f vital inte est eve y ible student is later on the Judeans , waged such bitt this authoritative account of the explora warfare with the Edomites during a period tions and excavations of Nelson Glueck dur of two hundred years for the mastery of r r r ing the last eight yea s in T ansjo dan this seemingly barren and useless area . r to ( Eastern Palestine ) . The autho , who is a Economic prosperity and power came r professor in the Heb ew Union College , Solomon and Uzziah in part because they nna r r r r r Cinci ti , as well as fo me di ecto of were in absolute control of these luc ative
r r r . the Ame ican School in Je usalem , has done mining sites of the Wadi A abah more to bring to light the treasures and Closely connected with this is the amaz i n secrets of this region than any other scholar. ing discovery of the true site of E z o The of r r r “ r wealth mate ial that he has gathe ed geber, late called Elath , the Pittsbu gh r r ” r is he e p esented in a lucid style without too of Palestine , and its elabo ate system of
h . i much tec nical detail , and illuminated with smelters or refineries Th s city , situated - r was remarkably clear and well selected illust a at the head of the Gulf of Aqabah , n ah of te i tions . There might have bee included built directly in the path the s ad ly r i r other map o two g ving the sites exp lo ed blowing north winds , so that by means of an in the Wadi Arabah ( the great rift between intricate system of flues and air- channels to ur the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqabah ) , and these winds could be harnessed f nish M r in the regions of Edom , oab , Ammon , and draft for the furnaces . The e is good evi r rr r r r Gilead . There is a se ious e o in the dence that this city was const ucted unde ’ printing on p . 65 , section IV , sentences two Solomon s administration , and just as with n r r r d th ee , whe e the meaning is hopelessly the mines of the Wadi A abah , its posses a n r r m ost . sion was coincide t with p ospe ous ti es r - r the In the opening chapter the autho well for the possessor. The E zion gebe of introduces his work by tracing the history Pentateuch ( Dtx must have been on Trans or h E zion- r of the highway which bisects the j another site nearby , since t e gebe of ’ dan plateau from the border of Syria to the Solomon s time was built on virgin soil . THE PR I NCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TI N 51
r r Once mo e the Edomites , Moabites , and what influences and f om what point of view r r their contemporaries stand out in true per the notes we e w itten . The same deter spective on the pages of history after being mination to take the Book seriously that ’ buried for almost three millenia in the marked Adolf Schlatter s writings ; the rug “ B r ’ h sands of Transjordan . Let it not be thought ged eloquence of a th s dialectics ; t e that so far as any of the trappings of cul earnest conviction that only one committed r r r ’ ture are concerned , the Edomites or Moab to Ch ist can eve hope to unde stand John s — ’ r r r . ites , or any of their contempo aries in Gospel these hallma k Hoskyns wo k He r r r r n Transjo dan , we e backwa d , o that they has not made the double assumption ( ofte possessed a civilization less developed than lying half concealed in too many theologi r “ r that which flourished on the west side of cal wo ks ) that the T uth , the ultimate i r rn of N az the Jordan . In most respects, all these theolog cal T uth , conce ing Jesus r r r groups developed similar cultu es , spoke and a eth is an obse vable , analysable thing, wrote essentially the same western Semitic capable of direct historical perception by r r r r language , wo shipped the same fe tility believe s and unbelieve s alike , and that r or re r r gods , and we e of the same closely this obse vability of the T uth is indeed ” i r ’ r lated ethnic stock ( p . But the one the mean ng of the Chu ch s doct ine of r r great difference , to which the author does Inca nation , since it meant that histo y and r her r r not commit himself, between Is ael and theology we e in the end identical facto s h r t r S ir E dw n r r kinsmen is that God had chosen e o be ( p . Rathe , y ega ds the r t the vehicle of His divine revelation . The e theme of the Fourth Gospel o be beyond r r t fore Israel lived on in the Book whe eas human knowledge , for it t eats of the las h i r r ar im the exploits of most of er k nsmen we e things , affi ming that in Jesus men e r r r r unreco ded . Truly the esults of a chaeol mediately conf onted by life and judgment , r r for n r i ondemna ogy a e ve y welcome , both the u de by the love of God and by H s c standing of the Bible and the new light that tion . ’ r r r r may be th own upon civilization long since It is , mo eove , the autho s conviction r r r dead . that this theme de ives neithe f om mystic R T H r . I C r r C . T F S speculation nor ba e histo ical appe ception , r r but f om God . True disciples app ehend its i n THE F O URTH GO SPE L . By S r E dwy meaning in the same way as John did, not C Hosk ns edite b F ran N D a e . d cis . v , y , y y, by their own speculative ability nor by the
o e e Ltd . 2 vols. Lond n. F ab r and F ab r , n power of their own creative imagi ation , 1 3 pp . 7 8 30 . , but by the gift of the Spirit of truth ( John r b Bi so r P obably no ook in the ble has had This does not mean , howeve , that much written about it as the Gospel accord the commentator refuses to make use of r ing to John . Neve theless , in spite of this historical and critical faculties in evaluat r r r ’ r r huge quantity of lite atu e on the Fou th ing the words of John s Gospel . It is , athe , r ohannine r r Gospel , anothe good J commenta y by utilizing just such instruments of e
. r r r r r is always welcome And the p esent wo k search that the autho , fo example , eached r ood me its the adjective g . the conclusion that it is not licit to speak r S ir E dw n n r The autho , y Hosky s , is of radically different views of the pe son known to the theological world by his trans and work of Jesus Christ within the N ew o r B r ’ R omer r n lation int English of Ka l a th s Testament . With p esuppositio s such as brie r collabor r f and by his book w itten in these S ir E dwyn endeavo s , he says , to
r r . hi ation with a younge colleague , F ancis N hear and set forth the meaning w ch the T i o N e a ent he R ddle the w Test m . Davey, f author of the Gospel has himself heard and r r 1923 oc r The p esent commenta y, begun in , seen in the concrete , histo ical life and death ’ cu ied S ir E dw n s t p y at ention to the end of of Jesus of N azareth .
1 . r his life in 937 But, like his g eatest Eng The present commentary is a valuable r r B W lish p edecesso , ishop estcott , Hoskyns addition to the list of aids in the study of o to ’ died without having been able t give the the message and meaning of John s Gospel .
