BUILDING ERAS IN RELIGION BY HORACE BUSHNELL LITERARY VARIETIES III NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 743 AND 745 BROADWAY 1881 The articles which compose this volume are such as were designated by Dr. Bushnell himself in a list headed Reliquiæ," as the material for a book to be published after his death. The list was longer than our table of contents; but it was his desire that discrimination should be used, and only those articles published which competent judges should decide upon. It has sometimes been difficult to make a selection, and decision has especially been doubtful in cases where the subject treated was at the time of writing in a stage of only partial development in the thought of the world, and where his view, then an advanced contribution to thought, has been in a degree superseded by general progress. Such was an interesting article on "Science and Religion." The "Letter to the Pope" is included not without hesitation. Yet the peculiar circumstances which attended its publication and the qualities which make it not only interesting but extremely characteristic of its author, alike entitle it to a place in history and literature. The two articles on "Pulpit Talent" and "Training for the Pulpit" have been frequently confounded, but they are both in demand. The oration on "Our Obligations to the Dead" is inserted, notwithstanding the statement, in the Preface 32237€ |