much that is unconsciously expressive of this attitude. The seventh chapter, for instance, would have been much better entitled "God's Method." The Holy Spirit has no "method" in any way separate from God's. The tone of the lectures is broad, catholic, and rational. The piety is quite evident, and the effect upon thoughtful, receptive readers can only be sweet and wholesome. Yet even the ideal of service that dominates the book is mystical and individual. In the chapter on "The Holy Spirit's Rewards" a splendid chance is missed to point out some of the rewards which may be claimed in a coming social redemption, quite apart from selfish individual interest therein. In the same way " Sanctification " is treated of as individual. The prophetic dream of a state in which the meanest vessels in the household will be inscribed "Holy, Holy, Holy," just as the altar vessels were, is a dream that is ignored in the range of thought represented here. We are thankful for such clear notes, but wish a more symphonic poem; we rejoice in the sweet vision, but wish the range were wider and the insight clearer. To many this book will be a refreshing cup of water; to many more, and those the more modern ones, it will be a direction given in an unknown tongue.
More eloquent tongues than mine have already paid due tribute to the memory of the venerable scholar, whose great learning and manly virtues we can all unite in praising, without regard to religious or scientific differences, however profound and essential they may be. I will not dwell upon the historical training, the grasp of scientific method, and the ripe scholarship which were distinctive of Dr. Schaff, nor upon his sincere sympathy for the spiritual and religious element in the history of human thought, nor upon the uprightness of his historical conscience, and his desire to be objective and candid in the statement of views which were not his own,—these are the primary qualities which we demand of a Church historian, and especially of one who assumes the delicate and responsible office of an historian of theology. You have requested me to speak of the deceased in his relations with the Catholic Church, and I propose to confine myself to a brief enumeration of the motives why that Church respects such men as Dr. Schaff. He devoted his life in a great measure to the history, the theology, and the original texts and sources of the earliest Christian ages, those distant but all important years when the foundations of the Catholic Church were being sunk, and the great beams were being laid on which she has since arisen. He endeavored to bring back the minds of men to a consideration of those primitive days when there was but one spirit and one heart in the Christian body, when belief and discipline, religious life and organization, were substantially of the same type in all the Christian communities.
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