THE

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BIBLIOTHECA SACRA.

EDITORS:

G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, WM. G. BALLANTINE,

FRANK H. FOSTER.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

EDWARDS A. PARK, JUDSON SMITH, WM. M. BARBOUR, E. c.

BISSELL, CHARLES F. THWING, SAMUEL IVES CUR-

TISS, D. W. SIMON, ARCHIBALD DUFF,

AND C. V. SPEAR.

VOL. XLVIII.

OBERLIN, OHIO:

PUBLISHED BY E. J. GOODRICH.

ANDOVER: W. F. DRAPER.

LONDON: TRUBNER AND CO.

1891.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by
E. J. GOODRICH,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XLVIII.

NO. CLXXXIX.

Article.

I. ARE MIRACLES TO BE EXPECTED?..

Page.

I

II.

BY THE REV. LUCIUS E. SMITH, D. D., NEWTON, MASS.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE "TESTIMONIUM SPIRITUS

SANCTI": A CONTRIBUTION TO ITS HISTORY IN

THE LUTHERAN CHURCH DURING THE SIXTEENTH

AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES....

BY D. W. SIMON, PH. D., PRINCIPAL OF THE CONGREGATIONAL THEO-

LOGICAL HALL, EDINBURGH,

27

III. NATURAL RELIGION PROPHETIC OF REVELATION... 52

BY FREDERIC PERRY NOBLE, CHICAGO, ILL.

IV. RESURRECTION AND FINAL JUDGMENT..

74

BY THE REV. EDMUND B. FAIRFIELD, D. D., LL. D., LYONS, FRANCE.

V.

THE BENEVOLENCE THEORY OF THE ATONEMENT 104

BY THE REV. FRANK HUGH FOSTER, PH. D., OBERLIN THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY.

VI. SCIENCE AND PRAYER (I.)........

BY WILLIAM W. KINSLEY, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUTHOR OF "VIEWS

ON VEXED QUESTIONS."

128

VII. CARDINAL NEWMAN: A TRIBUTE FROM THE ANGLI-

CAN STANDPOINT.......

144

BY THE REV. HENRY HAYMAN, D. D., ALDINGHAM, ULVERSTON,

ENGLAND.

VIII. CRITICAL NOTES...

171

Dana on Genesis and Science.

171

The Expulsion of the Bible from the Public Schools of Wisconsin 174

Present Danger in the Mormon Crisis...

178

Hibbard, Eschatology, or the Doctrine of the Last Things...... 185

Harris, Calvinism Contrary to God's Word and Man's Moral

Osborn, A Class-Book of Biblical History and Geography.

189

Hurlbut and Doherty, Illustrative Notes: A Guide to the Study

I.

IL.

A PRESBYTERIAN'S VIEW OF CONGREGATIONALISM,

BY THE REV. A. HASTINGS Ross, D. D., Port Huron, MICH.

SCIENCE AND PRAYER (II.)..........

197

218

BY WILLIAM W. KINSLEY, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUTHOR OF "VIEWS

ON VEXED QUESTIONS."

III.

230

THE DATE AND METHOD OF PHILOSOPHY................

BY THE REV. E.H. MERRELL, D. D., PRESIDENT OF RIPON COLLEGE.

IV. SUGGESTIONS AS TO MODIFICATIONS OF THE DOG.

MATIC SYSTEM TAUGHT IN THE CONGREGATIONAL

SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES, REQUIRED AT THE

PRESENT TIME......

BY THE REV. FRANK H. FOSTER, PH. D., PROFESSOR OF CHURCH

HISTORY, OBERLIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

249

Article.

Page.

V. THE REFORMED SYSTEM AND THE LARGER HOPE, 279

BY THE REV. J. N. MCGIFFERT, ASHTABULA, OHIO.

VI. RECENT DISCOVERIES BEARING ON THE ANTIQUITY

OF MAN....

BY THE REV. Professor G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, OBERLIN THEO-

LOGICAL SEMINARY.

VII. NOTES OF DELITZSCH ON TRUE AND FALSE DE-

INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION BY PROFESSOR H. M. Scott,

D. D., CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

298

310

VIII. "THE GOSPEL IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT" 322

BY THE REV. ALFRED H. HALL, MERIDEN, CONN.

IX. CRITICAL NOTES..

332

Does the Lord's Prayer make Mention of the Devil? Professor

L. S. Potwin.....

332

The Resurrection and Final Judgment. Rev. J. A. Wells..

Theories of the Parousia, Resurrection, and Judgment. Rev.

Smith B. Goodenow.

339

342

X.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.............

347

Krenkel, Beiträge zur Aufhellung der Geschichte und der Briefe des

Apostels Paulus.....

347

Toy, Judaism and Christianity.

349

Luther, Rome und Ravenna bis zum 9. Jahrhundert....

McConnell, History of the American Episcopal Church..

Cremer, Die Fortdauer der Geistesgaben in der Kirche.

The Sermon Bible......

353

353

355

355

Stevens, A Short Exposition of the Epistle to the Galatians.

Taylor, The Parables of our Saviour..