language contained in the Gram- mar, 548; changes that have af- fected the sounds of the language have affected its vowel system, 548; substitution of the English w for the German w or v as the equivalent of the Hebrew vav, 549; origin of the vowel sounds, 549; the treatment of the verb and of participial and infinitive forms of nouns, 550; merits of the Student's Hebrew Lexicon, 551. Hefele's, Dr. Chas. J., History of the Christian Councils, noticed, 507. Hengstenberg's, E. W., Book of Job, noticed, 387.
Herrick, Prof. J. R., article by, 209. Hoffmann's, Dr., Deutschland, no- ticed, 199.
Infant Baptism and a Regenerated Church-Membership Irreconcila- ble, article on, by Rev. W. H. H. Marsh, 665; prevalent vagueness of conception in regard to the relation of baptized children to the church, 667; the subject of personal regeneration related to
all theories of the church-member- ship of baptized children, 678; reasons for which infant baptism and a regenerated church-mem- bership are irreconcilable, 687; the great difference between Bap- tists and Paedobaptists, in the realization of the idea of a regen- erated church-membership, 697. Influence of the Pulpit, The, article on, by Prof. John Bascom, 698; power of the preacher in general, 698; the pulpit often disparaged, 699; the pulpit undervalued, 702; sources of its influence, 704; the identification of the pulpit with progress, 709; means of enlarging the influence of the pulpit, 711; increased cultivation permeated by faith, 711; broader defence of Christian principles, 714; moral force with which religious truths are held, 716. Influence of the Press, The, article on, by Prof. John Bascom, 401: the printing-press a powerful agent in civilization, 401; glance at the history of newspapers, 401; the
popular element in the press gain- ing ground rapidly, 403; results of the newspaper growth, 404; on the privacy of life, 404; it inten- sities in a high degree the passing impressions of the hour, 406; loss of individuality, 407; the press unfavorable to moral integrity and soundness, 408; the press a constant means of reaching private ends, 410; exclusion of articles of real merit, 411; the press a strong incentive to personal van- ity, 412; reason for dwelling on these evils, 412; the levelling down of literature and science to the popular mind inevitable, 414; excessive pride of Americans in their newspapers, 415; the ener- getic character of our reforms due to the press, 415; two sorts of influence belonging to the press, involuntary and designed, 416; injurious effects of the publication of the details of crime, 417.
John i. 26, 'Eyù ßantíčw ¿v vồati. Exegesis of, article, by Rev. J. Tracy, D.D.,532; alleged error in using with in the place of in, 532; ouv not understood where no prep- osition is used, 532; év primarily expresses locality, 533; it cannot be rendered into, 534; still uncer- tain whether John baptized by immersion, 537.
Jowett's, B., Dialogues of Plato, noticed, 392.
Keim's Dr. T., History of Jesus of Nazareth, noticed, 197, 384. Krauth's, Charles P., D.D., Con- servative Reformation and its Theology, noticed, 204. Kubel's Social and Economic Legis- lation of the Old Testament, no- ticed, 200.
Lange's, Dr. J. P, Life of the Lord
Jesus Christ, noticed, 564. Lawrence's, Rev. E. A., D.D., Life
of Joel Hawes, D.D., noticed, 573. Lecky on Morals, article on, by
Prof. J. R. Herrick, 209; rela- tion of the principles of ethics to
theological opinions, 209; design | of Lecky's History of Morals, 210; his views of ethical principles im- portant to be understood, 211; his classification of theories, 211; the ethics of interest, 212; objec- tions to the ethics of interest, 213; his views of intuitive morals, 215; the argument in favor of the ethics of interest drawn from the diversity of moral judgments, 216; his exposition of the intui- tive theory of morals faulty, 216; he does not recognize an objective standard of morals in the divine reason, 218; nor in the human reason, 219; the perpetual change in the standard of morals and in the relative value of particular virtues, 220; his account of moral types unsatisfactory, 221; treat- ment of Christianity unsatisfac- tory, 223; as shown in his account of the condition of the Roman empire, 223; account of Pagan morality, 224; his glorification of stoicism, 225; his account of the moral character of Christian Rome, 226; he is unjust to Christianity because he does not recognize the cycles of civilization from a true historic point of view, 228; his false assumption that Rome was converted and Christianity propa- gated by simply natural agencies, 230; comparison of his positions with each other, 231; manner in which he regards miracles as con- nected with the introduction of Christianity, 233; comparison of the Pagan and Christian systems of morals important, 236: Chris- tianity a system of instruction of a peculiar character, 236; the facts of the gospel history insepa- rable parts of the Christian sys- tem, 237.
Lyell's Student's Elements of Geol- ogy, article on, by John B. Perry,
"Man of Sin," 2 Thess. ii. 3-9, The, article on, by Prof. Cowles, 623. Marriott's, Rev. W. B., Testimony
of the Catacombs, noticed, 396. Marsh, Rev. W. H. H., article by, 665.
