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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1894. 



dences entitled " Christianity and the Christ." K. 

 Braden Moore, D. D., considered u Old Testament 

 Theology for New Testament Times"; Auson Bartie 

 Curtis bade us " Back to the Old Testament for the 

 Message of the .New " ; Benjamin Wisner Baeon, D. D., 

 examined "The Triple Tradition of Exodus"; and 

 Prof. John D. Davis was the author of a valuable and 

 scholarly work upon " Genesis and Semitic Tradi- 

 tion." " The Origin of the Pentateuch in the Light 

 of Ancient Monuments " was sought by Prof. Henry 

 Alexander White, and T. Laurie, D. D., treated the 

 same subject in "Assyrian Echoes of the Word." 

 " Studies in Oriental Social Life," by Henry Clay 

 Trumbull, cast gleams from the East on the sacred 



K2e ; Rev. George E. Merrill told the history of " The 

 irchments of the Faith "; Prof. Alexander G. Allen 

 reviewed " Religious Progress " ; and Frank M. Bristol, 

 D. D., enumerated " Providential Epochs." William 

 Jones Seabury, 1). D., wrote an " Introduction to the 

 Study of Ecclesiastical Polity " ; George IX Herron 

 delivered lectures upon " The Christian Society " to 

 the students of the Union Theological Seminary of 

 New York, and to those of other universities ; " The 

 Dawn of Christianity " was a series of studies of the 

 Apostolic Church, by Henry C. Vedder; Charles 

 Woodruff Shields, D. D., entitled an essay on the four 

 articles of Church unity proposed by the American 

 House of Bishops and the Lambeth Conference " The 

 Historic Episcopate "; Archibald Campbell Knowles 

 wrote upon "The Belief and Worship of the Angli- 

 can Church," and also upon " The Church and the 

 Greater Sacraments " ; Bishop J. Moorhouse collected 

 into a volume 1(5 addresses upon "Church Work"; 

 Mason Gallagher questioned "Was the Apostle Peter 

 ever at Rome?" George L. Curtiss, M. D., D. D., 

 wrote upon " Arminianism in History ; or, The Revolt 

 from Predestination ism," and a discussion of leading 

 Calvinistic doctrines by two doctors of divinity, Rev. 

 G. W. Northrup and Rev. Robert Watts, was given to 

 the public under the title of " Sovereignty of God." 

 Hon. R. W. Thompson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, 

 finds danger to our national institutions in " The Foot- 



Bints of the Jesuits," while Edward Brenton Boggs, 

 . D., showed " Christian Unity proved by Holy 

 Scriptures," and Amory H. Bradford edited "The 

 Question of Unity," the testimony of many voices 

 concerning the unification of Christianity. Charles 

 A. Briggs, D. D., continued his series of volumes upon 

 the Messianic ideal (begun in 1886 with "Messianic 

 Prophecy") with "The Messiah of the Gospels"; 

 " The Life and Teachings of Jesus," by Arthur Ken- 

 yon Rogers, was a critical analysis of the sources of 

 the Gospel, together with a study of the sayings of 

 Jesus ; Rev. Francis J. Hall set forth " The Doctrine 

 of Man and the God-Man " ; and Dr. Everett S. Stack- 

 pole, " The Evidence of Salvation." " The Law of 

 Service " was a study in altruism by James P. Kelley ; 

 Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., wrote upon " Christianity 

 in the Home " ; " Love made Perfect " was by Rev. 

 Andrew Murray ; " As Natural as Life " was the title 

 of studies of the inner kingdom by Charles G. Ames ; 

 Diaries Cuthbert Hall, D. D., the author of "Into 

 His Marvelous Light," questioned "Does God send 

 Trouble?" making an earnest effort to discern be- 

 tween Christian tradition and Christian truth ; Joseph 

 Smith Dodge, D. D., expressed the evolution of the 

 doctrines of the Universalist Church in " The Pur- 

 pose of God "'; and Dr. A. C. Kendrick concentrated 

 the wisdom of a long life in " The Moral Conflict of 

 Humanity, and Other Papers." David J. Burrell, 

 I). D., and Rev. Samuel Weil each took separately 

 " The Religion of the Future " for a theme, and in 

 < 'hurch history we have " The Old Church in the New 

 Land," lectures on Church history by Rev. C. Ernest 

 Smith, with a preface by the Bishop of Maryland ; 

 - A History of the Methodist Church, South," 'by Dr. 