r . n re chief unde taking of his life final shape Though an excelle t tool , it does not p W r r r r r hile , the efo e , the eade must lament tend to supplant other commenta ies much that the author was cut off before he had less the guidance of the Spirit by whom the r r n ’ r re w itten , for instance , an introducto y sectio Apostle wrote . W estcotts wo k still d v for r ’ evalua ealing with the e idence the Johan mains , acco ding to Hoskyns own r r of O r nine autho ship , still eve y student the tion , classic . ther commenta ies , such as rn r Fourth Gospel will rejoice not only that the that of the Irish scholar, J . H . Be a d , in r p esent work was so nearly completed , but the International Critical Commentary r Mac also that it was edited and seen th ough series , that of the Scotsman , G . H . C . the r of p ess by one well acquainted with the gregor, in the Moffatt series , and those r’ r r autho s views . many continental schola s , both P otestant Mr n ser Even though . Davey had ot alluded and Roman Catholic, will likewise be o in r e r viceable t t them the p efac , the commenta y in the attemp to plumb the depths i f r r the tsel would indicate clea ly enough unde of this Gospel , at once the simplest and 52 THE ' PR I N CE TO N S E M I NARY BU LLE TI N
r . But r most p ofound among all these aids , In its most ecent statement of policy , ‘ ’ Hoskyn s stimulating and penetrating book the British Governm ent declares the inten i new m y g , g to wi i w ll supply an a insi ht theolo ical tion set up in Palestine , th n ten years , i r r and devotional , into th s lite a y holy of an independent state providing for the pro
. tection i r holies of the d ffe ent communities , in ac
BRU CE METZ GER . cordanc M . e with the obligations of Great Bri to tain both Jews and Arabs . The author AN D B THE JEWISH FATE FUTURE , y fears that this White Paper implies the
Translate b E . W . Arthur R uppin. d y abandonment of the essential provisions of
D ickes L ond on 1 9 0. P . 386. 4. M t , , 4 p $ the anda e , which bind the British Gov m n This is a distinguished study by a compe ern e t to help the Jews in the creation of r r r N H . v r tent and reliable autho . Long esidence in thei ational ome In iew of the g eat Palestine and intimate knowledge of the indebtedness of both Jews and Arabs to r Br r r r intricate world of Jewry highly qualif y Dr. G eat itain , the p esent eviewe fails to N r Ruppin to execute his task with masterful see how the peoples of the ea East , in F or rofes r own r ability and resourcefulness . p thei best inte ests , can seek in any to rr sional reasons he is able to make his con way emba ass the British Government in r r tribution primarily in the field of sociology its p esent o deals . Let Jew and Arab pa tiently w of r wherein he finds himself most at home . await the da n a bette day when There is besides a wealth of data in the in a democratic revival they may both be book presented in so succinct and accessible permitted to pursue their chartered courses r a manner that the volume deserves to serve unde G od . WA U J as a convenient reference book on present ED RD J . J R I r r day Judaism . But the ema k , made in pass N H. B E rnest S uther 1 to f AME RICA FAIT y ing on p . 2 , the e fect that chess was land Bates N ew Y ork : W N or W. ton r e r , . invented by the Pe sians is not quit accu and Com an 19 0 79 p y, 4 . 4 pp . ate since the word and the game owe their , As the subtitle of the volume intimates r r . , origin to Sansk it and India espectively ’ the author s purpose is to present our r is r Z . The autho , f ankly , a ionist He “ ” r “ R e tends to establish his claims on the political Ame ican Faith in the light of Its li ious Mes g , Political , and Economic F ounda nationalist rather than the religious ” . r i w r tions The su vey, beg nning ith medieval sianic ideal . He maintains th oughout the to r a narrative a sober and understanding judg Catholicism and extending the outb e k v W ar r f r of the Ci il , is specially elated to what ment . The work o fe s , by means of tables , — r are called in the concluding sentence footnotes and statistical cha ts , a vast 470 — ” rr r ( p . ) the two ideal values in times a ay of condensed facts , bea ing on the “ ” r our r past, and the main a ticles still , of numbers , distribution , and inc ease of the “ r r ” national faith , libe alism and democ acy . Jews . The economic advance of the Jews r r Of the four Books into which the history since their emancipation , thei p ospects d r r r r r r is ivided , the fi st deals with the Refo ma in a warring wo ld , and thei he oic effo ts r r r to usher in a better day are delineated with tion as a econst uction of Roman Ch is
tianit . H r hr y e e , as indeed t oughout , the notable precision and telling eff ect . A highly illuminating section bears the title : Be emphasis falls on the social and economic d r r b tween the Millstones of Anti - Semitism and con itions ; the eligious facto s , though y ” no are a re r means neglected, seldom pp Assimilation . The last pa t of the book ,
r r . r r hended in their pu ely spi itual significance devoted to Zionism prope , t aces this move r of B 2 r i ment to the fundamental Messianic and po The ten chapte s ook find thei un ty r m r r in the conside ation that the A e ican col litical dynamics . The ebuilding of Pales “ onies r r r we e the p ovidential land of hope , tine along economic , educational , eligious , ” , r i r for confilct oppo tun ty, and expe imentation the and social lines , is analyzed . The re r between the Jew and the Arab is treated completion , the mo adequate ealization , of “ the great ideals implicit in the Reforma r r r . in a fai , though pa tisan , f ame of mind ” . r i Massachu Z tion The sketches of Vi gin a , Though committed to the cause of ionism , setts , Rhode Island , Connecticut, Maryland , the author yet exercises in this part of the and Pennsylvania are ably executed , giving book particularly ample restraint comm and the reader many a fresh insight into the - r n . ing the espect of the open mi ded student development of our free institutions and hi not Patently , the title of t s book does also much critically sifted material upon wh do . r r o justice to the contents The eade , which to base his own judgment of some of r to r on the othe hand , expects find he e an the outstanding personalities and their m m B r— a enthusias and a defense will be so ewhat achievements . ook 3 devotes a chapte to — disappointed . Instead one is invited a rather meager and misleading one to Jona r to r lea ned manual , devoted the p ecepts of than Edwards and the Great Awakening ; r rch t scientific esea , steeped in the analy ical another to Deism; and six to the exp osition appi'oach and dominated by the academic of European political theory and American the e i mooci political fact , the Revolution , stabl sh THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN 53
r r ’ ment of the national gove nment, and the is ext avagantly praised . O ne s confidence later formative influences represented by in the author as a biblical and theological f r B en Je fe son and Jackson . The last ook , guide is shaken rather early when one finds “ r titled The Faith Romanticized is ha dly ( p . 27) the fall of Adam located in the r of r 4 wo thy its place alongside of the othe s , second chapter of Genesis and when ( p . 3 ) r r L r though it will doubtless p ove the most the Catha s , Waldenses , olla ds , and Huss interesting even to readers who cannot ites are labelled “ four essentially Protestant r r’ for “ ” r r to sha e the autho s enthusiasm the lib sects . It will occasion little su p ise ” ralizin n not e g te dencies embodied in such bi read that Calvin derived his theology, “ arr r - z e eligio social phenomena as the Mor from the Bible , but from the kind of
r r . mons , the Shake s , the Owenists , the Four church gove nment he had in mind ( p “ ierists v , and the Oneida Perfectionists . that the limited class of the Cal inistic There is much to commend in this notable elect was broadened ( by the "uakers ) to who r volume . Though the more serious students include all believing Christians t uly ” “ i of the subject might like a more complete loved God ( p . that the Calvin stic d r r f r r ocumentation , all eade s will be im doctrines o p edestination and o iginal ” “ pressed by the breadth of the author’s his sin made God the actual creator of moral ” ‘ torical r r . i diflicult and lite a y interests , and even more evil ( p It was man festly r r B r i by the cou age and the soundness of his for D . ates to do justice to such elig ous r r L r v c iticisms of some of his predecessors in the leade s as uthe , Cal in , and Jonathan r r to field of Ame ican history. He offers ample Edwa ds , and the benevolent activities of r for r r r . easons , example , f or making some the mo e conse vative Chu ches r r majo changes in the conventual picture of I n spite of its many excellencies , the e N ew r too i the England theocracies drawn by such fo e , the book has many mislead ng r to r r for Pu itan apologists as Fiske and Palfrey, statements be satisfacto y eading the who D r B r r r . But for exte and acon , and , mo e ecently , ty o in this field those have n r r Chan ing and Mu dock . N ot only are familia ized themselves with the essential hitherto neglected facts brought into the facts of our religious and p olitical history r r t su vey, but old facts are frequently viewed this discussion will p ove s imulating and
