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for the election. The primaries were so entirely controlled by the machineelement as to exclude the better part of the citizens from participating in them. Everything was cut and dried beforehand by committees under control of the bosses, so that there was nothing left but to vote for their selected agents. The movement of the Citizens' Union was a revolt against the boss system, but owing to lack of that thorough organization that characterizes a party machine, and to the perfection of the machines already in existence, the revolt was unavailing, except as a protest against the iniquitous methods of the party leaders, and as a preparation for a more perfect and effective organization, with a view to dethroning the existing bosses one after the other, and thereby to secure future political freedom. The results thus far have shown how powerless the better elements of society are under present conditions. Altho all the preachers, with perhaps a single exception, preacht in favor of the movement for pure municipal politics and nonpartizan municipal government, and tho all the leading newspapers of reputable character favored the movement and engaged most earnestly in advocating it, its defeat was overwhelming. All of which goes to make as clear as possible the importance of the Christian Citizenship Movement, on which THE HOMILETIC REVIEW for November printed a strong article by Dr. Carlos Martyn.

A New Organization.

THERE is reported from London the organization of a new society, to be known as the "London Society of Church Beggars." It is said that the members are pledged to devote themselves, individually and collectively, to prevailing upon those who hitherto have spent their money at fairs and entertainments for charity to give a like sum directly. It is an attempt to meet what is at present a crying evil in the churches and in the communi

ties. It will be a great thing if something can be done to put an end to pious oyster-suppers and all that sort of thing, upon which people, even Christian people, have so largely depended for securing funds for benevolent objects. The objections to these methods-which will be found in THE REVIEW in an article (p. 562) by Rev. Edgar Grim Miller-are manifold. We object to them particularly because they substitute selfishness for benevolence, and cultivate self-indulgence rather than self-denial. The church needs to come down to conscientious, direct, Christian giving. Vast sums of money are thrown away by the false methods in vogue. If there are to be any more organizations, let us by all means have a "Society of Church Beggars."

The Criticisms of Princeton.

MANY of its friends have been pained by the severe criticism that has recently been directed against that long-honored institution, Princeton University, in connection with the licensing of the so-called "Princeton Inn.” It is no doubt true that a large majority of its faculty are opposed to such licensure, and that the authorities of the university are not directly responsible for it. Indeed, many will remember that several years since Princeton, under the lead of the president of the university and some of its professors, in a hardfought battle drove the saloon out of Princeton. But it is at the same time true that a very large portion of the outside public can not be made to understand the real state of affairs, and that a majority of the constituency of the university are strongly opposed to having their sons in college subjected to the temptation of the saloon, whether gilt-edged or otherwise, and that as a consequence this venerable university is liable to suffer serious injury.

True, Princeton University is not ecclesiastically Presbyterian, but it is generally lookt upon as in fact the

representative Presbyterian university of this country. Is not the institution making a blunder in not placing itself on record as unmistakably in harmony with the deliverances of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church against the licensing of liquor-selling and the drinking of intoxicating liquors as a beverage? It is understood that Harvard University has placed itself on record as against the

saloon and against intoxicating drinks, not only in the city of Cambridge, but in all college banquets; Williams College and other institutions have done likewise. Does not Princeton owe it to its young men, to its constituency, to the church, and to the public in general to place itself on record in the same way? Such a course will speedily put a stop to the hurtful criticism.

NOTICES OF BOOKS OF HOMILETIC VALUE.

THE LIFE OF DANIEL DE FOE. By Thomas Wright, Principal of Cowper School, Olney: Author of "The Life of William Cowper," etc. New York: A. D. F. Randolph Company. Price, $1.50.

This elegant octavo volume of almost five hundred pages is the standard life of De Foe, by one eminently qualified for the task of writing such a life. It lets the reader into the secrets of a great career. Daniel De Foe is often thought of-even by those fairly well acquainted with English history and literature-as merely the eccentric author of that immortal work, "Robinson Crusoe." But he wrote two hundred and fifty books, and was perhaps the most infiuential, altho the most persecuted, man of his age. He probably did more than any other man of his day to help William and Anne, whose special counselor he was, to pave the way for the free modern England introduced by the revolution of 1689. The story is a marvelous record of an intellectual giant struggling for the freedom and morality of a great people. The biographer brings out clearly the fact

that "Robinson Crusoe" was intended to represent in allegory the personal experience of De Foe in his extraordinary career, as journalist, politician, and statesman. Alongside of De Foe, among the strong men of his age, we feel constrained to place Dr. Arbuthnot, the physician and friend of Queen Anne, author of the celebrated "Life of John Bull. Everybody knows of Swift and Pope, and lauds them, but the man who has not taken the measure of De Foe and Arbuthnot knows but little of the more powerful forces at work in that age out of which came a better English freedom and morality.

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HELPFUL DATA IN CURRENT LITERATURE.