 Gross Alexander, published in a volume by itself and 

 also included with other histories, of the United Pres- 

 byterian Church, by Dr. James B. Scouller ; the Cum- 

 berland Presbyterian Church, by Dr. R. V. Foster ; and 

 the Presbyterian Church, South, by Dr. T. C. John- 



son, to form Vol. II of the " American Church His- 

 tory Series " ; other volumes of which were " A His- 

 tory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the 

 United States," by Henry E. Jacobs ; the " History of 

 the Congregational Churches in the United States," 

 by Williston Walker; and the " History of the Uni- 

 tarians and the Universalists in the United St. 

 by Joseph H. Allen, D. D., and Richard Eddy. 1). 1). 

 " A History of the Baptist Churches in the United 

 States" was written by A. H. Newman, D. D., in the 

 " American Church Literature Series," and "A His- 

 tory of the Baptists in New England," by Henry S. 

 Burrage, D. D. " Congregationalisms in America" 

 was a popular history of their origin, belief, polity, 

 growth, and work, by Albert E. Dunning, I). !>.; 

 " The Ancient British'and Irish Churches "were the 

 theme of William Cathcart, D. D. ; and " American 

 Church History: An Historical Sketch of the Unita- 

 rian Movement since the Reformation," of Joseph II. 

 Allen, D. D., somewhat in line with which last is 

 "Old and New Unitarian Belief," by John White 

 Chadwick. " Indian and White in the Northwest," 

 by Rev. L. B. Palladino, was a history of Catholicism 

 in Montana. "A Story of Courage," by George Par- 

 sons Lathrop and his wife, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 

 contains the annals of the Georgetown Convent of 

 the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the 

 manuscript records. The Parliament of Religions 

 held in Chicago during the World's Columbian Ex- 

 position was the origin of several volumes : Walter R. 

 Houghton wrote a "History" of it; John 11. Harrow.-., 

 D. D., edited an illustrated and popular story of it in 

 2 volumes; Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones compiled ' A 

 Chorus of Faith as heard in the Parliament of Reli- 

 gions" ; " Judaism at the World's Parliament of Reli- 

 gions" comprised the papers on Judaism read before 

 it; Rev. Minot J. Savage contributed an introduction 

 to a popalar volume on the " World's Congress of Re- 

 ligions"; "Christianity practically applied " tilled 2 

 volumes. " Women in Missions " were not omitted ; 

 Rev. L. P. Mercur gave a "Review of the World's 

 Religious Congresses, Chicago, 1893," and "The 

 Columbian Congress of the Universalist Church" 

 was reported. " St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. Greg- 

 ory of Nazianzen " formed Vol. VII of a second scries 

 of "A Select Library of Niceue and Post-Nicene 

 Fathers of the Christian Church," translated and 

 edited under the editorial supervision of Drs. Philip 

 Schalf and H. Wace; Rufus L. Perry, D.D., wrote 

 upon " The Cushite," or the descendants of Hani as 

 found in the Sacred Scriptures and in the writings of 

 ancient historians and poets from Noah to the Chris- 

 tian era ; M. Mielziner furnished an u Introduction to 

 the Talmud " ; and Paul Carus gave his attention to 

 "The Gospel of Buddha" according to old records. 

 N. Notovich attempted to supply " The Unknown 

 Life of Jesus Christ " during his absence from Judea, 

 from his twelfth to his thirtieth year, from Bud- 

 dhistic legends, and J. W. Wright examined "Curi- 

 ous Facts, Myths, Legends, and Superstition^ 

 cerning Jesus." "Bible, Science, and Faith " were 

 the theme of Rev. J. A. Zahm ; Rev. Wayland Dal- 

 rymple Ball published "Evolution in Science and 

 Revolution in Religion," with other addresses ; Theo- 

 dore E. Schmauk wrote upon "The Negative Criti- 

 cism and the Old Testament.'' and " Secularism: It 

 Progress and its Morals" formed the theme of John 

 M. Bonham. William F. Warren presented - < 'onsti- 

 tutional Law Questions now pending in the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church." and Hiram L. Sibley expounded 

 "The Organic Law of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church." " The First Words from God, 1 ' by Francis 

 W. Upham,was the result of a searchinir examination 

 of the first two chapters of the Bible, with which is 

 included " The Harmonizing of the Records of the 

 Resurrection Morning." Willard II. Hinklcy . 

 amined into the prophetic character and spiritual 

 meaninsr of" The Book of Daniel '' ; Arthur T. Pier- 

 son, D.I)., the American successor of Spurn-eon in 

 the Tabernacle, England, delivered, during February 

 and March, 1893, in Scotland, a series of lectures upon 