r . r too in a new light . The economic emphasis in p ofitable Afte all , the iconoclast, , r scientific histo y is now , as many would can fulfil a useful didactic function in a to w r r r have us believe , give way to the p sy o ld in which we all find it ha d to lea n cholo ical to r . g , but the considerations which the and tell the whole t uth REDER ICK LO E TS CHE R author makes his main concern will always F W . have their place in a proper understanding M n r r JO HN HUS AN D THE CZE CH REF O R . of such eve ts as the Eu opean Refo mation , o n ver t the of r By M atthew S p inka. Chicag , U i si y planting the Ame ican colonies , the
r War - o Chica o Press. 81 . Revolutiona y , and the anti slavery f g pp
. movement And the style , it must be added , Students of the history of Christian doc is one of unusual merit and charm ; quite trine and of the period before the Reforma e who all that might be expect d of one spent tion are familiar with the problem of the many years as a professor of English in actual dependence of John Hus upon John several universities and later served on Wyclif and with the problem of what was r r r va ious edito ial boa ds . There is not a dull H r r the essential meaning of the Czech , ussite , pa ag aph in the book , and many a page n Br r r r . r w r and the U ity of eth en efo m Since spa kles ith an epig am , a flash of humor, ’ Loserth s - or o r Johannes epoch making book , a t uch of i ony. Hus and W cli y f, published in 1884, it has But r be r the wo k must ead with caution . m m mm w r i for one Dr B beco e al ost co onplace ith ce ta n thing, . ates was no theologian , European historians to deny John Hus all and it is rather pathetic to see how a originality and to treat the Hussite Befor scholar of admirable competence in some ” . clifi mation as a W y sm in Bohemia . A can r fields make quite ludic ous mistakes in more extensive and intensive investigation r D “ othe s . oubtless , his scorn of ecclesias ” of Hus and his Czech predecessors has ca not to , ti l dogma has a little do with his r r howeve , evealed two important facts : the t inabili y to do justice to the doctrinal as r fi st , that the Hussite Reform had origi e of or r m pe ts hist ic Ch istianity . A an of hated in a native religious movement in r ma ked likes and dislikes , he allows his par B ohemia ; the second , that Hus , though an tiality for r r ’ the social adicals of eve y age ardent student of Wyclif s writings never mar N L , to his judgment . ot uther and g of W Z had accepted the teachin yclif without wingli , not Calvin and Knox are the real r r n sc upulous disc imination , a d had remained r r r i efo me s ; it is the d ssenters on the ex to the end among the moderate and critical r t eme left wing that have made the sig r adhe ents of the English Reformer. nificant r to cont ibution human progress . Dr k . Matthew Spin a , a competent student beneficent The features of the Great Awak of the Cé ntral European and Eastern Ortho enin g are r dox passed ove in silence , but Deism ecclesiastical history , has recently pub 54 THE PRI NCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
lished r r u r r are for a book , b iefly and maste ly s mma cont ibutions , the most part , clearly
r i ri r . r r izing the esults of the h sto cal and theo t aced He e we ead of Robert G . Ingersoll r r r i H r r r logical cont ove sy conce n ng the Hus and en y Geo ge ; Theodo e Parker, Theo
r r . B on r r . M r theology and efo m ased a tho ough do e T unge , Horace Bushnell , Elisha i r r r r knowledge of the Czech h sto ical esea ch Mulfo d, and John Bascom ; C . Loring Brace and i r . rr in of the med eval theology, the book con and Hen y S Sto s ; W ash gton Gladden , ’ ’ i rr Los h o . vinc ngly co ects ert s views of Hus s R swell D Hitchcock, and Richard T . Ely ; W i ycl fism , and analyzes the main aspects of Joseph Cook , David Jayne Hill , George D . r H rr the Czech Refo m . Spinka is skeptical of e on , Josiah Strong, Walter Rauschen r r the familiar p esentation of the torch being busch , Geo ge S telzle, and many others . “ p assed on from Wyclif through Hus to There is a very correct appreciation of the ’ ’ ’ ’ L r. i r r r 80 uthe The h sto ical development was indust ial c ises of the s and 90 s, an i “ r less s mple . Hus in many ways differed unde standing of the effect of both the at r W if r r essentially f om ycl , and always in the t action and the fea of socialism , as well ” r r r ic to r r di ection of mode ation and conse vatism . as an ind ation of the tendency ega d And Luther went considerably beyond Hus the social movement as the kingdom of “ in his rejection of the orthodox Catholic heaven . Some attention is paid to labor ” ’ i . m t s . ink o ystem of thought Hus , in S p a s opin un onism The book may be co mended ion r n , may be desc ibed as the foremost rep any one who wants such an accou t of the r e for resentative of the indigenous Czech relig movement . As an o ientation t xt stu i hi it r . ous movement , his c ef interest being in dents may be used with good esults m oral r r r r r . efo m , athe than in ecclesiastical The book has its manifest sho tcomings r or i or evolt in theolog cal speculation . The auth is evidently an enthusiastic ’ 0 r r— a T be su e , Hus s Biblicism and his defini social gospele fact which ought not to tion of the Church as the totality of the disqualify him as an historian ; but he is p redestinate contributed largely towards the rather indiscriminate in some of his ap r r ’ reications r of t r P otestant Refo mation . But Hus s moral p of whoeve wha eve aided and r the . d r p actical zeal , rather than theological movement A mi ation puts out the ’ — r . n thought , has never ceased to characterize c itic s eye sometimes The o ly subject r for r the Czech Refo mation . It has been its which he bet ays no enthusiasm is con ’ r ventional r . N or st ength as well as its weakness . S pinkas Ch istianity has he any r evi one love for conservatives . The e is no book helps to understand both . R M AD of t n J . L . H O KA. dence such an at itude as that take by E rnest Johnson ( The S ocial Gosp el R e
E xamined r r 19 10) ,who h T HE RISE O F THE S O CIA L GO S PE L I N , Ha pe , sees t at the t A N Y 1865 - 1915 whole position needs modifica ion , and that AMERICAN CHRISTI IT . r i im B Charles Howard i the libe al theology back of it is qu te y Hopk ns. Y aleS tud ies Wh it r r in R eli i us E ducatio N e possible today . ile is t ue the autho g o n, w Haven, r to r Conn Y ale niver it Press 1 p oposes w ite of the movement only , U s y , 940 . pp . until 1915, yet inasmuch as the book was 352, r a published in 1940, one might e sonably hi ter m ao T s is an in esting , sti ulating have expected to see some trace in the au u of r i ’ co nt the Social Ch istian ty movement , thor s mind of the drastic criticism to r r and a desi able piece of wo k . The move which the movement has recently been sub ment is traced from its beginnings in 1865 jected , and to which he himself alludes in a 1915 until , when it had been adopted by the too to sentence on page 327. If it is much r r r mo e conse vative as well as by the mo e expect a sound theology in a factual his r C r r r libe al hu ches , and had eached a ela too to tory , is it not also much find the a r ’ tively st ble statement in the social c eeds author s liberal theology peeping out here r of the Chu ches and the Federal Council . and there through the mask of the histor Four periods are recognized and discussed : ? if to ian As a matter of fact , he meant The B r M 1865 “ i th of the Social ovement , write of the movement largely as an over 1880 The i : Y M ; Eight es A outhful ovement, confident and perhaps superficial social gos 1880- 1890 ; The Social Gospel Comes of Age , i con pel ( p . lacking the ecumen cal 1890—1900 r it 1900 ; Matu ity and Recogn ion , sciousness and a deep appreciation of the 1915 M r . uch of the mate ial was gathered as i historic significance of Christian ty , he did r r r i f r Ph. pa t of the equ ement o the D . de r if r well . It would have been bette the e had r Y s l re g ee at ale , though the book it e f is p been indications here and there of a deeper sumably the enlargement of the material View . r f or to gathe ed the thesis . As was have r Y et it is a good book to ead , and will find r i been exp ected , the autho did some sol d a useful place . r r , is u , N KU I Z E N GA esea ch the book well doc mented and JOH E . a supplementary bibliography of some
r i . - N D titles is p om sed THE S O CIAL GO SPE L R E E " AMI E . r ur o on N ew Y ork and Lon All the g eat fig es of the social move By F . E rnestJ hns ,
r r r e nd Brothers 19 0 . 261. ment appea he e , and thei tendencies and don. p r a , 4 , pp
56 THE PR INCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