· IN THE PRESBYTERIAN AND REFORMED REVIEW for October, Prof. John De Witt, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton Theological Seminary, has a valuable article on "Princeton College Administrations in the Nineteenth Century," in which he completes the task begun in the previous number of the Review, of giving a view of Princeton College until it became Princeton University. The biographical notes on some of the leading professors of the century add materially to the value of the article, much of which is devoted to the administration of Dr. James McCosh. Dr. William Henry Green contributes a timely article to the same number on "The Dramatic Character and Integrity of the Book of Job," vindicating the book against the attacks of Dr. Karl Budde, Wellhausen, Cheyne, and others. In the same number is a review of Dr. George A. Gordon's "Immortality and the New Theology," by Prof. Arthur L. Gillett, of Hartford Theological Seminary. He summarizes the contents of the book as follows: "The argument of the book elaborated amounts to this. If God is good; if man knows the universe so well, in process and goal, that he knows how the absolute good must act in the premises; if the worth of man is such that the absoluteness of the Divine goodness would be violated if every man were not im

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mortal; then every man must be immortal. (It should be borne in mind that immortality with Dr. Gordon always means perfected, blessed immortality, at some time realized.)" As the author affirms all these positions, the conclusion is in favor of man's Immortality. "As to the 'newness' of this theodicy and its validity as proving immortality, little need be said. It is substantially the same as the argument with which Colonel Ingersoll, and men like him, have long made our public platforms redolent. The difference is simply this: Ingersoll says, 'God is a guess'; but if He be a true guess He must bring men to immortality. Gordon says, God may be held to be capable of demonstration, and then simply changes Ingersoll's judgment from the hypothetical to the categorical form. Any such line of argument, whether new or old, involves a pretty complete set of theological tenets, and its validity rests on these." Professor Gillett then summarizes the fundamental doctrines held by Dr. Gordon, (1) "respecting the Scripture"; (2) "as to the nature of God": (3) "as to the view of sin." After discussing these he concludes: "To any reader who may have a class in formal logic the book is recommended as containing a mine of old logical fallacies for practise, put into a new dress."

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[The abbreviations in parentheses indicate the section or department in which the articles
named may be found. Rev., Review Section; Ser., Sermonic; P.M.S., Prayer-Meeting Service;
Ex., Exegetical and Expository Section; L. I., Living Issues, etc.]

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

PAGE

Banks, Louis Albert, D.D., The Crowned
Heads of the Spiritual Realm (Ser.)
36: Sermonic Illustration from Cur-
rent Life (S. T.) ....61; 161; 257; 351: 451
Barrows, John H., D.D., The World's
Need of Christianity (Ser.)...
Beet, Joseph Agar, D.D., The "Father's
Business" (Ser.)
Behrends, A. J. F., D.D., The Function
and Value of Scripture (Ser.)
Blaikie, Prof. W. Garden, D. D., LL.D.,
F.R.S. E., Sowing and Reaping (Ser.)
27; Our Devotional Classics (S. T.) 148;
The Plan of the Sermon (Rev.).....
Blencowe, Rev. E., The Wise Men.
Boardman, George Dana, D.D., LL. D.,
The Beginning of Christendom-A
Wednesday Evening Lecture (Ser.)
Bradford, Amory H., D.D., A Plea for
Puritanism (Ser.)..

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Brane, Rev. C. I. B., Where to Look for
Salvation (Ser.)...

239

Burr, E. Fitch, D.D., LL.D., The Church
as Center (Ser.)

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524

523

Burrell, David James, "Take Up Thy Bed
and Walk" (Ser.) 330; What Not to
Preach: A Sermon to Young Sermon-
izers (S. T.) 338; Christ in the Porches
of Bethesda (Ser.) 520; Timeliness of
Christ's Birth.
Burns, Rev. George J., We Preach Christ
(Ser.).

Campbell, Rev. James M., The Scotch

Preacher of the Olden Time (Mis.) .. 557
Cobern, Camden, M., Ph.D., D. D.. The
Recently Recovered "Sayings of
Christ" and the Oldest Leaf of the
New Testament (Rev.)........... 505; 568

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Dwight, President Timothy, D.D., LL. D.,
The Educated Man in the Twentieth
Century (Ser.).

143

Edwards, J. H., D.D., The Preacher Be-
longs to His Age (S. T.)..
Ellinwood, Frank F., D.D., LL.D., Napo-
leonism in America (Rev.).....
Fairbairn, A. M., D.D., LL.D., Paul and
His Mission (Ser.)

248

199

335

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240

Foss, Bishop Cyrus D., D.D., LL. D., The
Life of Faith (Ser.).
Freeman, A., D.D., The Wonderful Name 525
Geikie, Cunningham, D. D., LL.D., How
Best to Present Bible Characters from
the Pulpit (Rev.)
Gerhart, Emil V., D.D., LL.D., Blessed-
ness of Final Communion with Christ
(Ser.)

Gibson, John Monro, D.D., The Glory of
Christian Living (Ser.)..
Gifford, O. P., D. D., The Two Comfort-
ers (Ser.).

