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“A series of successive efforts to think what the gospel of Jesus really is.” Some of the suggestive channels in which effort is directed are the following: Our need of reformation, The actions of Jesus, The doctrine of prayer, Salvation of joy, The use of sin, The use of pain, Fatalism and asceticism, The devil and his angels, The scorn of superstition; Mind and disease, Fasting and temptation, and The sword and the muck-rake.
“This book is full of interest and ideas; it is well, if not too copiously written; and with many of its main arguments we are in agreement.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 646. N. 23. 1320w. |
“What has been said affords but a very partial glimpse of a laborious and fascinating discussion of many things—prayers, the ascetic life, inspiration, demonology, war and the like. Its effect is not only to stimulate thought but to excite obedience and to spread sincerity.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1000w. |
“Fulfils in a great measure the promise of the earlier work; or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that some chapters more than fulfil that promise, while in the others the shadow of modern superstition darkens the lucidity of the thought.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 500w. |
Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald H. Christie). Embroidery and tapestry weaving: a practical text-book of design and workmanship; with drawings by the author and other. il. $2. Macmillan.