It is fortunate that of the ten chapters O AN D O LLY I N L WISD M F RE IGIO N , r are a i B Jose h Har ’ the fi st and last outst nd ng and as outunian. S crib y p ner s, “ to r u N ew Y rk 19 0 such tend bind the whole a g ment into o , 4 . pp . 1 74. a unity . The arg um ent is plain enough : The new Associate Professor of Sys there are in the main two great classic . tematic h r r i rae - T eology at the P esbyte ian Sem views of man , the G co Roman which in “ ry i r terprets man primarily from the stand na in Ch cago has al eady made known his r r for v i point of the uniqueness of his rational fac eve ence Cal in sm in an earlier ” book dealing mainly with the thought of ulties , and the Christian which regards “ r i r ri r r Jonathan Edwa ds , and th s latest wo k man p ma ily f om the standpoint of God , s f or r rather than the uniqueness of his rational shows that his pa sion Refo mation the ” not i w ology has d minished . faculties , ith the result that Christian . r N r Y r anthropology speaks of the unity of per H Richa d iebuh of ale w ites an ’ r sonality on the one hand and man s wilful int oduction in which he says that the book “ r to r r is add essed all who have been unable ebellion against his divine o igin on the ” “ r i to escape the t ag c sense of life . In some r . r othe hand In a wo d , the Christian view i r r r ah of human nature is involved in the paradox ways th s is a athe cu ious book . It nounces or of claiming a higher stature for man and of no thesis plan except that of radical criticism . W e are told on the first taking a more serious view of his evil than ” ar page , and we e not allowed to forget as other anthropology . Although logically and r r a theologically these two classic views are we p oceed , that P otest ntism today is a r n i i r weak adulte a t of what it was in the six d st nct and in a sense incompatible , neve nth tee ry, theless medieval Catholicism attempted to centu and that unless the em phases of the Reformers are once again r r r . me ge them into a single inte p etation , viz ’ made re nant in faith and life there is Aquinas synthesis of Aristotelianism and g little hope for Protestantism or f or the n . r ra i Augustinia ism In the mode n e , th s
“ r . r r synthesis was broken in so f ar as the wo ld The book is , acco dingly , a cla ion Renaissance distilled the classical elements call to humility and repentance . We have r r r to out of the synthesis and the Reformation gone ast ay ; we must etu n again the r i L r sought to free the Biblical from the classi signposts e ected by August ne , uthe , ” O ur rr r . Calvin , Edwa ds , etc te ible defection cal elements . And in our own day liberal r r a r is given heto ical emphasis by means of the Protest ntism is an abo tive attempt once ’ w author s short crisp sentences which at more to unite the t o elements . We should r r r r r times , it must be confessed , become epeti not be su p ised , the efo e , when we find ’ B r r r that modern man is very much conf used tious and monotonous . a th s ea lie essays f or come to mind as we read these pages , about himself . to our The substance of the book is taken up here again we are asked to face up r r with a critical examination of this historical apostacy . The e is no doubt that such c ying r r r in the wilde ness is much needed today and analysis , and the autho leads us fi st into our r i of r the inadequacies of modern views and then that eligion as we th nk it is mo e But r into a consideration of the specifically folly than wisdom . the e will be those w r the a D as r r r ho will wonde in midst of he ted Christian view . The fo me has inte est sages on original sin and double predesti because it is so closely related to the world nation what has become of the Gospel of today and the latter is of great moment as , for to hope and salvation . It is well us be it attempts to make clear the fundamental reminded that the Christian faith takes sin features of Christian anthropology . r r and forthcom and evil se iously and that total dep avity Undoubtedly this book , its t r re r r to and justifica ion by faith ( the autho p ing sequel , will make a eal cont ibution ” fers “ justification by God ) belong to the the growing literature on one of our most r essence of Protestantism , but it will ha dly pressing contemporary theological prob “ r r r hr do to say that a P otestantism which ex lems . F or a gene al su vey of the C istian poses the sin within us and teaches us radi r . doctrine of man , an olde volume by H cal self- criticism which leads us to the fear Wheeler Robinson is still in many respects , r for r of wi who of G od and conce n the glo y God , unsurpassed . There ll be some will r r of be wonder why N iebuhr makes no use or even will act as a t ue Chu ch God and r r ’ r Man in come a genuine powe towa d p eace and mention of Brunner s latest wo k , ” righteousness among men , as though the R evolt especially since Brunner and Nie , r r o uhr are r r en glo y and p omise of the G spel lay solely b so much alike in seve al pa ti d ’ r . But B r are in its doct ine of sin this unbalance lars . Echoes of e dyaev s thinkin g al so ’ r to r r r emp hasis is pe haps to be expected in a book be hea d , but by and la ge Niebuh s : who are m r which can make such a statement as this book is his own , and those fa ilia “ The roots of true Protestantism are to be with the trend and temper of his thought found more often among the unbelievers of will perhaps find this latest volume his best ‘ ’ r . and the most definitive of the theological our day than among the loyal chu chmen And there would be Calvinists just as proud position which he has been pursuing . of their heritage as the author who would N JR . H U GH T HOMSO KERR , THE PR I NCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TI N 57
“ “ question the judgment : The crown of ness of Jesus according to the convictions ‘ ” “ ” r his r r Protestant piety is the doctrine of double of his mind, the d ama of ca ee , ’ “ r r r election . But this is the kind of book that and the cent al tempe of his spi it . r w r wh makes criticism easy simply because it dares The e ill be few, on the othe hand, o ’ to stab awake our contemporary and often will find fault with the author s analysis of r r our r e or complacent Protestantism . the Ch istian Chu ch in p esent ag , N R with his vision of the Church in the world HU G H H M O ERR J . T O S K , rr of tomo ow . In any case , there is much r enr of sobe judgment and evangelical thinking REALITY AN D RE LIGI O N , By H y in these pages , and their message is one P Van D usen. N ew Y ork Ass ciation . , o r i ress 1 wo th heed ng P , 940. 88 pp . U GH H M N ERR H T O SO K , JR . There is always reason f or welcoming a w r ne volume in the se ies known as the A PHI LO SO PHY O F THE CHRISTIAN i W r Hazen Books on Relig on . ith this p esent N B dw e e REVE LATI O . y E in L wis. N w i are add tion a dozen such studies available , Y ork Har er a d Brot r , p n he s. 19 40. and it is interesting to note that many of the previous books have gone into as many This is a magnificently written book as r r r r i . as eight p intings . Aside f om the obvious b oad in scope as Ch istian ty itself The e not r attractions of price and size, the Hazen titl should mislead us since its eve y Books have contemporaneous appeal be word reveals careful choice : here we find r e cause of their subject matter and their au not simply a discussion of one doct in , r r r thors , all of whom are worth a careful and evelation , but a t eatment of Ch istian
r r . r ah respectful hearing. This latest study by t uth as a g eat whole He e we have r r - the professor of systematic theology at othe bold manifesto , a joyous t umpet call , um i r r w r re Union Seminary , N ew Y ork , maintains the s mon ng Ch istians eve y he e to r r uh standard al ready set and adds much to the joice in thei he itage , and challenging r m m usefulness and vitality of the series as a believe s to exa ine its clai s . ? . whole . The book deals with three great How do we know God He has spoken “ “ questions : Why Religion Why Chris He has revealed himself in the history of ? ” “ ? ” r r tianity Why the Church There are the Heb ews, in Jesus Ch ist, and in the
r r r Christian Church . We today come to know also a Fo ewo d and an Epilogue , the latte ’ revealing and echoing some of the convic God s purpose with man through the Scrip ’ r tions which the author has recently set forth tures . And we see that God s Wo d became r r so splendidly in F or the Healing of the N a ever clea e to his people . Revelation takes lace r r r tions. It would be difficult in a word to p in life and expe ience and the efo e r r are characterize this book or for that matter p ecedes any documents . Reco ds wit to r ma r any of the Hazen Books . They are not theo nesses evelation and y se ve as means r r n logical in the academic sense , yet they deal of t ansmitting t uth , know in the past , to
r r . But W r with the subjects of theology . They a e each new gene ation the o d of God not apologetic in the polemic or controver is ever greater than mere human means of
r . W r r sial sense , yet they undertake to defend the exp ession hat matte s is that the t uth r r r to Christian faith . They a e not popula in which we possess is mo e than adequate
