» V • ' ’ ; --.i' :\- i . V m I X I'; V . l)'l ^ • The Princeton Theological Review EDITED FOR THE F AC U L T Y J. Ross Stevenson Francis L. Patton Benjamin B. Warfield John D. Davis John DeWitt Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr. Geerhaedus Vos Robert Dick Wilson William P. Armstrong Charles R. Erdman Frederick W. Loetscher J. Ritchie Smith Caspar Wistar Hodge J. Gresham Machen Henry W. Smith Oswald T. Allis Joseph H. Dulles BY Oswald T. Allis VOLUME XVII 1919 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS i ARTICLES The Present Crisis in Ethics. By William Brenton Greene, Jr.. i Christian Education and Presbyterian Tradition. By George Johnson 19 The “Higher Life” Movement. By Benjamin B. Warfield 37 Prayer. By J. Ritchie Smith 87 Princeton Seminary’s First Foreign Missionary—Henry Wood- ward. By Henry Woodward Hulbert 98 Heroes. By Charles Wadsworth, Jr 118 Hadadezer or Ben-hadad. By John D, Davis 173 The Statue of Shalmaneser at Asshur. By John D. Davis 184 Scientific Biblical Criticism. By Robert Dick Wilson 190 The Comment on John ix. 38 in the American Revised Version. By Oswald T. Allis 241 The Crises of Christianity and their Significance. By William Brenton Greene, Jr. 345 Thomas Chalmers. By Clarence Edward Macartney 365 Scientific Biblical Criticism—Article Two. By Robert Dick Wilson 401 Human Nature and Christian Nurture. By George Johnson 457 A Study in the Ethics of Shakespeare, By Charles A. Mitchell 473 Albrecht Ritschl and His Doctrine of Christian Perfection. By Benjamin B. Warfield 533 Recent Criticism of the Book of Acts. By J. Gresham Machen 585 A Study in the Ethics of Shakespeare—Article Two. By Charles A. Mitchell 609 Romans xii. 1-8—Translation and Interpretation. By Samuel T. Lowrie 627 NOTES AND NOTICES The Word Trun in Daniel xii. 3. By Robert Dick Wilson 128 The Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, Vol. II. By Benjamin B. Warfield 500 The Use of “God” and “Lord” in the Koran. By Robert Dick Wilson 664 “The Shorter Bible.” By John Fox 650 Nelson and Sons on John ix. 38. By Oswald T. Allis 662 BOOKS REVIEWED ^Abingdon War-Food Book 339 Agar, Democracy and the Church 518 Anthony, The Conscience and Concessions 319 Bailey, Stories for Every Holiday 339 Barrow, The Validity of the Religious Experience 673 Bashford, The Oregon Missions 338 Bassett, A Handbook of Oral Reading 693 Bennett, Challenge of the Church. Rationalism Refuted. 159 Boreham, The Silver Shadow and Other Day Dreams 694 Box, The Virgin Birth of Jesus 152 Brandenburg, The Philosophy of Christian Being 139 Buckler, National Sentiment and Patriotism in the New Testament. 517 Burnside, The Acts of the Apostles 151 Burroughs, The Valley of Decision 154 By an Unknown Disciple 679 Campbell, The Second Coming of Christ 330 Chafer, He That is Spiritual 322 Clark, Digest of the Presbyterian Church of Korea 338 Covington, Fundamentals of Debate 167 Dau, The Leipzig Debate in 1519 682 De Zwaan, Het Evangelie van Lucas 142 Doyle, The New Revelation 134 Eaton, The Science of Mental Healing 165 Eiselin, The Psalms and Other Sacred Writings 141 Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. Vol. X 312 IV BOOKS REVIEWED V ^ Enelow, The War and the Bible 5i8 I , Faunce, Religion and War 37 Fiske, The Experiment of Faith 164 Fiske, The Faith by Which We Live 5^9 ^ Flewelling, Philosophy and War I 39 Gardner, The Unrecognised Christ 524 George, Lectures in Pastoral Theology 335 Goddard, Love in Creation and Redemption 160 Greenfield, Sumptuary Law in Niirnberg 165 Halstead, The Tragedy of Labor 321 Harper, The New Church for the New Time IS9 Hayes, The Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Acts 675 Hills, Familiar Talks on Sermon Building 335 Horne, Jesus—Our Standard 5^5 Howell, The Privileges and Immunities of State Citizenship 165 Jefferson, Old Truths and New Facts 163 Johnson, Suffering, Punishment and Atonement 669 Jones, Ornamented Orthodoxy 336 Joseph, The Coming Day 695 Keedy, The Exceeding Worth of Joining the Church 338 Keeler, Heart Messages from the Psalms 686 Kelley, A Salute to the Valiant 337 Kensington, Talking With God 685 'Kirk, The Consuming Fire 686 Lansing, Why Christianity did not Prevent the War 513 Leaf, What is this Spiritualism? 513 Lewis, A Handbook of American Speech 693 Longacre, a Prophet of the Spirit 141 Lowrie, The Joyful Hours of Jesus 162 Martin, The Oracles of God 139 McKeever, Man and the New Democracy 515 Methodist Year Book, The 685 Miller, Memory, Work and Promotion Requirements 685 Mythology of All Races. Vol. HI 165 Nandikesvara, The Mirror of Gesture 168 Newton, The Sword of the Spirit. Britain and American in the Great War 520 Nicoll, Reunion in Eternity 520 Norlie, Principles of Expressive Reading 165 Palmer, Altruism. Its Nature and Varieties 514 Paul, The Way of Power 158 Pelsma, Oral Reading and Public Speaking 165 Perla, What is National Honor? 