Jesus And Our Generation

THE BARROWS L E C TU R ES I 9 24 2 5 JESUS AND OUR GENERATION I, CHARLES WHITNEY GILKEY, A. M., D. D. Minister of the Hyde Park Baptist Churchy Chicago THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT 1925 BY THE UNIVERSITY ox-CHICAGO All Rights Reserved Published December 1025 Second Impression February 1926 Composed and Muted By The University of Chicago Thrww Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A. TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF ERNEST DEWITT BURTON PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 1923-25 BY WHOSE APPOINTMENT THESE LEC TURES WERE GIVEN BY WHOSE WIS DOM THEY WERE COUNSELED BY WHOSE SPIRIT THEY WERE INSPIRED CONTENTS PAGE THE BARROWS LECTURESHIP FOUNDATION ix AUTHORS PREFACE ....... . xiii LECTURE I. JESUS AND OUR GENERATION ...... i II. JESUS WAY OF LIFE ..... . 29 III. JESUS LIFE WITH GOD ........ 55 IV. JESUS AND THE MYSTERIES OF LlFE AND DEATH . 85 V. THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS ........ 117 VI. JESUS AND THE FUTURE . . ., . I5 1 INDEX ., . ., ...... ., . 181 THE BARROWS LECTURESHIP FOUNDATION The Barrows Lectureship was established In 1894 by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell. The first course of lectures was delivered during the winter of 1 896 97 by Dr. John Henry Barrows, in whose honor the lectureship was named. Dr. Barrows gave one or more lectures in each of the following cities Cal cutta, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Delhi, Lahore, Am ritzar, Agra, Jeypore, Ajmere, Indore, Ahmed nagar, Poona, Bangalore, Vellore, Madras, Ma dura, Palamcotta, Tinnevelly, and Colombo. This course of lectures has been published under the title, Christianity, the World Religion. The second course of Barrows Lectures was delivered in Calcutta, and elsewhere in India, by Dr. A. M. Falrbairn, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, during the winter of 1898-99. This course of lec tures has not been published. The third course was delivered in India, Ceylon, and Japan, by Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, during the winter of 1902-3, and has been published under the title, Christian Belief Interpreted by Christian Ex perience The fourth course was also given by Dr. BARROWS LECTURESHIP FOUNDATION Hall in 1906-7, the subject being Christ and the Eastern SouL Publication took place in 1909. The fifth course was on Social Programmes in the West by Professor Charles R. Henderson, given in 1912-13 and published in the latter year. The letter of Mrs. Haskell to President Harper, in which she proposes to establish this lectureship in the University of Chicago, is as follows Chicago, October 12, i8g President William R. Harper My dear Sir I take pleasure in offering to the University of Chicago the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the founding of a second Lectureship on the Relations of Christianity and the Other Religions, These lectures, six or more in number, are to be given in Calcutta India and, if deemed best, in Bombay, Madras, or some other of the chief cities of Hindustan, where large numbers of the educated Hindus are familiar with the English language. The wish so earnestly expressed by Mr, P C...