religious society; and in course of time made impossible the reign of that fierce sectarian fanaticism which had prevailed so long. In this regard Jablonski's work was crowned with success. The modern Protestant Church could not now go back to the spirit of the seventeenth century. Except in some few obscure corners the custom of denouncing and cursing as heretics Christian brethren of noble faith and pure life, is dead and can never have any resurrection. So much has been gained by the labor and sacrifice of Jablonski and men of his spirit. But Jablonski had larger views and more extensive plans. He aimed not merely at a union of the Reformed and Lutherans in the German nation, but of all Protestant Christians everywhere. The unbroken union of Roman Catholicism and its overweening power throughout the modern Christian world taught so profound and penetrating a spirit as Jablonski the importance that Protestantism too should be united and should present an unbroken front to its common enemy; and he labored incessantly for the realization of this result. But in this respect he was ahead of the times; he penetrated more profoundly into the spirit of Romanism than even many Protestant theologians do now, who have only honeyed words for their ancient enemy beyond the Alps. The union which Jablonski proposed was a union of all Protestant Christians. The Church of England especially was proposed to be comprehended as an essential factor in this Christian union. Such a union, however impossible it may appear to us now, did not at all appear extravagant to Jablonski. Some of the difficulties in its way now did not appear as serious then as they do at present. There was, for instance, the question of episcopacy and of apostolic succession. That was not a question which in those days would long have kept Christian brethren apart. Jablonski himself was a Bohemian bishop as canonically ordained as any bishop could be. But that was not then a matter that was deemed to be of much importance. The question of cultus was viewed by Jablonski as rather serving to unify than to separate Christian brethren. The liturgy of the Church of England was then regarded by all parties as a good and proper order of worship: and Jablonski hoped that this would become the common order of the united church; and we have before us now a German translation of the "Book of Common Prayer" made in 1704, which no doubt had something to do with this union-movement started by Jablonski and his colaborers. Jablonski had lived in England long enough to have conceived a favorable opinion of the English liturgy. In some respects indeed he valued it more highly than he did the continental liturgies. For instance, he considers as erroneous the wide-spread notion that the sermon is the center of gravity in an evangelical act of divine worship which came into currency through the influence of Luther; and in this respect we suppose that his historian, Dr. Dalton, is of the same opinion. But it is time to bring this notice to an end. There are still many points to which we would like to call attention. But this paper has already grown beyond the length of a book notice, and we must stop. Besides, the interested reader will want to see this book and read it for himself. The style, we would add, is in the best of German. It is German as it is written now, and the intelligent student of the language will have no difficulty in understanding what is written. We commend the book to those among our readers who can read German. W. RUPP. THE MISSIONARY REVIEW OF THE WORLD. March, 1903, Vol. 16, No. 3. Editor-in-Chief, Arthur T. Pierson. Funk & Wagnalls Company, Publishers. Subscription, $2.50 per year. Single copies, 25 cents. The Missionary Review of the World continues to be the standard periodical on missions in this country and probably in Great Britain. For the student and pastor, who desire to keep in touch with the present missionary movements, it is indispensable. We question whether there is any periodical which furnishes more homiletic material with which to illustrate, enforce and demonstrate the perpetual power of the old gospel than the Missionary Review. It deals with concrete results, with actual experiences, and with living apostles. The majority of its articles are a positive apology for the religion of Jesus Christ. In the number before us we are especially impressed with a frontispiece containing the pictures of 46 Christian men and women who have been saved by means of the Jerry McAuley Mission in Water Street, New York City. They are properly designated as "forty-six living evidences of Christianity, showing the power of God to save confirmed drunkards and criminals and to keep them saved." The comprehensive scope of the Review appears in the diversity of subjects treated in the articles. The Quarries Orphans' Homes in Scotland, the Rescue Work in London Slums, The Challenge of God to the Church, Some Interesting Institutions in India, the Natives of Central Africa, the Foreign Missionary Library, the Menace of Mormonism, and the Tuskegee Institute in South Africa are all discussed in this number. The whole question of salvation in its practical phases is discussed by men and women in active work. Most of the writers come from the field and speak with authority. Let Christians in all denominations read the pages of this Review and they will be well informed on the great subject of missions and the progress of God's Kingdom throughout the world. G. W. R. HISTORISCHER SCHUL-ATLAS ZUR ALTEN MITTLEREN UND NEUEN GESCHICHTE. In 234 Haupt- und Nebenkarten. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Alfred Baldamus und Ernst Schwabe. Ausgefükst in der Geographischen Anstalt von Velhagen & Klasing in Leipzig. Lemcke & Buechner, New York, 1902. Price, $1.05. A teacher of history is frequently asked to recommend a reliable historical atlas which may be procured at a reasonable cost. There are a number of biblical atlases published in this country. The leading historical atlases, covering the ancient and modern periods, come from Germany. Most of them have the explanatory notes in the German language, while the names of the countries in the ancient and medieval periods are in the Latin, and in the modern period in the German. In this form Putzger's Historischer Schul-Atlas may be obtained from Lemke and Buechner, New York. The English student can use it without much trouble. All students will find it one of the cheapest, most reliable, and handiest atlases in the market. It contains 40 maps, with almost 200 subsidiary maps; all of which are so arranged by the use of colors and notes as to demonstrate the historical movements of a particular period. The maps of all countries mentioned in ancient history appear in succession, after them the countries of medieval and modern history. A study of a map may bring the background of history into clearer view than the reading of a volume. No student of history can do any satisfactory work without the constant use of an atlas. We consider Putzger's one of the most satisfactory, for the price, we have consulted. G. W. R. THE NEW UBLIC MERA ASTOR, LENOK TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. THE REFORMED CHURCH REVIEW No. 2.-APRIL, 1904. I. THE MISSION AND OPPORTUNITY OF AMERICAN BY PROF. DAVID S. SCHAFF, D.D. There is only one Christianity. It issued from Bethlehem and Calvary. It is one the whole world over. It acknowledges one Lord and Saviour, the Son of Man and Son of God. It yields allegiance to one supreme law. It is gladdened by one hope. True as this is, the expression " American Christianity" is justified in the sense that the Church in the United States is confronted by new problems growing out of the peculiar institutions of the land and the novel gathering together of populations within our boundaries from many lands and speaking diverse tongues. The Church historian divides the history of the Christian centuries into ancient, mediæval and modern Christianity. He does not mean by this that Christ has changed or that the law of the New Testament has undergone modification, but that there has been in some respects a three-fold apprehension of Christ and that men in different ages have thought differ * An address delivered before the Missionary Alliance of the Reformed Churches of Pittsburg and vicinity in Grace Church, Pittsburg, on the evening of November 16, 1903. ently about the best methods of advancing the kingdom of God and even about matters of faith and doctrine. In the ancient Church individual piety was emphasized and devotion to the person of Christ. Christian experience preceded the formal statement of the Christian doctrines by the Church. In medieval Ch istianity, the Church was regarded under the form of an imposing visible organism, controlling individual conduct and destiny by conciliar decrees and prelatic fulminations and priestly judgments, upon high and low, king and beggar. Modern Christianity, as represented by the Reformation, magnifies the authority of Scripture and justification by faith alone. The individual finds God in his own way and is his own priest in securing forgiveness through the merits of Jesus Christ. In these most recent times in which we live there is a mighty movement going on towards the fellowship of all believers, an effort to lay stress upon Christian living, a firm purpose to carry the Gospel to all men, and a return to the Christ as a living and controlling personality. The water that descends from the clouds is all water. fills the basins of the rivers and enables them to do various service. In the Nile it floods the fields and makes them bring forth harvests. In the Mississippi, it bears the commerce of many states. In the Penobscot it carries down the timber. In the Columbia it furnishes the home for countless millions of salmon. In the Merrimac it turns the wheels of mills. But, in all rivers alike, it offers drink and refreshment for the thirsty. So it is with Christianity. It has the power of salvation, though in different periods and in different lands it may be expressed in different forms. It It would be indeed strange, if in this new land, the latest to be discovered and to become a great Christian nation, there should not be some peculiar type of Church life and destiny intended. The diverse constituent elements of our population, the separation of Church and state among us, the varieties of Church confession and practice which are here brought together on a footing of equality, our geographical location |