- e r . the sensational sense , yet they can b ead lead man to salvation Are r and enjoyed by all . It is perhaps this whole we to accept such astounding t adi some balance which accounts for the suc tions as that of the Virgin Birth and that rr ? Y es cess and the influence of these books . of the Resu ection , that acceptance “ ” r our r i e . Religion , we are told , becomes a matte constitutes sup eme acqu esc nce ? of reality especially at those times in our How are we to justify our belief By rea ? r r ? B ? B r experience when life matte s most . The e son y science y documenta y evidence We r are at least six such crises : consciousness N ot at all . believe not because eason or or r of maturity , marriage , parenthood , the science documents give us ce tainty sense of failure the experience of separa but because the Virgin Birth and the Resur , ” r n r “ r r of I ncar tion , and death . And the author takes pains ectio fo m a natu al pa t the “ our r to point out that these six occasions are nation of our Lord . In unive se we not all times of trouble or weakness when discover an order with which science and r r r r an r r r our desi e is fo a c utch , a comfo t , eason can deal , but also an o de which r of to i . r escape . This is the refutation the claim belongs fa th Events in the latte sphe e that men turn to religion only when up do not run counter to reason but neither ” r n r . i against insuperable difficulty . Those who can man app ehe d them by eason Un que are interested in niceties of distinction may events like those with which we are dealing ’ not be satisfied with the author s definition cannot be understood by analogy . Science “ r no for . r of Christianity in the words , Ch istian has place them It is p ecisely the ” r B r Faith is faith in the faith of Jesus . And fact that we believe that the Vi gin i th rr rr there may be others who will find something and the Resu ection , as they occu ed , too facile in the consideration of the unique could have been true only of Jesus Christ 58 THE PR INCE TON S E MINAR Y BU LLE TIN
iv that g es to them their peculiar significance most helpful to the reader who is well for us . grounded in the Scriptures and in the his r r r r r The efo e it is t ue that faith in Ch is to y of doctrine . tianity will always present an alternative r , The style is wo thy of study. The para . unbelief . Knowledge presents no alterna r i g aph ng is skillful . As a rule the thought tive : I can know a thing to be true but I r r is clea , and the inte est is well sustained . m cannot allow that it at the same ti e may "uotable sentences appear in every chapter: But r not be true . with faith it is diffe ent : “The fact that the Jews reject Christianity there is always an alternative which un I S no reason why Christians should reject r r ” “ believe s may easonably choose . Faith is Judaism ; O ur most impressive and pro r r a v r r the efo e always icto y ove doubt . This found system of theology ( is ) that of John ” “ is the situation in which God has chosen Calvin ; Had there been no Christian The to place us . balance may even be church there would have been no Christian ’ ” . But re against Faith God s velation to us gy. r are ” theolo Especially wo thy of note “ r is given in Jesus Ch ist . And the indi the pages which plead f or the deity of vidual must stand where he can grow in this r Ch ist as a vital part of our holy faith . “ ” l wn his o . given unti it becomes Then , Would that every preacher or teacher of r r r eve y Ch istian believes , he will find pe fect Christian truth could present his case as satisfaction . strongly and persuasively" But a reviewer can only suggest the wealth for As the case itself, the verdict is N ot ” , in i . of insight th s book It speaks home to proven . There is likewise a question why
our i . r t me With its emphasis on ealism , the book finds its place in a series of note
r i ry, r r r the ole of h sto the dange s of an ideal wo thy lectu es about preaching . Doubtless istic r r r r , a bit a y acceptance of only pa ts of the reason is that we all are stressing i i r “ Christian ty, th s wo k will help to stem the r r what to p each mo e than how to preach , tide which would wash our faith away in and that there is a renewal of emphasis on i r w subjectivism . Christian ty is eithe holly r r the p eaching of doct ine . Ultimately the true or wholly false and that in the most character of one ’s preaching depends upon
r i r c . ur r r i ealistic , h sto i al sense one so ce of autho ity in el gion and life . N o one can l ead this book without being F or that sourcemany of us prefer to look to thankful f or a theologian who has not only something more abiding and more readily mastered English style but also made it his interp reted than the stream of Christian H r ru . beautiful , poetic inst ment e e is a man history . r of r N B K W D DREW LAC . who has a deep app eciation the wonde s A W . OO of our faith and the G od- given ability to exp ress them . ME A SURIN G THE DEVE LO PME N T O F REDERICK IK ER HE LLE GE R S . F R N Y Ther F uture N ow PERS O A LIT . i is . B rne i y E stM . L gon. TheM acmillan Com A N Y ? B Charles W H T I S CHRI STIA IT y a p ny, 19 39 , C M rris n E ditor o the Christian Cen . o o , f ’ - r r r h r eecher Lectures at Y ale A seven yea s pa tne s ip between the tu y. [ Ayman B , r psychological labo atory of Union College , ar e vo. il t Clark Co. Chica o. L 8 W le , , g g , under Professor Ernest M . Ligon and a 321. pp . r in N ew Y r - r r chu ch school Albany , o k, has This book is thought p ovoking , pa tly r e because it is a blending of Biblical truth made a fruitful cont ibution to the scienc of r r r n r he cha acte development . The esult is co and ingenious speculation . Fo tunately , ain t t ed in this book . truth usually predominates . The hesis is Since the basic principle of science is that God has revealed himself to man , and r N measu ement , can its methods be applied to that the revelation is in history . egatively , ’ r r the author insists that God s revelation is the development of Ch istian pe sonality in r r r r to r r r r r or chu ch school pupils , f om kinde ga ten not p ima ily in any w itten eco ds , ? con college ages If certain traits are deter even in any person . The revelation , he mined as normative f or mature Christian r t r . F or tends , is ih the Ch is ian Chu ch much r r r r the i life, can p og ess towa d these t aits be of this , except negat ons , one gives ? measured in developing lives Dr. Ligon hearty thanks . has attempted to measure the desirable Dr. Morrison contends that the Roman r m r wi r Church has divorced the hierarchy from the t aits com ensu ate th the va ious age r “ r and r our levels , and to supe sede the old t ial people , and that we P otestants find ” r error method in character education . Cha revelation in the Bible . Likewise , he insists , r be are i l i acte development , he concludes , can correctly, that we unduly ind vidua ist c , rm e l r . i whereas Christian life and worship ought dete ined by int l igent di ection Th s procedure is the next step for the churches to be corporate. But he seems not to be The in the way of Christian education . aware that in Protestant theology, as in the “ ” ma r method , he feels, is not complex and y N ew Testament , the Wo d of God is him be operated in rural as well as city churches . Christ , not the Book which makes r r The e a r as r for known. Hence this recent wo k will p ove id al st nda d of me u ement THE PRI NCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TI N 59
r . Dr. Ligon is found in the Beatitudes . The his objectives have been eached The old “ ” traits there implied were fully treated in hit- and—miss method of character develop Th P chol “ his previous volume entitled , e sy ment was almost as useless as it was ” er o it re: . ogy of Christian P s nal y. They a simple r r ? vision , love of ighteousness and t uth , What shall we say of this experiment
r Dr. faith in the friendliness of the unive se , Ligon admits that his scheme is not
r to r . But r ni dominating pu pose , sensitivity the needs pe fect it is hea te ng to see a psy r r cholo ist of r of othe s , fo giveness , magnanimity , and g his status f ankly admit the r r Christian courage . D . Ligon believes these impo tant place of religion in the develop r traits are Christian , mentally wholesome ment of pe sonality . The laboratory and the ' w of r r ( that is , native to the endo ment man , chu ch in coope ation initiate an admirable r and based upon human and so trend . The e are many psychological data ar r r are r r cially acceptable . They e also p acticable he e that of g eat p actical help in “ r and capable of being measured . Simple and making Ch istian education in our churches ” non - technical charts presented in this vol really function for the creating of Christ r r so ume purport to measu e child en as to like attitudes and conduct . Much church determine their progress toward these Work is never checked to ascertain whether ” “ r r r ideals . In this way a pe sonality p ofile it is getting anywhe e . r r r is obtained , the total pe sonality ated , and Of cou se , one has questions about some r r ’ r purposiveness int oduced into the develop of D . Ligon s assumptions . Howeve ing of Christian personality . In analyzing strongly one may feel the barren fruits of r r r personality , physical development , intel the olde emphasis upon doct ine in cha ac r er lectual development , special aptitudes , cha t education , one must admit that it had its r are ’ acter and personality t aits all taken place . Dr. Ligon s experiment largely ig into account . nores the intellectual ( theological) aspects of r r This is an example of mental hygiene at Ch istian pe sonality development. w r r its best, ithout the negative elements Fu the , what about setting up the Be r ? found in psychiat y, with its complexes , atitudes as goals of Christian personality “ “ r . r r r r r neu oses , and the like Since cha acte is Can they eve be ega ded as scientific , the characteristic form of reaction of the since no human being can approximate ” “ r r r n ? i pe sonality, cha acte educatio consists them Sc ence demands exactness "Further ” , primarily in the formation of motives . The has the Sermon on the Mount ever been remedy for lack of proper character traits interpreted in the history of Christianity as is found not in harping negatively on the containing explicitly scientific goals ? F ur r do to deficiencies of the child, but in positively the , to so is set up the teachings and helping to strengthen his strong Christian the ethical personality of Jesus as the su r r rr r exam traits . F o , rathe than wo y the child with p eme ple of life and to neglect the his weaknesses and repress him with an redemptive gosp el of the divine- human Per
