. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. stimulating and interesting and were the chiefattraction for most of the readers of the Review. Theycould always be counted on to pay their respects to theliberal theology of the day—and to good account. Whenin 1897, the Churchs mind reverted to the birth ofMelanchthon four hundred years ago, one was not sur-prised to be treated with a symposium on Melanchthonand the Church Fathers. When Hastings Bible Dic-tionary appeared in 1901, it was to be expected that sho
. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. stimulating and interesting and were the chiefattraction for most of the readers of the Review. Theycould always be counted on to pay their respects to theliberal theology of the day—and to good account. Whenin 1897, the Churchs mind reverted to the birth ofMelanchthon four hundred years ago, one was not sur-prised to be treated with a symposium on Melanchthonand the Church Fathers. When Hastings Bible Dic-tionary appeared in 1901, it was to be expected that should expose its rationalism and condemnthe choice of scholars of the liberal school by its editors,to deal with vital subjects, while they excluded writersof conservative tendencies. All through the followingyears, the reader was sure to have surprises sprungupon him by the introduction of some new feature. Inthe January issue of 1902, for instance, there appeareda most interesting Editorial Survey of the Year surveys appeared for the next three years,and much regret was expressed when the editor failed. A Face; Familiar To Children EDITOR AND SUNDAY SCHOOL LEADER 81 to continue to interpret leading events in like fashionin the years that followed. When in 1903 he was elected President of the GeneralCouncil, as Dr. Jacobs correctly says, We can trace adifference between the policy pursued when the respon-sibility for his utterances was limited chiefly by his in-dividual obligations and that which guided him from1903. He writes from that time more with the con-sciousness and authority of official position, and thatthe Journal which he edits is regarded as an organ ofthe body over which he presides. A third important place he was asked to fill at themeeting of the Council in 1895 was that of membershipin the Church Book Committee, which later also madehim a member of the Joint Committee which producedthe Common Service Book and Hymnal. In thissphere, he proved to be
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