“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s private life.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 160w. |
Dods, Rev. Marcus. Bible, its origin and nature. [**]$1. Scribner.
“This is the first volume published on the foundation which Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.
[*] “The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 9: 741. O. ‘05. 670w. |
“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears as to the critical study of the Bible.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w. |
“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to exaggeration and lip service.”
| + + | N. Y. Times 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 750w. |