n Dr. L r of r ascetic educatio , igon p oposes a son Jesus Ch ist . A theological as well “ ” r - r d ama type of education , in which the as a scientific p oblem is involved in Dr. ’ child is given opportunity to express and Ligon s use of the Beatitudes as norms of
r r . r r r r develop his st ong t aits It is a p eventive Ch istian cha acte development . education which detects malignant symp The real problem in Christian education rr H toms in childhood and seeks to co ect them lies deep . ow shall we find a dynamic that before they become adult problems for the is strong enough to make us want to ap r r ? individual and society . Ch istian education p oximate the ideals in the Beatitudes r are r thus becomes clinical . Child en helped This is the most pe sistent moral problem of r ’ to develop the st ong est and most whole human existence . This was Paul s dilemma n r r r . some pe so alities which thei native apti in the seventh chapte of Romans Charts , w rr r tudes and endowments ill wa ant . Thei like laws , help us to detect our failures “ ” future is now — ih childhood " but who shall deliver us from the spirit of r r for r ? Such a method cha acte education de which makes failu es In this respect , r ff r r r ’ mands the coope ative e o ts of pa ents , Ch istian education s greatest task must al church and public school teachers . The ways be not only the d evelopment of char r do r r home , howeve , must the g eat bulk of acte , which is an effect , but the attachment r r his of the wo k . The teache must know pupils , life by faith to Jesus Christ as personal “ ” r r r a r. W unde stand thei p ofiles , possess knowl Saviou ithout that , we lack the most of r r edge thei abilities , special aptitudes , and essential note in Ch istianity . This book is r r r “ ” effective philosophy of life . Eve y membe not clea on the terms character and r “ r ” of the class must be known , and a clea Ch istian . Is a Christian measured only picture is necessary concerning those por by personal character? In how far are all tions of life that need changing or forming . children Christian ? Is an adult who rates r r r h The teache must also know what is to be well in cha acte , but w o is deficient in nd ? accomplished with each pupil a what les faith , Christian
r . son materials a e a means to that end Again , is there not some doubt whether i th r r r r F nally , e teache must find out whethe elief f om tensions would create a strong 60 THE ‘ PR I N CE TO N S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
? individual It is inconceivable how “ the u phy, index, and study g ide are attached . right effective philosophy of life when The family is defined as “ that fellowship r to ” A fo med can cause conflict be avoided . of parents and children created and pro r r p ope adjustment to God results in con r r r “ ” moted th ough the sha ing of vital inte ests , flicts r with the natu al man , and with the which initiates and individualizes growth social milieu of life . r ’ of pe sonality and a concomitant develop In the reviewer s judgment there can r ment of cultu e in the community . never be such a thing as a measurement of Great emphasis is placed upon the devast that something which we call Christian per ating effects of modern economic pressures
sonalit . W y hile attitudes , aptitudes , traits on , wholesome family life . A good deal of r and the like , can be easonably checked, the space is also given to the varied problems r r r eal p e son in his elation to G od is hidden r ’ of the family, such as social mobility , hype r . W e f om the scientist s view doubt, there r individualism , easy divo ce , personal irre r r fo e , whethe personality development can r sponsibility, omantic love commercialized “ , r . eve be made a science . r amusements , feminine f eedom , cynical r to It is , howeve , be hoped that Dr. i ’ soph stication , etc . L r r igon s d eam will be ealized , namely , that The Church and the family are very r eligious education , with the help of s r p y closely elated . The family has much to give cholo ma gy, y assist the churches in develop r the Chu ch . And the family needs religion ing personalities not merely with theological to help it achieve the deepest community. knowledge , but with attitudes , conduct and The modern world has great need f or such character that are in harmon with the will y r . r community spi it In the family elationship , of God and His design for human life in God w is kno n as nowhere else . The Christian r r r “ this wo ld of human elations . Chu ches r way of life is ooted in love . It is through need to perfect ways of determining spirit family nurture that the individual becomes ual development " This is a provoking book aware of this unifying process by which he r r and should be studied by ministe s , pa ents is interwoven into the fabric as a whole r and teache s . - d God is the unity buil ing power, the love HO M R I GHAU E N S . E . G . stirring power The child can find God in the communion of family life as he can THE MO DERN FAMI LY AN D THE hi ” find m nowhere else . H e in e . B R a c tt ieman C URCH y g W s o W . The Church needs to give more and better
N ew Y rk Har er and Brothers 19 8 7. o , p , doctrinal training regarding marriage and r hi This volume , by the wife of Professor H . the family elations p . It needs to educate for rr r r Wieman of the Divinity School of the ma iage , ecognize bet othal , develop r i r o r Unive sity of Ch cago , is a schola ly, c m esponsible attitudes toward marriage , r e s ui r p ehensiv , and ympathetic study of the g de newlyweds in thei adjustments , main r r r mode n family f om the cultural and relig tain the integ ity of the family , work with r ious point of view. It is written by one who unstable and b oken homes , help parents in f or r r . r to r yea s has been a p actical psychologist va ious ways develop ma ital happiness , Her information has been gained from wide assist families in the guidance of children r wi r r r expe ience th g oups of pa ents , pasto s , and youth and equip for counselling in fam and social workers . She is convinced that ily difficulties . “ f r the basic human values which have been O cou se , this is not a theological text " secured in the home and church of the past But the family is predominantly regarded r r r should be foste ed again amidst the wider f om the cultu al point of view. The crisis ”
r . r r complexities of mode n living of the Chu ch is not adequately t eated . As r She regards the family as an indispens a esult , the deeper aspects of family lif e r able institution . Its salvation rests upon a which est on evangelical faith are not r r r sound family spi it , in the making of which t eated adically enough . Too much empha the Church is essential and from which the sis is given to the demands of culture upon r r r r r r Chu ch de ives its best suppo t . the Chu ch, and its failu e is judged la gely r The volume is divided into four parts : by its cultu al inadequacy. While we agree r r r “ r ” fi st , the cultu al significance and c isis that the chu ch needs to be converted to e r of the modern family ; second , the interd its cultu al task , we also believe that the n n r pe de ce of the Church and the family, to Chu ch is judged by an other than cultural gether with the crisis of the Church and the criterion . The definition of religion is typ “ ” r r n r o icall Wiemanes ue r r r e eligious cont ibutio of the Chu ch t the y q , fo she ega ds r r r li ion r r family; third , the wo k of the Chu ch in g as an immanent eality cente ing in a r rr r r od who r in r espect to ma iage , pa ents , child en , G wo ks the human p ocesses as r r youth and domestic problems ; and fou th , the g eat Integrator. Thus family life , trends of church work with marriage and which is the most intimate fellowship among the family in various denominational and men , becomes the outpost of the activity of
- inter denominational agencies , together with divine integration which is love.