Organic and Visible Manifestation of Christ's Kingdom, and the Human Agency in its Advance- ment, The, article on, by Prof. Samuel Harris, 114; the church the organic outgrowth in human history of the life that is in Christ, 114; the Spirit present where the church is, and the church existent only where the Spirit is, 115; the true idea of the church as the outgrowth of the life that is in Christ, 117; the Spirit acts pri- marily on individuals, 117; the church an organized association of
persons renewed by the Holy Spirit, 118; the individualism of the church, 119; this statement historically proved, 120; the con- stitution of the church has fur- nished an important principle of political and social progress, 121; the church as an organization subordinate to the life, 122; the organization the outgrowth of the life, 122; the organization ex- ists for the life, 122, the church not mediatorial, 123; this idea of the church has penetrated politi- cal and social institutions, 123; the church not a mediator between God and man, 125; the truths of Christianity uttered in the hier- archial church only in monstrous forms, 125; the unity of the church the unity of the spirit, 127; the church local and congregational, not national, 127; the church has no authority to govern, 127; the national or ecumenical unity of the churches, the unity of the spirit, 129; the method by which the fellowship of the churches
shall be determined not prescribed in the New Testament, 130; the Christian church necessarily cath- olic, 131; the continuity of Christ's kingdom in history the continuity of the spirit not of the organiza- tion, 132; the organization an expression of the life, 133; the organization has a continuity that is historical, 134; this continuity through the Spirit, 134; the church transforms and purifies society, 135; the church in all generations as much connected with Christ as in the beginning, 136; the church adapted to human progress, 137; the necessity of human agency for the growth of the church, 138; this only one form of the general question of the manifestation of the infinite in the finite, 138; de- pendence on human agency in- volved in the historical character of redemption, 139; this depend- ence evident from the very nature of redemption, 139; this agency an effective instrument in training Christians to love like Christ, 140; characteristics of this human agen- cy, 140; its spontaneity, 141; the prominence given in it to the indi- vidual, 143; Christianity opens spheres of action adapted to every Christian, 145; the Christian work of woman, 146; it must be domes- tic and social, 147: the human agency demands wise forethought in adapting means to ends, 148; the choice of a profession, 149; every man's work a calling, 149; the work of Christian missions performed best by associations, 152; the necessity of this, as ena- bling the churches to meet changes of time and peculiarities of place, and as a means of preserving Christian liberty, 152; voluntary associations accordant with the apostolic constitution of the church, 153; and with the promi- nence given to the individual, 153; in accordance with the methods of apostolic missions, 154; with the common practice of the church, 154; the peculiar efficacy of this mode, 154.
Park, Prof. E. A., article by, 157, 339, 720. Patristic Views of the two Geneal- ogies of our Lord, article on, by Frederic Gardiner, D.D., 593. Perry, John B., article by, 479. Physical Basis of our Spiritual Language, The, article on, by W. M. Thompson. D.D., 1; divine revelation possible only by means of a peculiar spiritual language, 1; the promotion of such a lan- guage beyond the powers of man, 2; the spiritual language preceded by the natural and the mundane, 3; Palestine necessarily the thea- tre of this process, 3; man not endowed originally and miracu- lously with a spiritual language, 4; language of very slow growth, 5; the physical mundane basis of language easily misunderstood, and may teach ruinous error, 7; the growth of a spiritual language, an argument for the reality of divine revelation, 8; the general course of the argument on this point, 9; the plan for forming a spiritual language begun at the creation, 9; Palestine early chosen and fitted up as the scene of this work, 10; the social and civil condition of the Hebrews as re- lated to this work, 12; an accu- rate acquaintance with Palestine not indispensable for understand- ing the Bible, 14; the language of the poetry of the Bible has its basis in Palestine, 15; the scenery of the Holy Land poetic, 16; why has Palestine produced no great poet? 18; extent to which our religious vocabulary has been en- riched from this poetic source, 18: illustrated in the case of the first Psalm, 18; the "threshing floor" and fruit," 20; and "chaff," 21. Pond, Dr. E., article by, 538. Porter's, Pres. Noah, Elements of
Intellectual Science, noticed, 788. Potwin, Prof. L. S., article by, 419.
Pressel's, W., Commentary of Hag- gai, Zechariah, and Malachi, no- ticed, 198.
Progress of Christ's Kingdom in its Relation to Civilization, The, article on, by Samuel Harris, D.D., 602; civilization not a product of Christianity, but an indepen- dent existence, 602; Christianity gives the forces essential to a per- manent civilization, 604; civiliza- tion in itself destitute of these forces, 607; Christianity gradu- ally creates a Christian civiliza- tion, 608; the progress of Christ's kingdom modified by the existing civilization, 608; the applications of Christianity to the progress of society disclosed only in the progress of Christ's kingdom, 609; men prepared to appreciate these applications only as the exigencies to which they are pertinent arise, 610; Christian life always modified by the existing civilizations, 612; Christianity sometimes comes into alliance with imperfection and error, 614; Christian truth often suffocated by the error associated with it, 616; Christianity always begets a purer and more Christian spirit, 616; the present always the outgrowth of the past, 618; Christianity produces a geneous civilization, 620; duty of the missionary in relation to civ- ilization, 620.
