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That which is fundamental in theology is changeless. Science may grow toward perfection, and fundamental theology will require no adjustment to successive stages of scientific belief. But the popular theology consists of the ancient, changeless, and essential core of theistic apperceptions, with sundry beliefs of an essentially secular character accreted around it. Secular beliefs are the proper subjects of scientific examination; and science is relentless in the discrediting of such as do not endure the test. So it results that the discredited beliefs of traditional theology become obsolete; and the scientist sometimes retires to the limbo of disrespect a creed tainted with the relics of effete doctrines. The tainted creed is abhorrent to intelligence, and the intelligent person inclines to withdraw from it, leaving weakly intelligence to tolerate and defend the contradictions which do not seem to it of much consequence. Thus the party of religious belief is robbed of its virility of thought, and would *THE EVOLUTION OF MAN AND CHRISTIANITY. By the Rev. Howard MacQueary. New York: D. Appleton & Co. become extinct by its own act if there were not eternal truth at the centre of the system around which it gathers and trembles. Now this virile work of Rector MacQueary brings before us the nature of the conflict between new science rising in its own strength, and old science protected under the hallowing ægis of faith. It unfolds the promise of a purified creed, emerging from the rags and rottenness of traditions, standing up in the sunlight, under the cerulean sky, and calling on the universe to testify to the truth which it proclaims. It matters not whether every position here assumed shall prove completely defensible. It is an earnest struggle after the true; it is an honest one; though it is human, and may leave other efforts to be made. But it is a bright omen, risen out of the bosom of the Church. It is a magnificent assertion of theology to a right to participate in the benefits of untrammelled thought. It is a brave vindication of intelligence, without any recognition of the necessity of the retirement of religion from the arena. A man may be true to science without being a religious skeptic. A teacher of religion may be hospitable to all science without feeling himself driven from the sacred desk. The teacher of religion here asserts his lien on all that is true, and tenaciously holds fast to the totality of truth, and with its shining shield wards off the garbage of dead systems hurled at him by the representatives of a leprous theology. He will be attacked, but he will stand. He will be misrepresented, but by those who do not know him. He will be impeached, but by the powerless. The assumptions of ignorance have never commanded lasting respect. Bigotries have triumphed, but their battles have been again fought, and lost. He who fights for all truth fights in God's cause. We record these aphorisms because they are imbedded in the book which lies before us. They are living truths which spring from the heart and being of the book. More than its details of statement are the grand purpose for which it exists, and the comprehensive declaration which its existence implies, that theology is emancipated. Its appearance is the signal for rejoicing. It marks a milestone in the progress of humanity-an æonic milestone. But it is due to the reader, secondly, to im |