CONSTRUCTIVE QUARTERLY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2384, 13 February 1915, Page 5

CONSTRUCTIVE QUARTERLY

Tho December number of tie "Constructive Quarterly" (Oxford University Press) opens with an article by Baron von Hugel on the specific genius and capacities of Christianity ■ studied in connection with the works of Professor lfirnat Troeitsch; Two articles deal with different phases of .'mysticism, one by Professor Loop, entitled "Lutheranisin and Mysticism," and the other by Bishop Boyd Carpenter, . who writes about the life and teaching of John Tauler. In his last letter to the editor of the ''Constructive Quarterly" the late Bishop of Cremona (Italy) makes an impressive appeal for' unity. "I have never seen one erring soul converted by acrid discussions : or subtle syllogisms,' he writes. "What is needed is tolerance, charity, and sincerity." In con-, eluding an article on "Independent Teachine in France," M. Eugene Tavericer has some interesting things to say about the splendid : part which . the French clergy have played in the warHe states that "for .twenty-five years the ministers of religion have, like other citizens, been compelled to become soldiers. In the midst of soldiers and a soldier himself, 1 the priest, whom ■ the free-thinker pretends to treat as an inferior citizen, has suddenly proved a living manifestation* of the spirit . of discipline and sacrifice." Dr. Symonds, of Montreal, writes on "War and the Need of a Higher Nationalism," and Dr. Adolf Deissman on "International and Interdenomination Research of the New Testament." A number of other interesting papers are contributed • by Dr. Shatter Matthews, Professor Pace, Professor Kay, Dr. E. T. Devine, Bishop Lawrenoe, Professor .. Obbink, and Bishop Guerry.