387

229

383

336

Gilbert, Rev. Jesse S., Ph.D., Seed-
Thoughts from Many Granaries (S. T.) 152
Gloag, Paton, D.D., LL.D., Obscurity in

Our Views of a Future State (Ser.).. 412
Gordon, John, D.D., The Fugitive For-
given (Ser.)......
Gore, Rev. Charles, M. A., Solitude and
the Soul (Ser.).
Gregory, D. S., D.D., LL.D., School of
Bible Study (Ex.)...69; 166; 262; 355;
Guerrant, Edward D., D.D., Rejoicing in
the Gospel (Ser.)'.

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Paton, J. G., D.D., The Wonderful Works
of God (Ser.)..

434

334

Pearse, Rev. Mark Guy, Receiving and
Giving (Ser.)............

243

458; 540
43

234

Hall, Thomas C., D.D., What Salvation
Is (Ser.)...

403

241

Hamilton, J. W., D.D., The First Chris-
tian Century (Ser.).

47

Hawthorne, J. B., D.D., Christ's Dying
Prayer (Ser.)

435

Henson, P. S., D.D., The Angels' Song
(Ser.).

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Hoge, Moses D., D.D., LL.D., The Bible
Stands Firm Against Attacks (Ser.).
Hoyt, Wayland, D.D., Hints About the
Prayer-Meeting-Concerning Variety
(Pas.) 360; The Prayer-Meeting Ser-
vice (Pas.) .74; 170; 268; 362; 464; 546
Hughes. Rev. Hugh Price, The Lesson
of Christmas Day..
Hughes, Thomas P., D.D., Side Lights
from Scripture Metaphors (8. T.)
56; 250; 344: 444
Hulbert, C. B., D.D., The Theology of
the Sermon on the Mount (Ex.)...... 163
Hunt, T. W., Ph.D., Lit. D., Shelley's Life
and Teachings (Rev.)....
392

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Pentecost, George F., D.D., Christian
Unity in Diversity (Ser.)..
Pick, Bernhard, Ph.D., D.D., Emperor
Julian's Acquaintance with the Old
Testament (Rev.).
Pierson, Arthur T., D.D., Seed-Thoughts
for Sermons and Public Discourse
(S.T.) ..........57; 157; 252; 846; 446; 555
Potter, Bishop Henry C., D.D., D.C.L.,
The Individual and Society (Ser.).... 313
Power, Frederick D., D.D., The Trinities
(Ser.)..
Reichel, Rev. George V., A. M., Ph.D.,
Side Lights from Science (S.T.) 54;
155; 342; 534
Sabine, W. T., D.D., Jehoshaphat, Face
to Face with One of Life's Great
Emergencies, Our Model (Ser.)..
Sayce, Prof. A. H., D.D., LL.D., F.R.S.,
The Limitations of Archeology as a
Substitute for Old-Testament His-
tory (Rev.).
Schodde, George H., Ph. D., International
Problems of Theology (Rev.)........ 301
Schuh, Prof. L. H., Ph.D., The Death of
a Christian a Sleep (Ser.).......
Shaw, John Balcom, D.D., Great Preach-
ers I Have Heard-Alexander Whyte
(Mis.) 282; The Problem of the Sun-
day-School (Rev.).

... 137

195

522

290

Sheppard, Rev. William C., Homiletic
110
Hints (S. T.)

497

Kennard, J. Spencer, D.D., The Personal
Factor in Preaching (Rev.).....
Lilly, W. S., The Pulpit and Liberty
(Rev.) 104: The Pulpit and Progress
(Rev.)..
Little, Rev. William John Knox, M. A..
The Blessing of High Failure (Ser.). 336
Love, John, Jr., D.D., Puzzles Inter-
preted (Ser.).
Ludlow, James M., D.D., L.H.D., Side
Lights from History (S.T.) 58; 154;
249; 442; From Common Things...... 533

429

McCurdy, J. F., Ph.D., LL.D., Light on
Scriptural Texts from Recent Discov-
eries (Rev.).
.24; 121: 218; 809; 408
McKenzie, Alexander, D.D., The Com-
forting God (Ser.)
McKenzie, Prof. W. Douglas, The Wise
Men..

441

430

Sinclair, William M., D.D., Our Anglican
Review (Rev.) 20; 119; 215; 305; 404; 502
Smith, Rev. George H., M.A., B.D., The
Light of the World (Ser.).
Smyth, George H., D. D., Hints to Young
Ministers on Preparing Sermons
(S.T.)..

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McLane, William W., D.D., Ph.D., The
Case of Theology Versus Science
(Rev.)

188

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McLaren, Alexander, D. D., When the Oil
Flows (Ser.) 221; The Race and the
Training (Ser.) 428; The Child of Man:
the Son of God (Ser.).

Thompson, Charles L., D.D., Our Greater
New York and Its Needs (Ser.)
Townsend, Rev. C. W., Archibald G.
Brown (Mis.)................

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145

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523

Macmillan, Hugh, D. D., IL. D., F.R.S. E.,
The Scarlet Line (Ser.).

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McNeill, Rev. John, "I Go A-Fishing"
(Ser.)...

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Warner, Rev. Horace E., A.M., The Pas-
tor Among Men (Mis.)...
Warren, Bishop H. W., D.D., LL.D., The
Greatest Thoughts (Ser.) 47; Christ
Coming into Our Life (Ser.)

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