To win or lose in a fair competition is a sure means of developing respect for one's opponents. That is why international sport develops international friendliness. This is particularly true of amateur sport. Polo, though restricted to comparatively few who can afford the expense of the game, arouses wide interest because of the spirited nature of the game and its fine traditions of sportsmanship. The American team this year won a decisive victory over the British team. The picture here presents Mr. Hitchcock, of the American team, winning the race for the ball with one of the British players, Lord Wodehouse P HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE1 BY LYMAN ABBOTT ROFESSOR SMITH defines the purpose of this book in the first two sentences of his preface: "This series of studies is prepared for the use of adult Bible classes. It aims to put into the hands of busy men and women a guide for the consideration of the fundamentals of a Christian faith." He apparently regards these two aims as identical. But for many they are not identical. The Roman Catholic regards the Bible as the source of Christian faith only as it is authoritatively interpreted by the Church; and at the other extreme are scholars who consider some of the teachings of the Bible as not only not Christian but anti-Christian. Thus by some the teaching of Paul and the teaching of Jesus are interpreted as in direct conflict. We wish that Professor Smith had confined himself to the first of these purposes-the interpretation of the Bible-for which it is admirably adapted, in spite of some incursions into philosophy, inspired by his second purpose, to lay down the fundamentals of the Christian faith. He assumes with the author of the Second Epistle to Timothy that the object of the Bible is to equip men for godly living, and he applies its teachings not to abstract theological questions which scholars have raised since the last book of the Bible was written but to vital questions which existed before the Bible, and would exist if there were no Bible; such questions as the relation of creed to deed, or right thinking to right living, the nature of God, the nature and needs of man, the meaning of faith, and how to meet trouble and temptation. With this brief explanation of the book I use it as a text for some reflections on Bible study. There is a great difference between study about the Bible and study of the Bible. One might study in cyclopædias and treatises such questions as, Did Bacon or Shakespeare write the plays which tradition attributes to Shakespeare? When were those plays written? What use did the authors make of previous literary material? And he might never read a play through or acquire any appreciation of Shakespeare's literary qualities. So one may, and many do, study such questions as, When were the various books of the Bible written? By whom? What, if any, previous material did any of their authors use? How and by whom were the various books brought together and made one book? And he might never read any book in the Bible through, or have any idea whether it gives one consistent answer to the ethical and spiritual problems which life is continually presenting to all thoughtful minds, and if so, what that answer is. 1 Fundamentals for Daily Living. By Robert Seneca Smith, Professor of Biblical Literature at Smith College. The Woman's Press, New York City. $1.50. To study about the Bible is to study questions of authorship, date, and composition. To study the Bible is to study the various books which compose it for the purpose of ascertaining its answer to such questions as, Who is God? What is man? What are his duties? What are his reasonable hopes and aspirations? and What is the relation between him and God? To such study Dr. Smith's book is a very useful guide. It should be studied with a Bible at hand for convenient and frequent reference. In this study two simple but very fundamental principles should always be kept in mind. The first of these principles is that the Bible is a library, composed of sixty-six different books, written by at least forty or fifty different writers, and that a period of not less than a thousand years, probably more, elapsed between the date of the first and that of the last books which compose it. The unity of the Bible is that of spirit not of form, a unity of minds living under different civilizations, in different ages of the world, speaking under different circumstances, and to different circles of readers. The other principle is that the Bible contains reports of religious errors as well as of religious teaching intended to correct them. If it contained no record of errors, it could be no true history. No one could understand Abraham Lincoln if he did not understand the nature of American slavery and the apologies and defenses that were made for it. No one can understand Isaiah if he does not know something of the paganism which surrounded and the semi-paganism which pervaded Israel. The notion that there are no errors recorded in the Bible and none reflected in the utterances of its teachers leads inevitably to the blunder of the judge who said: "We have the highest possible authority for saying, 'All that a man hath will he give for his life,'" and was humiliated to be told the next day by a daily newspaper that it was Satan who said it. Let me illustrate these two principles by applying them very briefly to the Bible teaching concerning immortality. Unillumined man cannot conceive of spirit apart from the body. In this respect he is like some highly educated scientists of to-day, whom I nevertheless venture to call unillumined. He cannot picture to himself an unembodied spirit, so he constructs an idol of wood or stone to represent his deity, and represents him hideous and wrathful, as does the African, or placid and indifferent, as does the East Indian. So when a man dies his friends embalm the body and seal it up against decay that it may be ready for the return of the spirit, or bury bows and arrows with the body that the departed may have them in the "happy hunting ground," or conceive the dead as a shadow dwelling in a land of shadows. Mrs. Harker, in one of her charming stories of child life, has told of a little boy who had been accustomed to play cards with a grandfather who impressed upon his grandson the importance of always having a clean pack. When the grandfather died, the little boy crept into the room where the body lay awaiting burial and put a clean pack of cards into his hand. This is what humanity did in the childhood of the race. The Jewish people shared this common feeling of mankind. Job expresses the common faith of his time: "As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up; so man lieth down, and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." Hezekiah in his prayer gives expression to the same conception of death: "The grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth." Faith in a life beyond death was not possible till man had born in him faith in a deathless life as a present possession. Still pursuing our study of the Bible, we come to the pregnant fact that faith in immortality, which painted on the tomb of the catacombs the emblems of hope, came when faith in the spiritual life and the possibility of that spiritual life for the children of men was born. Jesus brought life and immortality to light, and he brought immortality to light by bringing life to light. He disclosed to his disciples a new kind of happiness. It is to be found, he said, in ourselves not in our possessions, in what we are not in what we get. Blessed, men thought, are the grasping, for they get the earth. "Blessed," said Jesus "are the meek; for they inherit the earth." The truly happy souls are those that give their lives to service and take what comes to them as a gift. He disclosed to his disciples a new kind of ambition-ambition for service. "Among the Gentiles they that are great exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you; but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister." He disclosed to his disciples a new kind of piety. "Great is Jehovah's mercy toward them that fear him," said the Psalmist. The piety of the Old Testament Jew was founded on fear. Christ founded piety on love. "He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father . . . and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." The happiness of character grows with our growth and neither old age, infirmity, nor sickness can rob us of it; the ambition to serve can always find occasions for service and it is never satiated; the piety founded on love brings us a divine companionship which removes the fear of death. As we possess immortality we believe in it. G CONTRIBUTORS' GALLERY EORGE STURGES BUCK has been Mayor of Buffalo since 1918. He was born in Chicago in 1875 and educated at Yale and at the Buffalo Law School. He began to practice law in Buffalo in 1898. HEODORE STEARNS is one of Broad Tways leading conductors of light opera; last season he conducted the Kreisler-Jacobi operetta "Apple Blossoms." He was born in Berea, Ohio, attended Oberlin, and studied musical composition at Wurzburg, Bavaria, where he later conducted grand opera and composed his first opera, "Endymion." He has been editor of "The Etude." Before entering his musical career he was a reporter on the Cleveland "Reporter" and "Plain Dealer," Chicago "Inter Ocean," Cincinnati "Tribune," Memphis "Commercial," Philadelphia "North American," and was with the Associated Press in New York and abroad. CH HARLES HENRY MELTZER was formerly correspondent in Paris, Rome, London, Spain, Berlin, and Cairo, for the New York "Herald." He has been dramatic and musical critic for the New A Columbia Bicycle FREE TRANSPORTATION EQUALITY BY M. 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