THE LIFE BEYOND.
tion. Tho author has succeeded well his thoughts on this great subject _,_£_ «li" proba "e that fhe lecture! 'wJre ro.« m eff^°tive When <*eliver«l rtrl IrSmeS^^L 110 **W •» "»&& Sd^l^-t^^i^ deadly dogmatic days of forty years back. In the last three lectures M? Spun* sots himself to rid the Now Testa! ment teaching on Eternity. Heaven and Hell from the extraordinary perversions of those words in the popular theology; perversions to which we probably owe the modern revolt against theology more than to any other cause. These crude notions crept in mainly as survivals from Greek and Teutonic heathenism and it is the hardest thing in the world to make men see that they are not in the New Testament Mr Spurr is perhaps as successful as any one can be in simple explanation of k most difficult series of questions Tho lectures are necessarily elementary and incomplete, but should be of great*value in making men think. (London: Hodder and Stoughton.)
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 9
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163THE LIFE BEYOND. Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 9
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