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textbook. He covered every known field and method of psychology, studying books written in English, German, and the Scandinavian languages. A careful read ing of his book will convince the student that contrary to the assertions of some who claim great scholarship, it is possible to have a psychology that is thoroughly in harmony with Christian doctrine. This is the great value of Dr. Norlie’s book: He rejects all mechanistic and naturalis tic theories. He accepts fully the fact of the personality of the soul. He finds five faculties of the soul: intellect, sensibility, will, conscience, faith. As the book was written primarily for young people of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, it has a few things that will not be of special interest to general readers. But these features do not in any wise mar the book or make it less useful. In these days of many false theories, Dr. Norlie’s vol ume is much needed and is one that can safely be used as a textbook in schools or for private study by those who wish to know the elements of a truly Chris tian psychology. 270 pages. Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis. Cloth. $1.25. —o— Martyrland B y R obert S im pson This is a tale woven around characters and incidents of the “killing time” in those years of harsh persecution for the Scottish Covenanters, 1684 and 1685. The story is of saints hunted and hounded by state troopers, hiding in caves and ra vines, meeting for spiritual uplift at secret conventicles, fired upon, tortured, and even called to lie in martyrs’ graves on the moors. Gilbert Fleming and his wife Grizzy, whose home on the desert of Kyle was a rendezvous for the refu gees, with their fortitude and simple trust in God under all kinds of trial, endear themselves to the heart of the reader. This is an excellent book to put into the hands of the growing boy and girl. 319 pages. Pickering & Inglis. Cloth. Price $1.25. —o— “And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land” (Isa. 32:2). This verse furnishes the setting for the theme of a charming English story. It describes the difference between a Chris tian who possesses a deep soul-satisfying knowledge of Christ and one who wears his religion only as a cloak. It is a splen did book with a vital message for those who realize their soul-leanness. 384 pages. Pickering & Inglis. Price $1.25. Neta Lyall B y F lora E . B erry The author, in a sweet simple manner, using an English setting, relates a lovely narrative. The central character is, a charming young woman who, in her youth, struggled against great odds. She is employed as governess in a wealthy home, and there gives a knowledge of a loving Saviour to her little charges. The book will have a particular appeal to young women who are facing a choice between everlasting love and some earth ly love wherein God has no place. 257 pages. Pickering & Inglis. Price $1.00. Her Husband’s Home B y E . E verett G reen
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characterizing feature of recent theories of the person of Christ is that they are all humanitarian. That is, Christ is not the God-Man; He is either a mere man endued with the Holy Spirit beyond mea sure, thus made one with God and the head of a new community, or He is mere ly a religious genius, a model of piety, and a supreme guide in religious life.” One of the most striking chapters of the book is that on the Essence of Chris tianity and the Cross of Christ. Those who accept the doctrine of redemption in the blood of Christ have, he declares, “a specifically different religion from those who know no such experience. It may be within the rights of those who feel no need of such a redemption and have never experienced its transforming power, to contend that their religion is a better religion than the Christianity of the Cross. It is distinctly not within their rights to maintain that it is the same re ligion as the Christianity of the Cross.' On their own showing, it is not that.” It is a great pleasure to commend such a volume to Biblical scholars. It will steady the faith of honest Christians who have been misled by modern unbelief. 4S8 pages. 9j^x6Ji inches. Oxford University Press. Cloth. $3.00. ■7—o— The Time and Place Harmony of the Gospels B y D r . G. C. S avage The author has spent years delving in to what, to most of us, is the dry dust of old calendars. He has restored the an cient Hebrew calendar and translated it into Julian time. Commenting on his work the publishers say: “The placing of these events (in the life of Christ) in both time and place, without omitting a word of the four Gospels or leaving a conflict, is a distinction claimed by no other study of this sort, so far as our information goes.” The Bagster Bible records 170 events in the life of Christ. Writers of other harmonies of the Gospels have listed many others. Dr. Savage has classified 202 events, including Pentecost, and has arranged them under ten divisions. These divisions are in turn divided into sections. The historical foreword at the beginning of each section is invaluable, throwing much light upon Old Testament types that had their fulfillment in Jesus’ day. This truly great work should be widely known. It will be very helpful to all Bible stu dents. 281 pages. Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Cloth. —o— An Elementary Christian Psychology B y O. M. N orlie Professor Norlie is recognized as an authority on the subject of psychology. He states that he examined 1,200 text books in psychology, written by 1,000 dif ferent authors, before he wrote this brief
The author, who is president of the Baptist Bible Institute, New Orleans, La., offers a commendable textbook for study in personal work. It is not only attractive to students in its logical and orderly ar rangement of subjects, but is exceedingly rich in its content. It ably treats the es sentials in the great work of actual soul winning. It is true in its cleavage to the Bible doctrine of salvation and service, and is free from any denominational or creedal bias. The illustrations are well chosen and enlightening. In a most remarkable man ner, the book covers an unusually large scope of fine analytical detail in the work of winning souls, and is particularly con structive in its dealing with the general problems and excuses which are usually offered by the unsaved* As a textbook for classes in this par ticular subject, it is one of the best which has come to our notice. We do not hesi tate to recommend it to pastors and lead ers of religious education, for organized and constructive work in the churches. 144 pages. S. S. Board of Southern Bap tist Convention. Cloth. Price 60 cents. —o^- Christology and Criticism B y B. B . W arfield This is Volume HI of the collected works of the late Dr. Warfield. The se ries is expected to be complete in ten vol umes. As the title implies, the book deals with the attacks of modern criticism upon the doctrine of the person and work of Christ. The ground is fully covered and every attack fairly met. The author finds a personal, divine Messiah foreshadowed in the Old Testament. He deals fully with every form of argument against this fact which has been advanced by such “Liber als” as Kautsch, Cheyne, Driver, Schultz, Kirkpatrick, Gressman, and their kind. Next, discussing the “misconception of Jesus, and blasphemy,” Dr. Warfield con cludes: “The judgment of unbelief on Jesus . . . . is inevitably that He was mad. As inevitably the judgment of active disbelief on Him must be that He was wicked....................Either Jesus has come forth from God, or we can scarcely avoid declaring Him possessed of the Evil One. He makes or mars the world.” With equal vigor the author deals with Jesus’ alleged confession of sin which has been so grossly exaggerated and misrep resented by critics. Likewise, he annihi lates the arguments of Schmiedel, who by his famous “pillar passages” claimed to discover, but actually invented, another Jesus behind the Gospel records. Further, he exposes the vagaries of the various and numerous forms of rationalistic, Christless Christianity of the Twentieth Century, concerning which he says: “The
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