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of Hope, and Other Messages from the Hills," was 

 a series of essays on the problem of life, optimism, 

 and the Christ, by Horatio W. Dresser; Rev. Sam- 

 uel Zane fatten wrote for the " Green Fund Books " 

 on " The New Citizenship," or Christian character 

 in its biblical ideals, sources, and relations ; " The 

 Message of Christ to Manhood " was the title of the 

 William Belden Noble lectures for 1898, by Alex- 

 ander Viets Griswold Allen, D. D., Francis G. Pea- 

 body, D. D., Theodore Thornton Munger, D. D., 

 and others; "The Higher Manhood; or, Character 

 through Inspiration," was explained by Rev. Duane 



C. Johnson ; Charles Franklin Thwing, D. D., 

 outlined " The Best Life " in an address printed 

 in the " What is Worth While Series " ; and Charles 

 Wood, D. D., dwelt upon " Friends and Foes of 

 Youth." Alexander McKenzie, D. D., treated of 

 the Christian life in " A Door Opened " ; Louis 

 Albert Banks, D. D., made " The Christian Gentle- 

 man " the subject of a series of addresses to young 

 men, in addition to publishing a series of revival 

 sermons iipon " Paul and his Friends" ; and " Ad- 

 dresses to Women engaged in Church Work," by 

 Bishop Henry Codman Potter, were collected into 

 a volume. George R. Crooks, D. D., wrote " The 

 Story of the Christian Church " ; Prof. R. M. Wen- 

 ley traced " The Preparation for Christianity in 

 the Ancient World " ; Lawrence T. Cole discussed 

 "The Basis of Early Christian Theism " in the 

 ' Columbia University.Contributionsto Philosophy, 

 Psychology and Education " ; and Lucius Water- 

 man, D. D., added " The Post-Apostolic Age " to 

 the " Ten Epochs of Church History." " Christian 

 Philosophy " was the title of a treatise on the human 

 soul by Rev. John T. Driscoll ; Washington Glad- 

 den, D. D., added a volume upon ' The Christian 

 Pastor and the Working Church " to the " Interna- 

 tional Theological Library " ; and " The Making and 

 the Unmaking of the Preacher" was the theme of 

 lectures on the Lyman Beecher foundation by Wil- 

 liam Jewett Tucker. "Catholic Faith and Prac- 

 tice: A Manual of Theology," came from Alfred 

 Garnett Mortimer, D. D. ; Charles C. Tiffany, 



D. D., delivered the Bohlen lectures upon " The 

 Prayer Book and the Christian Life," while "A 

 Concordance to the 'Book of Common Prayer' 

 according to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in the United States of America " was pre- 

 pared by Rev. J. Courtney Jones ; " The Making of 

 Methodism " was reviewed by John James Tigert, 

 D. D. ; "Makers of Methodism" were commemo- 

 rated by W. H. With row for the " Epworth League 

 Reading Course," for which George II. Dryer, D. D.. 

 wrote also " The Founding of a New World," and 

 "One Thousand Questions and Answers concerning 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church," by Henry- 

 Wheeler, D. D., had an introduction by Henry A. 

 Buttz, D. D.; Rev. W. H. H. Marsh claimed the 

 Baptist to be " The New Testament Church," and " A 

 History of the Baptists in the Middle States" was 

 written by Henry C. Vedder. Benjamin B. Warfield 

 delivered an address upon " The Significance of the 

 Westminster Standards as a Creed " on the occasion 

 of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth 

 anniversary of their completion, and addresses on 

 " Pioneer Prcsbytcriaiiism in Tennessee," delivered 

 at the Tennessee Exposition on Presbyterianism 

 Day, Oct. 28, 1897, were collected and published. 

 " The New Puritanism," a series of papers by Dr. 

 Lyman Abbott, Amory II. Bradford, Charles A. 

 Berry, D. D., and others during the semi-centennial 

 celebration of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 1847-'97, had an introduction by Rossiter W. 

