Congress Paocansswe RevetatioN.—Dy Vivien Phelps Watts, London. 17.
It As a strange fact, and rather a pathetic one, that writers such as the
assumption that all Suther base their arruments, on the) ference have moved, and theology has stood still. Best of his references to an early Victorian theology. There is a monotonous recital of parallels of virgin births, resurree~ ions, creations, and annunciations, discovered by the comparative mythologists, as though every parson has forgotten" wading through Frazer's "Golden Bough" and the Babylonian and Assyrian myths, Those who take up this book fo read should read] alongside It the stories about the! Eettlement of the Israelites in Canaan, and there they will find the purer Yel revelation, or progressive revelation Through the Jews continually in opposition to the nature and vegetation. ly cults of the Canaanites.
When com-! paring myths with the parallels in the Bible, the full context should be! studied, and the differences surround-cai ing the development wil be obvious. Teols stated that parallels to the turning of Moses" rod into a serpent are not known—yel in the Bible story self we are told that the magicians Egypt did the same with their en-' clientments, Readers in Shanghai have only to recall a certain sermon published a few months ago on Jonah
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