assigns a position to Christ "which must have made a deep impression on his hearers." (_L. u. W._ 1901, 370.) In 1909: "Even if we should in the end have to acknowledge that Jesus had a human father as well as a human mother, that would simply teach us what we are confessing and believing even now: Jesus is not alone true God, but likewise true man. His divinity would not be affected thereby." (_L. u. W._ 1909, 228.) In 1918 the _Lutheran Church Work and Observer_ recommended Dr. James Denney's book, _The Atonement and the Modern Mind_, in which Denney practically rejects the authority of the Scriptures and departs from the Christian doctrine of satisfaction made by Christ. (_L. u. W._ 1918, 482.) In the _Lutheran Church Work and Observer_, April 4, 1918, Rev. W.R. Goff maintained: "The writer cannot find one passage in Scripture that definitely and positively asserts a visible return of the Lord." (_L. u. W._ 1918, 423.) 99. A Second Edition of Quitman.--For quite a number of years Dr. E.H. Delk, a prominent member of the General Synod, has been an ardent advocate of modern rationalism and evolutionism. He denies the verbal inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible, rejects the Lutheran doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures in Christ, attacks the dogma that the death of Christ was a ransom and a substitutional sacrifice for the sins of the world, corrupts every Christian doctrine, and demands that all of them be restated in order to bring them into harmony with modern evolutionistic science and philosophy. "The Bible and our Confession do not ask man to throw away his reason in the reception of truth and in the _judgment_ of the theological problems," Delk declared in 1903. (_L. u. W._ 1903, 185.) A number of years ago, Dr. Delk was permitted to present his radical views to the students of Gettysburg Seminary; and the _Lutheran Quarterly_ published the lecture without a word of criticism. At Atchison, 1913, when resolutions were offered rejecting the doctrines of Delk, the General Synod refused to take definite action. The _Lutheran Observer_ boasted that Synod was not ready to sacrifice liberty of thought and speech. (_L. u. W._ 1901, 370; 1902, 136; 1903, 185; 1913, 145; 1916, 67.) In 1916 the _Lutheran Church Work and Observer_, the official organ of the General Synod, opened its columns to Delk and his theology. In 1917 Delk continued his propaganda by publishing his views in a booklet, _The Need of a Restatement of Theology_. In 1918 the _Lutheran Church Work and Observer_ endorsed and advertised the book. Identifying himself with some of the views of modern German liberalism on Luther and his theology, Delk wrote in the _Lutheran Church Work and Observer_ of November 1, 1917: "We see now in the light of a fuller history of the man [Luther] that he was a child of his age and carried over into his Protestant thinking traits of medieval thinking.... Luther was not the end, but the beginning of new advances