MY PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES, by J. A. Kensit.
London: Protestant Truth Society, 3 St Paul’s Churchyard, E.C. 4. Price 1s net.
Mr Kensit gives a very interesting account of his visit to Lourdes, that spot haunted and resorted to by superstitious Roman Catholics. The story of the deluded, uneducated peasant girl, with dull, dreamy eyes, Bernadette Soubirous, and her visions of the Virgin, and the so-called miraculous spring, which has brought in plenty of money to the priests, are interestingly told. One has only to read these pages to get some idea of how superstition flaunts its brazen face to all the boasted enlightenment of the twentieth century. The narrative is well illustrated by excellent photos.
THE CHURCH OF ROME FROM WITHIN, by J. W. Poynter.
Protestant Truth Society. Price 6d.
Mr Poynter was a Non-conformist to begin with, but joined the Church of Rome. Like so many perverts, his zeal in defence of his new faith was of the aggressive type, and he became a prominent, propagandist of Romanism, and a keen controversialist against Protestantism. At length he had his eyes opened to the delusions of Popery, and in the above pamphlet he tells how the awakening came about. It is a booklet worth reading.
CAN THE CHRISTIAN NOW BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION? by William Hallock Johnson, Ph.D., D.D., Professor in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: “S.S. Times” Company.
Price $1.50.
This is an extremely interesting treatment of a subject pressing its attention more and more on all who value the Christian faith. Dr Johnson, who, since the title page was printed, has been appointed President of the University of which he was a professor, realises the seriousness of the claims made by evolution, and makes it quite plain if these are accepted Christianity and all the hope it brings are gone. An interesting feature of the book is the review of recent outstanding works, such as More’s, O’Toole’s, MacCready Price’s. Dr Johnson holds by the great Biblical doctrines of the fall, redemption and regeneration, and Evolution has no place for these as they are presented to us in the Bible.
A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, by Robert Dick Wilson, Ph.D., D.D., Professor of Semitic Philology in Princeton Theological Seminary.
Philadelphia: “S.S. Times” Company. Price $2.00.
This is a scholarly defence of the Old Testament Scriptures. With his great resources of Semitic learning, Dr Wilson has not much difficulty in showing that much that passes for profound scholarship among the Higher Critics rests upon a sandy foundation. The articles of which this book is made up appeared in the “Princeton Theological Review,” and have been revised and added to. He deals with such subjects as the text, grammar, vocabulary, history and religion, and in a concluding chapter summarises his results. As was to be expected it is a masterly treatment of the various points dealt with. In his conclusion he says:—”We welcome all sincere and honest study of its [the Bible’s] origin, purpose and meaning. But is it too much to ask and hope that more of those who have been appointed by the Church to teach its history and its doctrines should devote their time and their energies to the defence of its great and fundamental, unique and outstanding facts and implications, rather than to the picking of flaws in the garments of the prophets and to the punching of holes in Christ’s perfection.”