14 NOVEMBER 1908, Page 25

What We Know about Jesus. By Charles F. Dole, D.D.

(Chicago Open Court Publishing Company.)—If this book sets forth the " Christianity of To-day "—this is the title of the series to which this volume belongs—we are quite sure that the CI r:stianity of to-morrow will be nowhere. Jesus was "a mar

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of natural integrity,"—that is all. The Fourth Gospel has, of course, to be set aside. The others did not come into their present shape till a century after the death of the Founder. All this belongs to an obsolete form of scepticism. What Dr. Dole "knows about Jesus" is very much what a certain school thought fifty years ago and has now ceased to think. What would Dr. Adolf Harnack say to the huudred years theory? The book is not worth mention except as a symptom.