NUMBER 2. 1. Theological Index, p. 232. 2. Sermons Preached upon Se ccasions, p. 233. 3. History of the United Netherlands, p. 233 anguage and the Study of Language, p. 235. 5. The Old R World, p. 236. 6. The History of the Great Republic, p. 237. 7. pistle to the Hebrews, p. 238. 8. History of the Methodist Epis 1. Bacon's Essays, p. 350. 2. Short Studies on Great Subjects, p 1. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literatu 466. 2. History of the American Civil War, p. 467. 3. The Po John Godfrey Saxe, p. 477. 4. The New Testament History, p. 4 Notes, critical, explanatory and practical, on the book of Psalms, 39. 6. New Poems, p. 470. 7. Where is the City ? p. 470. 8. 1 No. LXI.-JANUARY, 1868. ART. I. JESUS CHRIST: HIS PERSON AND HIS Jesus Christ: His Person and His Plan-has been ing the thoughts of men for successive centuries, but never so fully as in the present. The conflict of opinio in the brief ministry of the Saviour in Jerusalem; and sixty generations have passed away since His ascension en it is not yet accomplished. The warfare waxes in i His wondrous life is being written again in the full blaz new lights of this nineteenth century; of a historical as inexorable as it is unfair; of a material science, vau perfection; and of a worship of humanity bidding for of the religion of Christ. Emended gospels are issui the press, some with not a few additions, and others needing supplements and appendices, if not even mo enemies of the Cross are not doubtful of the issu bluntly says, "The study of the life of Jesus is the which the theology of our time is destined to be ta destroyed." Another declares, "In a certain sense is different from the God of the writers of the New Te our world is undoubtedly different, and our Christ can be the same." Nor is this all. The shout of triumph rings in the camp of the foe. Christianity is destroyed in its putrefaction to seek a deserved grave along with t 1 tremble for the kingdom of heaven because Judas betr rist. Rather will we hail any controversy concerning phet of Nazareth, believing that anything that brings n o His presence is likely to be fraught with good to the maj though, alas! it may work the sadder ruin of a few. ch but the hem of the garment of the Healer of souls is speakable blessing; and men and women may rejoice, eve be a wearying disease or a pestilent error that forces them 1 d the strength of their courage, through pressing crowds bts and fears, to stretch forth the trembling hand of trust a nd for a moment near the fringes of His beneficent power. As we are not appalled, so we are not surprised. The fir flict with unbelief, whenever it occurs, must necessarily ght around the Person and concerning the Plan of our I Le Lord. Of the battle-grounds of recent generations, son verdant meadows covered with thick summer grass and fr nt flowers; some well-tilled fields yielding a prodigious ha t, and others the scenes of occasional skirmishing and fruitle lies of rash and combative men, but never of serious fight. W ve almost forgotten Calvin in resisting Comte, and only wish f brave heart and gentle spirit of Arminius in putting on o ior to contend with Renan. The question of general redemp 1 by the work of Christ that Andrew Fuller and Dan Tayl cussed so warmly is rapidly merging into the larger question s there a divine Saviour at all?" All theological teachin ertainly moving towards Christ himself for its last settlemer I victorious defence. The enemy has said, "Here is the hei ence to His words, and therefore by the judgment w Himself. We only know God the Father as we know 66 no man hath seen the Father at any time, the only Son he hath revealed Him." The attractions of hi powerless if He who dies there be an infatuated re and not the Prince of Life. History is a blinded mu no interpreter, if Jesus be excluded from the highest the rank of Divine kings. He is the light of the pas the light of the Bible and the life of men. If I cease and adore Him as my Lord and my God, my reason puzzled and bewildered as my heart is orphaned and en. The achievements of science are no gospel fo merely like strains of beautiful music that fall on t ears of the dying, so long as my higher aspirations afte immortality remain without affectionate response; and ation of humanity, so fervently commended by the h of a new religion, is but a subtle form of the practice fi of all others, I am praying and fighting to be delivere if the Son of God be taken from me, I have nothi hope, nothing to live for, life is a chaos, history a rid problem, death a terror, and the future an abyss. The person of Jesus is the Divine centre of Christ the controlling figure of the gospel history. In the erything depends upon Him as its basis, and in the rything gathers around Him as its living core. Th intention of each Evangelist is to describe the works of the Master, not, indeed, so fully as he might hav with such completeness as he judged necessary to kes all else subordinate to the exhibition of His inimitab racter. It is impossible for us to accept the thinnest." rud nt of certainty" in the gospel account without being broug e to face with the marvellous person of the Son of Mary re is a world from which we are as absolutely incapable ishing Him as we are of excluding the sun from the heav His presence glows on every page, is the life of ever ne, the thread of gold traversing the entire web, the crown glory of the whole. Are we favored with glimpses of Hi islation? It is not merely that we may see by what politis according to what rules He would govern men, but that w y behold the King in His beauty, and, being enamored of Hi rms, yield ourselves in loving homage to His benignant au rity. Do we listen to words of grace proceeding from Hi uth? It is not as though He were another Socrates uttering sopinions as to "what is to be worshipped and what is not at is beautiful and what disgraceful, what is just and what is ust;" but that being brought into His presence we may ob the spiritual life which flows along His words. Are we ered into the audience-chamber of this King of men, and vileged to behold His miracles? It is not for the sake of ing the signs, nor that we may open wide the eyes of our ndering credulity and be led to chant the praises of Christ though He were a magician, but that we may have vital fel-ship with the Son of Man, and ourselves do greater works n these through the indwelling of His power. the aim of the Evangelist is to describe what From first to |