 Raymond ; while suggestions for " A National 

 Church " were contained in the Bedell lectures for 

 1897 by William Reed Huntington. "Renascent 

 Christianity " was a forecast of the twentieth cen- 



tury in the light of the higher criticisms of the Bible 

 study of comparative religion and of the universal 

 religious unity, Anno Christ! 1898-2000, by an 

 anonymous clergyman, the author of "Ancient 

 Sacred Scriptures of the World " ; and " The Divine 

 Drama the Manifestation of God in the Universe " 

 was an attempt by Granville Ross Pike to adjust 

 the new lines of religious thought to the old land- 

 marks. Rev. Morgan Dix edited " A History of the 

 Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York." 

 compiled by order of the corporation,. Part I of 

 which covered " To the Close of the Rectorship of 

 Dr. Inglis, A. D. 1783." " Apostolic and Modern 

 Missions," as treated by Rev. Chalmers Martin, 

 belonged to the " Students' Lectures on Missions " of 

 Princeton Theological Seminary. "Christianity 

 and the Social State " were discussed by G. Claude 

 Lorimer: William Riley Halstead found "Christ in 

 the Industries " ; and " The Gate called Beautiful : 

 An Institute of Christian Sociology," by Edward 

 A. Warriner, was a practical application of the 

 principles and teachings of the Christian religion 

 along sociological lines. "Jewish Religious Life 

 after the Exile " was described by Thomas Kelly 

 Cheyne in the series of "American Lectures on the 

 History of Religions"; "Jewish Services in Syna- 

 gogue and Home " were drawn up by Louis N. 

 Dembitz ; and " Kiddush ; or, Sabbath Sentiment in 

 the Home," by Henry Berkowitz, D. D., was illus- 

 trated by Katherine M. Cohen. "The Jewish 

 Year" was a collection of devotional poems for 

 Sabbaths and holidays throughout the year, made 

 by Alice Lucas. Minot Judson Savage, D. D., de- 

 fined and amplified what he termed " Our Unita- 

 rian Gospel," and " Temple Talks," by Rev. Myron 

 W. Reed, were found to be wholly unsectarian. 

 "Current Questions for Thinking Men " were dis- 

 cussed by Robert Stuart MacArthur from a Bap- 

 tist standpoint. Woods Hutchinson, M. D., ex- 

 pounded " The Gospel according to Darwin " : 

 Morris Jastrow. Jr., added " The Religion of Baby- 

 lonia and Assyria " to the series of " Hand-books on 

 the History of Religions " ; W. Marsham Adams 

 published " The Book of the Master ; or. The 

 Egyptian Doctrine of the Light Born of the Virgin 

 Mother"; "Yoga; or, Transformation," by Wil- 

 liam Joseph Flagg, was a comparative statement of 

 the various religious dogmas concerning the soul 

 and its destiny, and of Akkadian, Hindu, Taoist, 

 Egyptian, Hebrew. Greek, Christian, Mohammedan, 

 Japanese, and other magic, the result of a quarter 

 of a century's research ; and from Herman I. Stern 

 we had "The Gods of our Fathers: A Study of 

 Saxon Mythology." A. H. Barrington attempted 

 to prove the " Anti-Christian Cults " devoid of 

 supernatural powers and contrary to the Christian 

 religion, and J. H. Bates discussed 'Christian 

 Science and its Problems." J. B. Hogan, D. D.. 

 issued a scries of " Clerical Studies " for young 

 priests ; T. Harwood Pattison wrote on " The Mak- 

 ing of the Sermon " for the classroom and the 

 study ; and John D. Davis, D. D., prepared "A Dic- 

 tionary of the Bible." The two volumes of " The 

 Biblical Museum," by James Comper Gray, a col- 

 lection of notes explanatory, homiletic, and illus- 

 trative, forming a complete commentary on the 

 Holy Scriptures, covered respectively "Gospels and 

 Acts " and " Epistles and the Revelation." " Illus- 

 trative Notes, 1899," by Jesse Lyman Hurl but ami 

 Robert Remington Doherty, on the International 

 Sunday-School Lessons for the year were issued, 

 as usual. Louis Albert Banks, D. D., devoted a 

 handsome volume to " Immortal Hymns and their 

 Story," and " Sursum Corda " was a book of praise 

 by E. II. Johnson and E. E. Ayres. intended as the 

 new Baptist hymnal ; " From Day to Day " and 

 " Cloud Rifts " were compilations by Theodora 



