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What Is Christianity? And Other Essays. By the Rev. Prof. F. Pieper, D. D., Late Professor of Dogmatics, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. Presented in English by John Theodore Mueller, Th. D., Professor of Systematic Theology, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. VIII and 290 pages 5X7½, bound in cloth with gilt title. Price: $1.75.
It is with very special pleasure that we present this book. As the title indicates, they are treatises of our blessed Dr. F. Pieper, which he delivered and later published in German and which have now been published in a smooth English translation by his younger colleague and collaborator. They are six treatises, “The Nature of Christianity,” written in 1902 as a reply to Prof. Adolf Harnack's much-mentioned book on “The Nature of Christianity", then “The Lay Movement Ordered by God” of 1913, “Man's Reconciliation with God” of 1916, “The Holy Scriptures” of 1921, “The Christian World View” of 1923, and “The Open Heaven", the unforgettable last lecture of our blessed teacher from the last Delegate Synod he attended, namely, in River Forest, in 1929. All these treatises in the German language are well-known and disseminated. Here they are presented to the younger generation, especially to our parishioners, in English. What impression the teaching of Dr. Pieper's doctrines made on people from completely different circles, we would like to share here in detail as a recommendation of this book.
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The writer of the following words is a German writer who came to Canada in 1927 on behalf of a world-renowned German newspaper to become better acquainted with the prospects for poorer immigrants. By a strange twist of circumstances, he became well acquainted and friendly with one of our pastors, attended his services, often conversed with him about spiritual matters, and also, on his advice, attended the meeting of our Alberta and British Columbia District in Stony Plain [near Edmonton] in 1927. He later returned to Germany and is now editor-in-chief of a monthly scientific journal. This highly educated man wrote when he received the news of Dr. Pieper's blessed passing on June 3, 1931 (and his words may be considered a special peculiar recommendation of the present work):
“‘But we need not fear death. God gave us Christians a good consolation that endures all times, all sorrows, all grief of this existence forever and ever. He sent us His Son, our dear Savior, to save us from the curse of sin and the fear of death. We Christians know that when the last hour comes, when the little light of our life is about to be extinguished, we need not be afraid, but rather can rejoice; for the Lord Jesus Christ will carry us in his arms into the bosom of the Father, and we will be like a child who was lost and now found the way again that leads to his home, his eternal, blessed home.’ …
“I found these words in an old notebook of mine, which I always carry with me along with a few others, and in which I record what seems to me to be worth holding on to forever from that day. They are a quotation from Prof. Pieper's paper on 'The Power of the Gospel,' which was the centerpiece of the June 1927 Synod convention of the Alberta and British Columbia District of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States in Stony Plain, Alberta.
- - - - - - - - - - - Concluded in Part 4b - - - - - - - - - - -I wish I knew the identity of this German writer so that I could research the rest of his Christian life. We will hear great things from him in the concluding Part 4b…
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