Renascent Christianity, a Forecast of the Twentieth Century: In the Light of Higher Criticism of the Bible, Study of Compartive Religion and of the Universal Prayer for Religious Unity

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Excerpt from Renascent Christianity, a Forecast of the Twentieth Century: In the Light of Higher Criticism of the Bible, Study of Compartive Religion and of the Universal Prayer for Religious Unity

It is with this hope that all will bid God-speed to this potent new volume."

2. - "This volume called 'Renascent Christianity,' is written with prophetic earnestness. It is a plea for a return to the ' truth as it is in Jesus.' Its plea is based upon the novel ground that his teachings were eclectic and resumed in their simplicity all that was best in the world's sacred scriptures. This idea suggests that Christianity is aplrroma containing all that is best in all the other great religions of the world. The author's spirit is essentially catholic and irenic, and invites the cooperation of all liberal-minded people of whatever creed. lie is very stern in his indictment of those ' reversions,' as he calls them, that have changed the character of Christianity from its original purity. Would not 'corruptions' be a better word than ' reversions'? More bent on driving home his message than on making a literary impression, he has drawn liberally on many writers for the confirmation of his principle.

The patience and the diligence that have gone into the structure of the book cannot be praised too much, and I sincerely trust that they will meet with their reward in a wide and cordial recognition of the spirit and the purpose of his work."
3. - "The subject of the book is one which must command the interest of all men who are in earnest about religion. The care, and reverence, and scholarly training with which the author has treated it will deserve respect and, it seems to me, interest among all faithful and conservative scholars."

4. - "This is a brave, true, manly piece of work. Brave - because it is so out-spoken as almost certainly to displease those who care chiefly for conformity and quiet. True - so true in its intents and purposes as to silence all questions of entire intellectual agreement. Manly-in that its breadth of sympathy is as wide as the world and excludes no child of the Heavenly Father.

Whether it is really the original Christianity or not this author so earnestly portrays, it is something so fine and sweet that all loving hearts will wish its purpose may be realized.

I welcome its clear challenge to intellectual as well as moral seriousness. Give us all this earnestness, this conservatism, this divine and all-inclusive sympathy and we may courageously 3rd cheerfully lift up the cry-' The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,"

5. - " I respond with gratitude and 'God-speed.' So far as I gather from your line of thought and of argument, it seems to me the defense of a thesis to which the corrupters of the Religion of Jesus will find it difficult to make an answer."

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