GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, NEW YORK Publishers in America for HODDER & STOUGHTON Selected and Arranged by WILFRID M. SHORT THE MIND OF ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR Selections from His Non-Political Writings, Speeches and Addresses, No contemporary British statesman or man of letters is better known by name to the American public than Arthur James Balfour, and yet it is true that until his visit to this country at the head of the British War Mission the average American had no real idea of the remarkable calibre of this extraordinary figure of English life. This book, based upon a volume issued several years ago, gives a very interesting insight into the mind of a man whose life-long hope has been the closer union of the English-speaking peoples. The chapters, drawn from his writings and public utterances, cover an amazing field of politics, literature, art, education, history, religion, music, philosophy and science. A special section on Germany has been added from his recent writings. The book reveals one of the most able and unusual intellects of our day. By F. B. SHORT CHRISTIANITY: IS IT TRUE? Foundations and Facts Simply Stated. 12mo, Net, $1.50 The author presents a plain, simple and direct statement of the foundations and main facts of Christianity. A statement which he hopes will provide his readers with reasons for their Faith sufficient for them to stand firm against the many hostile and conflicting influences by which they are surrounded, or at least to make them realize that belief in Christ is not to be lightly thrown aside. By RT. REV. J. H. BERNARD, D.D. STUDIA SACRA Archbishop of Dublin 12mo, Net, $1.50 Contents: The Descent into Hades and Christian Baptism; The Symbolism of Baptism; The Baptismal Formula; The Gates of Hades; St. Paul's Doctrine of the Resurrection; The Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ; The Virgin Birth of Christ; The Magnificat; The Death of Judas; The Connection between the Fifth and Sixth Chapters of 1. 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CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER 1918 THE FAITH OF A CHRISTIAN TODAY "In all my spiritual dealings with myself or others I recognize this fact: that in the real things of the spirit the issue at last, and the decision, lie between the 'things' and the spirit. Be spiritual and you will know the essential things. Receive, believe, do-and you shall know; the spiritual things verify themselves to the spiritual man. The greatest danger and abuse of such a principle, and consequent source of illusion and delusion is to take or apply it individually, exclusively, or partially. Spirit is the most social, inclusive, and unifying-the most semper, ubique, et ab omnibusthing in the world. In its most elemental principle or quality of Love, it is identical with unity, universality, and continuity. All confusion, disorder, error, lawlessness, evil, or sin in the universe come from breach of it. To think, feel, wish or will 'in the spirit' -is to do so collectively or together. So the Church which is'God, in Christ, by His Spirit, in the world,' is primarily and essentially One and Catholic. Even its Holiness or any other possible designation of it-is already implicitly included and expressed in its Unity: Holiness and Unity are identical, they are What God is." By William Porcher DuBose. Died August 18, 1918....577 HOPES FOR THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF RUSSIA "There are great possibilities and great hopes for the Church.. Having lost the seemingly brilliant and secure existence it had known under the Autocracy, one which in reality handicapped it, making it the servant of the State, the Church has by its freedom gained new powers of influencing the masses and an opportunity to disclose new sides of its nature. As the decrees of the new civil authorities have banished religious instructions from the schools, it becomes necessary for the Church to teach its flock the truths of the Russian Orthodox Church in its parishes, which makes it in the truest sense of the term one great school. . . . In descending to the masses it will directly meet with a more powerful response, both spiritual and material, than it could ever have won by indirect means through the aid of the civil authorities. The great masses of the people will recognize in the Church their true mother, they will care for its needs lovingly, they will give it their warmest assistance and support." By Leonid Turkevich, Dean of the Russian Cathedral in New York, and Member of the Holy Sobor of all the Russias......590 BOSSUET'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH LEIBNITZ ON REUNION IN THE TIME OF LOUIS XIV "Protestants formed one idea of the exercise of infallibility; to this the Catholic Church opposed another. This was a matter of discussion. But in addition to discussion there is the fact: the Catholic Church practises infallibility, it practises it in accordance with the principles offered to Protestants through Bossuet. On the other hand it is not clear that Lutherans practise theirs. This practice can only unite or exclude. Protestant infallibility has not succeeded in doing either. Its reunions have been questionable and equivocal, its exclusions contested and transitory. . . . A means of realizing unity must be found, a means not resting alone on good-will, real or otherwise, and, when it is found, there must be submission to it. . . . "The Church,' said Bossuet, 'will under the pretext of reunion do nothing which would overthrow the foundations of unity.' By L. Dimier, Assistant Professor at the University of Paris.610 CHRIST-THE CONSTRUCTIVE REVOLUTIONARY "Christ was no iconoclast, no lover of destruction for its own sake; but He was a revolutionary. To call Him a constructive revolutionary, with the emphasis on the word 'constructive,' fairly sums up the attitude He adopted towards the institutions and ideals of His time. This fact stands out with startling clearness from the pages of the Gospels, but the whole habit of thought in the organized Churches is so different that to stop and emphasize it is by no means superfluous. Throughout Europe Christianity is regarded as the champion of the obsolete, whether politically, socially or intellectually." By Burnett H. Streeter, Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and Canon of Hereford... .629 A CONSTRUCTIVE GOSPEL "Within the Church there were tendencies which made for division and our Evangelist seems to set himself to the task of synthesis ... to combine both sides: he will recall facts, but he will so represent and interpret them that they shall symbolize spiritual ideas. . . He certainly does want to say strongly and unmistakably 'every fact in the Lord's life illustrated a principle of the work of the Father, and ideas, if they are to be the certain guide of life, must be rooted in facts.' . . . There is always a tendency in religious minds to be drawn in one of two directions: one class of minds is drawn to mysticism, to the personal relations of the individual to a personal God who reveals Himself to His worshipper in direct spiritual intercourse: another class is drawn to a sacramental and institutional religion. . . . Once again our Evangelist comes to our rescue: for he insists that this is a false antithesis, that a complete religion will combine both, that the individual mystic is kept true to Christ by remaining in the society and nourishing his life on the sacraments, and that the sacramentalist must pass beyond the material to the Spirit which giveth life." By Walter Lock, D.D., Warden of Keble College, Oxford, England.. ..641 CONTINUITY IN THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY "One great blunder of the revolutionary period of the Church in the sixteenth century was a refusal to see not only the value but the essential value of corporate unity in the Christian system, and along with this the necessity of perpetuating the elasticity of earlier ages of Church history. An iron-handed rigidity has been inherited from the Reformation; the unity of the Church has been placed in a subordinate position, its organization has been so elevated that any stereotyped function is regarded as of such vital importance that the unity of the Church must be sacrificed to preserve it. This is nothing short of a reversal of the New Testament position. . . . The instinctive surbordination of administrative life to the purpose of Christ's desire to keep humanity to the ideal of brotherhood prevailed through many centuries of Christian history; at the Reformation it was lost through partisanship, through the belief that people would be better off if they did not associate with those whose moral or intellectual standard they regarded as inferior to their own. It is hard to see where there is any Christian foundation for this conviction." By W. L. Bevan, Ph.D.. THE CHURCH AND THE MINISTRY .657 "I say nothing of a larger union which contemplates action in conjunction with the Church of Rome. Its attitude seems an insuperable obstacle to common action, and yet Church Union By the Most Rev. Henry Lowther Clarke, D.D., D.C.L., 678 THE INCARNATION, THE CHURCH AND THE PRINCIPLE "The faith in the personal God, in God incarnate in Christ, By J. K. Mozley, B.D., Dean of Pembroke College, Cam- .694 THE LIMITATIONS OF THE MYSTICAL METHOD IN "From all this it stands out very clearly that no mystic can hold |