p. 14 | Mountain Pathways by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

Mountain Pathways

By Editor

"Mountain Pathways," a study in the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount, by Hector Waylen. Second edition. Price $1.00 net. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., Broadway House, Carter Lane, London, E. C.

This study gives us a revised translation and critical notes of the Sermon on the Mount, and also contains an introductory letter by F. C. Burkitt, M.A., D.D., Norrisian professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge. The aim of the volume is to cover really much more than the Sermon on the Mount. It shows how that Sermon on the Mount includes and is really based upon much of the richness of the Old Testament Scriptures. There is one chapter which discusses the language that Jesus spoke. In this the author feels that the critical methods of Westcott and Hort were sometimes of a mechanical nature, and that internal evidence should have greater weight than is often given to it. He feels that a more sympathetic acquaintance with the Greek would greatly help in the understanding of the Bible, and if the whole Bible could be perfectly translated it would simply glow with light. "The Law of Marriage," "The True Nature of an Oath," "Christian Non-Resistance," "Our Continual Bread," "Treasures upon the Earth," "Judge Not," "The Way of Life and the Way of Death," "Many Powers," "The Lamp of the Body," "The Heavenly Messenger of the Kingdom," are headings to various chapters in the book, covering in a general way the great sermon. Then follow the translation and the notes. The student may not always agree with Mr. Waylen's conclusion, but he will receive many good thoughts and excellent suggestions in the reading and study of this work. It has a happy title, "Mountain Pathways," and the reader is often refreshed, as he follows in this path, in the fountains that are opened by the wayside. We are glad to get the second edition of this book, and hope that it may prove a blessing to those who walk in its pleasant lights and shadows.