THE "HIBBERT JOURNAL."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 18 October 1913, Page 9

THE "HIBBERT JOURNAL."

The July number of the "Hibbert Journal" (Williams and Norgate) well maintains the high standard which students of religion and philosophy havo learned to, expect from this well-known quarterly. In a very interesting article the Rev. A., Smythe Palmer argues that the belief in tho'fall of Lucifer was suggested by the remarkable ' phenomenon known as a falling star.- His argument is supported by a number of striking quotations from ancient and modern literature, such as the Old Persian belief,

Headlong down from Heaven fell he, Ho of demons tho most lying, Angra Mainyu many slaying. \ "There is indeed," writes Mr. Palmer, "110 natural phenomena under ~ which tlio downfall and judgment of the Evil Spirit for his rebollion in Heaven could bo more fittingly envisaged than that of a falling star." The "Occasion and Objcct of the Epistle to the Romans" is the subject' of a very able article by Dr. James Drummond, who disagrees with tho theory that tho epistle <va« addressed to a Church mainly composed of Jewish Christians who were opposed to Pauline umversalism. Ho contends that tho Epistlo shows that St. Paul had in mind the necessities' and' dangers of tho time, and while exhibiting tho superiority of tHo Christian faith over tho systems of tho past, anfl defending it against attacks from without, 110 indircctly fortified the minds of his readers against Judaising assaults, and adjusted tho relations- of now and old within the Church itself. "Imagination in Utopia" is dealt with in-a decidedly fresh way by Mr. T. C. Snow. Ho gives reasons for disagreeing with those who think that tho absenco of crime, and poverty, wickedness;' and disease, would make, life in Utopia dull and uninteresting, and ranse tho Utopians to suffer from that moral degeneracy which comes from too much happiness and too littlo stiUggle. Canon H. D. Rnwtisley writes 011 "Tlio Child and the Kincmatograph Show," and the headmaster of Eton adds a note on tho educational influence of tho [cinematograph. The Social Service artiole is by the Rov. Arthur Dalo, and is entitled "A Plea for Unemployables." The journal also oontaina a number of othor interesting artiolea.