BOOK NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 1, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 38.

BOOK NOTICES

By Editor

"Why Is Christianity True? Christian Evidences," by E. Y. Mullins, D.D., LL.D., President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. Christian Culture Press, Chicago, Ill. Cloth. Price $1.50.

This is a volume that can not be too highly commended. It meets the modern skeptic's objections to Christianity at every step, and meets them in a kind yet masterly and helpful way. It is one of the few books that makes you desire to read carefully every word of it, and not merely to glance it through to get the idea of the author. The author understands his subject, and goes to the very core of it, and causes you to feel, after you have read it, that you have got hold of something that you can depend upon. The great adversary has tried to swamp the world with infidelity; he has tried to make men think that it was belittling to the intellect to believe in the simple plan of salvation as told in the gospel; to borrow the language of Dr. Mullins, there has been a "scientific eclipse of faith" in the minds of a vast multitude.

"Some writers on the evidences of Christianity," says the doctor, "surrender so much that their productions seem to be books on Christian evidences with Christianity left out." And again he says: "The writer believes strongly that it is a mistake to exclude any of the essential elements from the defense of Christianity in the interest of some alleged intellectual necessity of the times. Frankness is better than reserve, for example, in dealing with miracles. The parts of revelation are joined together not mechanically but organically. One piece can not be taken away as a sample, like an ornament from a cabinet, without injury to the whole. Emphasis and proportion, of course, are always in order. There is no need to tear miracles out of their place and hurl them into the teeth of the modern scientific man. The need is rather to assert clearly and restore the issue as to miracles. The disbeliever in Christianity, when attacking miracles, as a rule, never recognizes the real point."

Taken as a whole, in meeting modern scientific skepticism, the volume is one of the best that we have seen. We commend it to pastors and Bible teachers. It has already passed into its fourth edition.