Reuss's History of Editions of the
Greek Testament, noticed, 777. Revelation and Inspiration, article on, by E. P. Barrows, D.D., 39: Revelation considered in its End, 39: Jesus an infallible teacher, 39; the relation to Christ held by the writers of the New Testament, 42; they were qualified to preach and to record the doctrines of the gospel, 43; proved by the anal- ogy of the Old Testament record, 43; the whole Old Testament received by Jesus not merely in accommodation to the belief of the age, 45; the qualifications of the apostles proved by the necessity of the case, 47; proved by Christ's express promises to his apostles, 49; the promises found in John's Gospel, 51; by the miraculous
gifts bestowed on the apostles, 53; the miraculous element now too much disregarded, 54; claims to divine authority made by the apostles themselves, 56; inspira- tion of the associates of the apos- tles, 58; miraculous gifts not im- parted to them all, 60; writings of Mark and Luke, 62; Epistles of Mark, 62; of Luke, 65; Epistles of James and Jude, 66; the Epis- tle to the Hebrews, 68; the Epis- tles of the apostolic Fathers, 69; testimony of the primitive church- es important, 70; importance of the question of the contents of a book claiming to be inspired, 71. Inspiration considered in its Mode, 427-different forms of revelation, 428; the objective forms, 428; the subjective forms, 429; other forms, 430; proper application of the term "inspiration," 430; distinction of inspiration as affect- ing the mind of the writer and as affecting the words, 431; this dis- tinction untenable, 432; the ex- tent of the application of the term, 433; illumination of the mind in respect to truth already known, 435; meaning of the term "plenary inspiration." 437; the question of verbal inspiration, 438; Eleazar Lord's modification of this theory, 440; sense in which we are conscious of thought indepen- dently of words, 442; language necessary to discursive thought, 443; the office of language to make our thoughts objective to ourselves, 444; the essential na- ture of language, 444; the end proposed in inspiration the main thing, and not the particular method, 446; the case of new revelations, 447; the case of emo- tions and purposes, 449; case of narratives of events before known, 449; objection to the theory of verbal inspiration from diversity of style, 450; answers of Carson and Lord, 451; argument for verbal inspiration from congruity, 452; objection from the various forins in which the same words of our Lord are recorded, 453; in-
spiration in relation to versions, 455; the possibility of God's pres- ence being so revealed as that there should be no doubt of the reality of the revelation, 456; gift of tongues, 458. Revelation considered in its Sphere,640:-the limitation of this sphere as to the phenomena of nature, 641; as to the natural endowments of the sacred writers, 645; their matter, 646; their style and diction, 649; limi- tation in respect to unessential circumstances, 652; the question of plenary inspiration has respect to the end in view, 656; limitation as respects the amount of light given in the scriptures, 658; the six days of creation, 661; chro- nology of the Bible, 663; lon- gevity of the antediluvians, 663; antiquity of man, 663; unity of the race, 664; commerce with the dead by modern spiritualists, 664. Riggs's, Elias, D.D., Suggested Emendations of the Authorized English Version of the Old Tes- tament, noticed, 780.
Romang's, I. P., More Important
Questions of Religion, noticed, 386. Rontsch's Indo-Germanic and the Semitic Races, noticed, 778.
not all sermons that are written, to be read, 157; the reading of sermons not to be indiscriminately condemned, 158; the prospect of reading an entire discourse, an in- centive to careful writing.158; the occasional reading of a discourse gives a needed variety to the services of the pulpit, 159; it adds emphasis to a preacher's words, 159; writing may be particularly appropriate to the subject and style of a sermon, 160; sometimes particularly appropriate to the relation of preacher and audience to each other, 162; appropriate to the mental or physical state of the preacher, 163; appropriate to the preacher's constitution and gen- eral character, 164; the reading of a sermon may be more nat- ural and impressive than speak- ing extempore or memoriter, 167; the reading of sermons more or less useful as more or less inter- mingled with extempore or mem- oriter preaching, 169; the practice of reading sermons cannot become the general practice without less- ening the preacher's influence, 170; it requires too much writing for the health, 170; disqualifies the minister for the full use of his corporeal powers, 171; reading degenerates into an inapposite stupid delivery, 171; reading lia- ble to deadening forms of abuse, 172; rules for the public reading of sermons suggested by the fact that it should be modified by the other methods of delivery, 174. Preaching Memoriter, 176:- it has high authority in its favor, 176; some men have a call from heaven to preach memoriter, 177; the majority of preachers may wisely cultivate the power of so preaching, 179; a sermon may be forgotten the next day after it is preached, 179; advantages of preaching memoriter, 181; it in- cites to the making of the discourse a rich one, 181: the preacher en- riching himself by treasuring up the sound thoughts and well-chosen expressions of written discourses,
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