Yale University. Charles Seribnev's Sons, New York, 1925. $1.50.
'The Bros Lectures are the outgrowth of a fund established nearly 50 years ago by William Bros,' Lieutenant Governor of IMlinois from 1866 to 1870. The fund was established as a memorial to his ton who died in 1856, It amounted to $40,000 and was transferred to the "Trustees of Lake Forest University." 'The income resulting from this large sum was to "'accumulate in perpetuity for successive periods of 10 years, the accumulations of one decade to be spent in the following decade, for the purpose of stimulating the' best books of treatises on the connexion, relation and mutual bearing of any practical defence, the history of our race or the facts in any department of knowledge, with and upon the Christian Religion." The object of the donor was to call out the best efforts of the highest talent and the ripest scholarship of the world ta] iMustrate from science, or from any department of knowledge, and to demonstrate the divine origin and the authority of the Christian and further to show and_ revelation infinite, eternal and changeable in' His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth."
was determined to give general title of "The Bros Librar; to the series of the books purchased and published with the proceeds of the Bros Fund. In accordance with the express wish of the donor, that the "Evidences of Christian of his very dear friend and teacher, Mark Hopkins, p.v., "be purchased and ever numbered and known as No. 1 of the series," the trustees secured the copyright of the work,' which has been republished in presentation edition as Volume 1 of the Bros Library. There have! been three decennial prizes for $6,- 000 each awarded to different writers and the book before us is, the third.
The New Realism It consists of 281 pages, divided into 13. chapters which' discuss "Apologetics, Old and New," "Freedom," "Revelation," "The Historic Jesus," "Religious Knowledge," ete,, and is full of the usual stuff that "is dished up to us ad nauscim in these airy days of what is called the new realism; and the unbridled liberty of so-called regious thought. The Christianity which this Yale Professor attempts to buttress is not the Christianity held by the vast majority of Christians throughout the world; and it may well be doubted when ther the donor of this fund would have established it, had he known that a book like this would ever be published with the money he gave,! for it is expressly stipulated in the agreement that the books that were to be published should "demonstrate the divine origin and' authority of the Christian Seriptures." Just as if some one should given money to amplify and explain the multiplication table or the Pons Asinorum of Euclid, and a writer should proceed to demal he table and disprove the proposition. "He might demonstrate that he was one of the Asinorum, the multiplication table and. the Pons he could change, never In this agreement it was also} settled that the "Evidences of, Christianity" of the donor's "very dear friend and teacher" Mark Hopkins, D. D. should be "ever numbered and known as No. 1 of) the series" of the Bros Library, ut in the list of books given in this volume No, 1 is not to be found! This seems. very strange, for Mark
fessor A. P. Peabody of Ha Hopkins was justly. called by Pro-University "the first Gducctors." His "Evidences" rank! with the most important works of their class and were used a3 a text hook in several colleges." As & tone cher of mental and moral philosophy he had few equcis, and it was sail that a Jeg in an' American forest with Mark Hopkins seated at one end and several students at the other constituted a college indeed
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