THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF PEACE. Edited by the late James
Hastings, D.D. (T. and T. Clark. 8s. net.) The late Dr. James Hastings did more to promote religious studies in the English-speaking Churches than any one man of his generation. Ile was a great editor : the twelve volumes of the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Etftics—to which must be added the Dictionaries -respectively of the Bible, of Christ and the Gospels, and of the Apostolic Church—are a lasting memorial of his industry and discernment. The present volume falls under the head of '" Predicabilia " :— "He hoped that preachers in all Churches would make Peace a message in the coming winter. 'Long before the Genoa and the Copenhagen Conferences were held,' he wrote, 'the conviction came to us that Peace must be preached beyond anything else, and a volume was prepared to serve as a basis of discourse. . . . The whole Biblical doctrine of Peace is discussed in it, the Peace of God and the Peace of Christ, Peace with God, with Conscience, and with `Men ; and, above all, the question of Peace or War.' This is the volume."
It cannot be sibl that the conclusions arrived at are definite ; the book is rather a compilation, or manual, than a product of personal thought. But it looks in the right direction, and leads its readers Part 'of, if not the whole of, the way.
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