Here Comes the Band Wagon We all remember the story (if the Pied Ptper of Hamelin. This character was. able rbythe strains of his irresj.stible m'u~ic to ep,tic~ .QWJflrep. . h;y the~ores to follOW him ip,to?,bli'\TioP,. Grouppl'essurehas astran~e ~ffect on most of us. It sometimes leads us into peculiar situations and .coerces IUS to say strange things. It takes~tiways be able to agree with the author's conclusions, he will certainly Jieel compelled to re-think and re-appraise the nature and mission of the Protestant churches in America. F. H. Littell is professor of church History at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Littell is well-known to Mennonite scholars for his excellent contributions to Anabaptist historiography. His book, The Anabaptist View of the Church (1958), is certainly one of the classics in the field. Littel deserves a ,sympathetic hearing in our Brotherhood also on the crucial issues he discusses in such 'a thoug,ht-provoking manner in this book. J. A. Toews

"But I Say Unto Joachim Jeremias, The Bennon on the Mount (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1963). Translated by Norman Perrin, 38 pp. This isa Facet Book in the Biblical Series edited by John Reumann. It is a translation of Die Bergpredigt which appeared in "Calwer Hefte" , in 1959. Professor Jeremias' pen bas been rather prolific ever since he became professor at Goettingen. Having specialized in his early years in rabbinic sources and in the Palestinian environment of the time of Christ, he has enriched the field of New Testament stUdies 'greatly. English readers of theology will recall such titles as: The Parables of Jesus, Unknown Sayings of Jesus, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus, Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries, and others. In this brief but incisive study of the Sermon on the Mount, Jeremias brings the 'problem' of understanding

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