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He believes what he wishes, in utter disre gard of the established rules of evidence. His speculations and guesses are more weighty with him than the testimony of eye-witnesses whose evidence was made credible by holy lives and sealed with their blood. We submit that a better and truer title for the pretentious book would be, ‘Jesus the Christ in the Fog of Psychol ogy,’ rather than ‘In the Light of Psychol ogy.’ We venture to go farther and assert that the word psychology should be erased from the title, since there is no true psy chology found in the argument- The real science of the future, we confidently antici pate, will bear us out in this judgment of the work. “The shouting and tumult of the infidel captains will die. The grass and the flower of man’s philosophy vyill wither before the breath-of the Lord. But the Word of our God shall stand forever. And Wisdom will be justified of her children who have faith fully believed and preached her divine Message.” ----------O---------- C h ristian E ndeavor Would you like an exposition of the Christian Endeavor Topic? In response to the inquiry blank which we sent out some time ago asking our subscribers to indicate which of the departments of T he K ing ’ s B usiness were most helpful to them, we received a number of replies to the effect that a department devoted to an exposition of the Y. P. S. C. E. topic would be most helpful. We give an extract from one of these letters below: “Some time ago you asked for sugges tions for improvement of the magazine, and while very little improvement could be made, yet in order to make it an all-round magazine, the introduction of an exposition of the senior and junior Christian Endeavor topics would make it absolutely indispen sable to the various departments of young people’s work. It would be worth paying a little larger subscription price for, if the editors thought favorably of such a suggestion. I wish you God’s richest bless ing upon your entire work.” In order to ascertain whether or not enough of our readers desire such a depart ment to make it advisable to take the mat ter up, we would be glad to have you advise us whether or not it would be of benefit to you.
of fact and truth in modern philosophy can be found than in the recent work of Dr. Stanley Hall, entitled, 'Jesus the Christ in the Light of Psychology.’ It is a pre tentious book of more than seven hundred pages. It empties the term -‘Jesus the Christ,’ of all historical significance. Per haps we should qualify this statement by saying that Dr- Hall admits the actual exist ence of a man Jesus and some of the facts alleged to have happened in His life. But he pronounces this a matter of no impor tance and thinks that Christianity would lose nothing of its moral truth and power if it were known that Jesus never lived. Having made this explanation, we think that we may repeat our own conviction that such a view robs Jesus of all historical significance in the life of men. Myths, delu sions .and lies do not count as formative influences toward such ends as Christianity claims to seek and to reach. “Dr. Hall admits that Jesus thought Him self to be the Son of God, but was utterly mistaken in His idea that God was a real Person. He declares that Jesus first expected a final judgment, a great inter- positibn of God, in His own day, estab lishing justice and peace on earth, but sud denly came to the conclusion that this was a mistake; that He got from the pagan religions their conception of a dying god and gave up the Jewish for a pagan way of salvation, expecting God to deliver Him when the crisis of death came. But He ‘died, thinking His second plan a more utter failure than the first had been.’ He says that the miracles of Jesus never occurred; the stories of their occurrence are only ‘allegories,’ telling us that a better, richer, freer life has actually existed and can again be in us.’ “Dr. Hall informs us that the resurrec tion of Jesus was not a fact, but merely a psychological experience in the mind of the disciples- The ‘Father’ whom Jesus bade us address in the Lord’s Prayer is only ‘the background of the universe, its source, principle, unknown reservoir, out of Which all things sprang, be it ether, energy, or something forever above all name or thought.’ ‘The true living God,’ we are informed, ‘is the moral law within.’ ‘There is no other God than Himself thus spirit ualized.’ So Dr. Hall brings us the good ( ?) tidings of ‘the dea'th of the old objec tive God, and His resorption and inwardiza- tion in man.’ The modern psychologist and the ancient ■ fool, it seems, are at one on the point that ‘There is no God.’ “The historical statements of the Gospels are accepted or cooly. swept aside by the learned, professor at his own sweet will.
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