694 Presbyterian Handbook, The 684 Prestige, The Virgin Birth of Our Lord 687 Price, Ancient Peoples at New Tasks 162 Quayle, The Dynamite of God 335 Robertson, Making Good in the Ministry 160 VI BOOKS REVIEWED Robinson, The Life of Paul 680 Sailer, American Tilhers 338 Schaffer, The Greater Task: Studies in Social Service 685 ScHENCK, The Apostles’ Creed in the Twentieth Century 522 Scott, C, E., China from Within 155 Scott, J. R., The Technic of the Speaking Voice 693 Shannon, The Breath of the Winds and Other Sermons 524 Sherman, On the Manuscripts of God 164 Sibley, Pathfinders of the Soul Country and Other Sermons for Today 523 Smelzer, Unemployment and American Trade-Unions 321 Smith, C. A., Keynote Studies in Keynote Books of the Bible 677 Smith, D., The Atonement in the Light of History 327 Smith, T. G., Christianity and Mormonism 515 Snowden, The Coming of Christ: Will it be Premillenial? 330 Speer, The New Opportunity of the Church 526 The Pulpit in War Time 522 Texts for Students 680 Torrey, The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith 329 Ubbink, Het Eeuwige Leven by Paulus 143 Vance, The Life of Service 525 Versteeg, The Modern Meaning of the Church 685 Vincent, In the Rift of the Rock 336 Walker, A History of the Christian Church 153 Wareing, The Evangelism of Jesus 337 Watkins, Public Speaking for High Schools 165 Wild, The Evolution of the Hebrew People 141 Wilson, America Here and Over There 338 Wood, The Living Christ and Some Problems of To-day 675 CONTRIBUTORS Alus, O. T., 241-311, 662-668, 686-692. Bryan, W. S. P., 669-673. Davis, J. D., 139-142, 173-183, 184-189. Erdman, C. R., 158,-160, 335, 337-339, 684-686. Fox, J., 650-662. - - Greene, B., 1-18, I . W. Jr., 137 139, 164-165, 319-322, 345-364, 5 I 3 5 9 Hodge, C. W., 327-334, 519-520. Hulbert, H. W., 98-117. Hunt, T. W., 167-168, Johnson, G., 19-36, 457-472. Johnson, W. H., 673-675. Loetscher, F. W., 153-4. Lowrie, S. T., 627-643. Macartney, C. E., 365-400. Machen, j. G., 151-153, 585-608, 675-680. Mitchell, C. A., 473-499, 609-626. Montgomery, R., 154-155, 694-695. Paist, B. F., Jr., 134-137, 155-158, 162-163, 680-684. Smith, H. W., 165-167, 168, 693-694. R., 160-162, - Smith, J. 87-97, 163-164, 335 337 , 339, 520-526, 684. Tomkins, D. B., 526-527. Vos, G., 142-151. Wadsworth, C., Jr., 118-127. Warfield, B. B., 37-86, 312-319, 322-327, 500-512, 533-584. Wilson, R. D., 128-133, 190-240, 401-456, 644-650. Articles are indicated by black-faced type; Notes and Notices by italics. — The Princeton Theological Review JANUARY, 1919 THE PRESENT CRISIS IN ETHICS* “It is a fact worth weighing,” says one of the most learned and judicial of our present day writers on Christian ethics, “it is a fact worth weighing that for some two hundred years or more after the Reformation and the rise of modem philosophy no one ever questioned the supremacy of the Christian ethic, though from every other quarter inroads were being made upon the received traditions.”^ So recently, indeed, as 1873 Mr. John Stuart Mill, the ablest as well as the fairest of modem unbelievers, wrote as follows: “About the life and sayings of Jesus there is a stamp of personal originality combined with profundity of insight, which, if we abandon the idle expectation of finding scientific precision where something very different was aimed at, must place the Prophet of Nazareth, even in the estimation of those who have no belief in his inspira- tion, in the very first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast. When this preeminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer, and martyr to that mission, who ever existed upon earth, religion can not be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity.”^ Nor are such testimonies exceptional. Un- believers in dogmatic Christianity from widely different standpoints have united in exalting its ethics. When the charge was brought by Christians that the bitter attacks on Christian dogma must issue in the overthrow of Christian morality, it was hotly resisted by scientists and by litera- * An Address delivered in Miller Chapel on September 26, 1918, at the Opening of the One Hundred and Seventh Session of the Seminary. ^ Thornton, Conduct and the Supernatural, p. 3. 2 Three Essays on Religion, p. 253. 2 THE PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL REVIEW teurs like Huxley and Matthew Arnold.