r f r r . a practical p ogram o family conse vation With some modification in its views , and An excellent and comprehensive bibliogra a balanced reading in other books such as THE PR IN CE TON S E MI NAR Y BU LLE TIN 61
- t b . rr , r B r r A g defec hose y She ill Holt, G oves , abe , Wes G eat wakenin as one sided and rmark r r r r te , Cope , Weigle, Bevan , and othe s , tive , exp essive of false and unsc iptu al r r it nevertheless provides an admirable text fo ms of eligion . for college or seminary courses on the Chapter three deals with the threats to
h r . i r r r C u ch and family The min ste who is the doct ine f om within the Church . Out r r r r inte ested in the life of his cong egation standing theologians , such as D . Tho nwell r b r r will ce tainly be stimulated y it as he and D . Dabney, p omoted the idea that bap thinks about the plans for the most funda tism makes the infant a child of the cove
of r . r mental fellowship his pa ish nant, which was likewise contra y to H M R I A E ’ . . O G H U S N . E G Calvin s conception . A move was on foot to alter the Book of Discipline inthe Assembly THE BY N DO N O o 1 59 PRE S TERIA CTRI E F f 8 . In all this controversy the Prince
L N I N O N N . B CHI DRE THE C VE A T y ton theologians , headed .by Dr. Charles L e ewis B vens S chenck. Y ale U niversit y Hodge , contended for the original Reformed Pre ss, 19 40. position . Fundamentally , inf ant baptism is r r r This is a study by Professor Schenck of elated to the P esbyte ian doctrines of sin , r Davidson College about the significance of edemption , and the conception of the
r . r r infant baptism in the Presbyterian Church Chu ch The New England theology, ep e
r Dr. i D r of Ame ica . It is a careful examination of sented by Hopk ns and . Taylor,
r r r r r r . ff sa the histo ic natu e of this doct ine , the ways ente ed the cont ove sy Su ice it to y ff r r r in which it has been a ected, and the causes that the P inceton theologians ega ded our r r members of of p esent confusion regarding it. The child en as the covenant ; those r r r autho feels that when these aspects are who died in infancy we e conside ed saved . r r n n unde stood , the p esent confusion and mis These theologia s wanted o distinction understanding regarding Christian educa made between the covenant of redemption
i r r . tion w ll be emoved . This volume is pub and the covenant of g ace They believed lished on the Samuel B. S h eath Memorial in the divine and objective nature of the u ' ’ r P blication Fund and is Professor Schenck s Christian faith , in the p omise of divine r disse tation for the Doctor of Philosophy acceptance to children of believing parents . r r deg ee . Dr. Hodge did not asse t the full regenera John Calvin believed that the children of tion of children or that they were true v n r “ ” r ’ r r belie i g p a ents were presumably Chris membe s of Christ s body ; athe , children — r r tian that is , fo given , adopted , and regen belonged to the class of pe sons whom we er ated . This point of view was held by all are bound to regard and treat as members r ’ “ the g eat leaders of the Reformed faith of Christ s Church . This is the only sense that children of believing parents are to be in which even adults are members of the ” r f r r r baptized because they are already forgiven Chu ch , so a as men a e conce ned . areto r r in r r and they be nu tu ed the covenant . The Refo med doct ine of infant baptism r The G eat Awakening, with its emphasis carries with it real implications for Chris
r r n r r . W H r B r upon adult conve sion , b ought about con tian u tu e hen o ace ushnell fi st siderable D i course o imistia N urture confusion in the Presbyterian issued his s n C n , r r r r r B Chu ch in efe ence to the conception of D . Hodge ecognized that ushnell had — infant baptism . To be sure , throughout Eu voiced a real truth the organic nature of r r r ope and the Ame ican colonies the doctrine human life . D . Hodge thought that the r r was abused and pe verted . Formalism intimate relation between pa ents and r - obbed it of vital content . The Half Way children was of such a nature that the life
Covenant effected a dualism in church mem of one was continued in the other. The des hership which virtually amounted to a two tiny of the child was involved in that of the t— fold covenan the one external and the parent . While he did not agree with the r r ’ othe inte nal . Further, the emphasis in the apparent naturalism in Bushnell s thesis , he Great Awakening was increasingly put upon nevertheless did agree with its more pro r c r expe ien e . One g ound only was emphasized found truth regarding the organic nature of for r r for the ecognition of persons as children of the Christian family . The g eat means r God . The fact that a child was a child of the salvation of the children of the Chu ch r r believing pa ents , included in the covenant was Christian nurture . Dr. Samuel Mille r r r p omise of God , made no difference . Child asserted that if infant baptism we e p op ren r n r r r we e lost until by co scious conversion e ly imp oved , if the p ofession which it they had come out of darkness into light . includes and obligation which it imposes
Thus the Reformed principle regarding the were suitably appreciated and followed up , r p esumption of regeneration in the case of it would have few opponents . r r r r child en of the covenant, based upon the This is a volume eve y P esbyte ian r r are covenant p omise , was largely displaced by minister should read . Many q ue ies rr r the cu ent practice of recognizing as raised today in reference to the natu e , “ r n n . Ch istians o ly those who gave credible place , a d obli g ation of infant baptism ” v r r r e idence of egene ation . Many of the Old With men like Brunner se iously question r r r m h n a i r School pa ty ega ded the e p ases of the ing i fant b ptism , it is h ghly impo tant 62 THE - PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN that this doctrine be rethought in the light tion and week- day religious education are
. r i . r of the mode n situation . What is the rela d scussed We have he e 392 pages of solid tion between evangelism arid nurture What material— plus an index— d ealing largely ’ a r i r W i r is the st tus of the Chu ch s ch ld en, and th the histo ical and philosophical aspects ? r of Christian homes If the Christian home of gene al education . a r has f iled to fulfill its baptismal vows , must The final conclusion of the autho is that r s lel ri i for we ely o y upon evangelism , as many Ch stianty is the end of the quest churchmen did during the Great Awaken philsophical certainty in educational pro ? r re B r not ing Has Ch istianity reached a place in cedu . ut his Ch istianity is that of r or r mode n society where it must regard itself scholasticism , of Ch istian humanism , r or r n or r - as a secta ian movement and win even its whether past p ese t , of p esent day - r so called formal members by a radical con rel igious idealism . It is not a Ch istianity ? n r of version What about the covenant promises of rules ; or is it a p ogram ethics , a ? r or of of God Is the child born to Christian system of wo ldly institutions , a set ? “ ” or parents Christian If the children of be cunningly devised fables , simply a ” lieving parents are included in the covenent way of life f or us to live . It is found od not r r - r r of G , must ministe s and chu ches in the God initiated gospel of g ace , esting take this fact into account in all their solidly upon the infallibility of the Scrip ? r church work Dare Presbyterian evangel tures and the deity of Ch ist. ’ ism ever despise God s baptismal grace ? The Christian believer is not shocked by A study oi this volume will assist many a present conditions for he knows that