The Bible and Modern Life
"The Bible and Modern Life." By Clayton Sedgwick Cooper. 12mo cloth, 16 full page halftone illustrations, 224 pages. Price, $1.00 net. Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York. One of the objections which a religious infidelity brings against the Bible to-day is that it is "out of date," "a back number," "not fitted to this age." The aim of Mr. Cooper is to show that there is a type of Bible study fitted to the needs of modern times, that will awaken and hold the interest of students, and not a few are studying in many places at home and abroad. He truly says that "it is astonishing how much of our religious knowledge is taken in a second-hand fashion from books or friends." True knowledge he declares must be obtained from the Bible. First of all lies Christian experience. This movement, this awakening, over Bible study is encouraging, but the great danger is that it will become superficial. The Bible is as much God's Book for to-day, a great living need, as it was in the days of Isaiah or Paul.