Review of reviews and world's work . ons, ishis main thesis. Ex-perience, he contends,justifies faith thatmans creative spiritual work will prevailagainst temporary negations, and in new formsembody eternal truths. The fiftieth anniversary of modern missionsin Japan has been commemorated by a veteranand scholarly missionary there, the Rev. OtisCary, in his History of Christianity in Japan.*How Catholic missions flourished in the six-teenth century, were cruelly extirpated in theseventeenth, and revived in the nineteenth, thenthe rise, vicissitudes, and expansion of Protes-tant missions since 1
Review of reviews and world's work . ons, ishis main thesis. Ex-perience, he contends,justifies faith thatmans creative spiritual work will prevailagainst temporary negations, and in new formsembody eternal truths. The fiftieth anniversary of modern missionsin Japan has been commemorated by a veteranand scholarly missionary there, the Rev. OtisCary, in his History of Christianity in Japan.*How Catholic missions flourished in the six-teenth century, were cruelly extirpated in theseventeenth, and revived in the nineteenth, thenthe rise, vicissitudes, and expansion of Protes-tant missions since 1859, form a story of re-markable interest, especially to Americans. Theofficial documents and personal memoranda inthese two volumes make them valuable forreference. ° Modern Light on Immortality. Rv Henrv : Sherman Finuk & Co. 467 pp. $ The Problem of Human Life. Bv Rudolf Scribners Sons. 581 pp. $.1. .\ History of Christianity in .Tapan. 2 vols. ByOtis Cary. Revell & Co. -123 pp. $ REV. OTIS CARY. (.Vuthor of History ofChristianity in Japan.) SOME BOOKS OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON. 763 The necessity of reconstructing the fifth cen-tury doctrine of sin, inherited by the Churchfrom Augustine, is clearly shown by Dr. Bur-ton, the prt-sident-eloct of Smith College, in akeenly critical monograph on The Problem ofEvil, addressed to learned theologians. In hisdissection of error from the truth to which itwas wedded in Augustine, he repeatedly pointsout that evolution explains vshat Augustinefailed to explain; , sin is the culpable failureto moralize our non-moral iniieritcd animalism. With the laudable aim of laying before thegreat body of intelligent people in the English-speaking world the precise results of scholar-ship in the domain of religious thought, and thisin a brief, attractive form. Dr. Ambrose \ is editing a series entitled Modern Re-ligious Problems ^ Dr. Ernest F. Scott (QueensUniversity, Kingston, Canada) contributes t
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