the “ confused minister in coming to a satisfac Scriptures tell us of nothing better than a tory conclusion in reference to infant bap continuation of the present disorganization ‘ — r tism and its implications for Christian and chaos moreove , it will even wax ’ — r r . nurtu e . worse and wo se ( II Tim until the to H M R I GHAU S E N . E . G . O set time appointed when he shall come ” reign in righteousness ( p . Y A E R PHI LO S O PH , EDUCATI ON N D C Democracy is the best attainable human Y B R obert L Co ke Grand r r TAINT . y . o , solution of the p oblem of ideal gove nment R a i Z ond er an 1 “ r p d s, v , 940. and society. Still it is necessa ily a com r — ou r r promise and founded on comp omises P ofesso Robert L . Cooke , the Associate ‘ ’ — inher r r o checks and balances because of an P ofesso of Education in Wheaton C llege , ” r ent lack in man himself . Illinois , has p esented us a timely book . “ ” or non r r r Will we choose the way of faith The wo d ce tainty is evidently inse ted ? ’ faith in educational philosophy The long in the title because of John Dewey s book , r The uest or Certaint m quest for certainty has ended in mode n con " f y, and because od r ern educational theory and practice is so fusion and despai . The only hope is in W largely influenced by his philosophical nat turning to the Source of all isdom and his r li m Word . u a s . r r r There are real probl ems confronting the This volume deals athe la gely with the history and the problems of philosophy . One educational world today, such as , ( 1) What r r is the primary purpose of education ? ( 2) could wish that a mo e elabo ate system of re Is education to be directed toward some Christian education could have been p far r r p re- determined end or is the end inherent sented . In how can a adical Ch istian ? philosophy of education be promoted by the in the process of educating ( 3) Is it cer ’ ? r tain that the state is the best agency for state Granted the truth of the autho s r do ? thesis what shall the evangelical Chu ch giving real education to its citizens ( 4) , ? Is not the state taking upon itself a truly now In the light of the fact that the r staggering responsibility in insisting that author definitely excludes such autho s as Ko r ? Richardson Horne , Mc y, Squi es and education be made compulsory ( 5) Is the , r r aim of education the general or the indi others from his list of t ue Ch istian edu to r ? r cators because they do not seem ag ee vidual welfare , or both ( 6) Shall cultu e , a r ff or with his fundament l theological position p actical e iciency , a combination of both r r be the goal of education ? ( 7) Shall the raw regarding the natu e of Ch ist and the r r r to r r or Sc iptu es , we have a ight inqui e a bit material of life be conside ed good , evil of r r ? 8 r further as to the typ e Ch istianity he neut al ( ) Shall education be conce ned r r r . , with life here and now or with the future or regards as a c ite ion This is , howeve a r in with both ? These are but a few of the sig nificant book and one that g apples telligently and masterfully with the issues questions which this book seeks to discuss . r in modern educational philosophy . The volume is indeed weighty . Refe ences HO M R I G HAU S E N . E . G . are made to educational philosophers of note in this and preceding ages . Idealism , ma O BO O O F CHRISTIAN i r ro THE " FO RD K terial sm , evolutionism , democ acy, p “ ” ited b Lord D avid Cecil. VERSE . E d y gressive education and the essentialist 8 . O x ord Press 5 60 pp . $ movement are copiously and masterfully f , r r r The Christian who wishes to have his treated . Modern t ends in cha acte , voca
64 THE PRINCE TON S E M INAR Y BU LLE TIN
so much as heard whether there be any from the first permanent English settle H ” oly Spirit. s ment to the present time . DWAR D H R . BE T E RO S. D r. Foote has sought a middle course be r tween the mo e involved method of Dr. LY N E W N L N L O B n r ec r EAR E G A D PSA M DY . e son and the pu ely an dotal t eatment B Hamil y ton C. Macd u all r er h h o g . S tephen of hymns and hymn w it s w ich , as e D a e Press. y says , so quickly degenerates i nto a cata logue of names to which are appended D r ear r a t r u ing the past few y s inc e sed in e r for m sto ies ho iletical use . in ar N ew r est e ly England Psalte s and hi u B o T s vol me offers encouragement to one Hymn o ks has been in evidence . To date who is concerned with the present state of not r e u many maste pieces have be n nearthed , i r . r r er i hymnody in th s count y Examples of ea ly but seve al int est ng, and sometimes hu “ hymnody, such as the picturesque Lamen morous r , examples have been b ought to tation ” i , wh ch describes the death of Judith . r m light Pu itan Psal ody has been more B rock , fortunately could not be found in often laughed at than praised . F or various r r - da O ne r any standa d p esent y hymnal . easons, development was slow and limited , stanza will suffice to illustrate this outgrown and practically nothing was created that m : r type of hy n would be conside ed useful today . ’ ’ r ri “ r r In p epa ng this short historical appre She s gone , she s gone , the pa ents mou n, ’ ciation ar N ew l il r cr of e ly England Psa mody , D r. She s gone , the ch d en y; Macdougall apparently has approached his While my affected bowels yearn a m t sk with devotion . F or Am erican church With pangs of sy pathy. musicians he offers examples of earl f r y O cou se , it is easy to pick out lines or Psalmody not readily obtainable outside of r r h ve ses f om old hym ns w ich amuse , but , our “ a few of reat libraries . g Dr. as Foote points out , It is far more F or - i the non musical layman , th s book important to understand the profound relig holds little interest because it presupposes ious emotion which breathed in the old r conside able knowledge of music . All in all psalmody ; the newly awakened faith which it is an interesting but not an indispensable found utterance in the hymns of Watts and to l r r addition the ib a y. Wesley ; the stirring of the heart aroused AVID HU G H NE - D JO S . by camp meeting hymns ; the development O f a fresh idealism which speaks in the ever- widening stream of nineteenth century THREE CENTURIE S O F AMERICAN ” HY N hymnody. O DY . B Henr Wil er y d F te. M y oo r r In his last chapter, Ret ospect and P os Harvard U niversit Pre y ss. ” i pect , thu author makes statements wh ch The three hundredth anniversary of the are most pertinent to those of us who are publication of The Bay Psalm Book in concerned with the texts and musical set 1640 r r r , the fi st book p inted in English tings of hymns today. His ideas a e sane i N r m r r i r speak ng o th A e ica , fu n shed the and clea ly stated . stimulus for a series of lectures delivered This book is an invaluable addition to r r mm r r at Ha va d Su e School of Theology in the libraries of ministe , musician , and lay
1936 H. July , , by W . Foote . The material student of hymnology. It cannot but quicken presented at that tim e has been rearranged the interest and stimulate many to a more and greatly enlarged in an attempt to pre critical knowledge of the present status of an u sent adeq ate account of the development American church song . A of songs f or worship in the United States D VI D HU G H JONES .
The TheologicalBook Agency AN OF F I CI AL OR GAN or PR IN CE TO N THE O LO G ICAL SE MIN AR Y PR I E T ON N ew E R S E NC , J Y
The Theological Book Agencyis eager to serve all alumni of our
S e r Y u ma an thr us allsta ar and c rre tre s mina y. o yobt i ough nd d u n ligiou
- W e a ks st ai to an ter t re et er new or sec . li a u , i h ond hand m il boo po p d y
artof e W e als urc se se u es and e re rares. p th nation . o p ha u d vol m nti lib i