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ment of the doctrines plain and simple, 365; value of the practical tendencies of religion, 367; practical Christianity nourishes piety, 369; practical religion cultivates the public virtues, 371; practical Christianity encourages preachers, 373.

REMARKS ON THE IDEA OF RELIGION, FROM THE GERMAN OF DR. Karl LechLER,

374-417

By William A. Stearns, D. D., President of Amherst College. Views of Schleiermacher and Hegel, 375; the intellectual faculty to which religion belongs, 377; does religion consist in action? 379; what is morality? 380; the terms moral and super-moral, 381; religion consists in action, 388; love not a feeling but an act, 385; repentance not a feeling but an act, 387; consequences of making religion consist in feeling, 389; examination of Tzeller's view of religion, 391; the type of religion the offspring of the times, 393; the knowledge of God prior to self-knowledge, 395; explanation of terms, 397; the restoring influence of religion, 399; to which of the faculties does religion belong? 401; religion of science and art, 405; new evidence that religion is life, 407; difference between religion and philosophy, 409; different forms of the religious life, 411; centres of religious life, 413; distinction between religion and Christianity, 415.

NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

417-431

Mornings among the Jesuits at Rome, 417; Unity of the Human Kace, 426; The Typology of Scripture, 427; Stuart's Commentary on the_Book of Proverbs, 429; Works of Lyman Beecher, D. D., 429; The New Testament translated from the Syriac, 430; The Book of Genesis in Arabic, 430.

SELECT THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE,

431-448

Germany. - Number of students at the German universities, 431; notices of the professors, deaths of several, etc., 432 sq.; periodical literature, 435; works in Biblical criticism and exegesis, 437; church history, 440; theology, 441; philosophy, 442; classical literature, 443.

Switzerland.

education, 445.

Great Britain.

Statistics of literary institutions, 443; improvements in

Alford's Greek Testament, 445; Bloomfield's Additional

Annotations, 446; Biblical and classical works, 446.

United States.· - New works, 447.

OBSERVATIONS ON MATTHEW, 24: 29-31, AND THE PARALLEL PASSAGES IN MARK AND LUKE: WITH REMARKS ON THE DOUBLE SENSE OF SCRIPTURE,

By Professor M. Stuart, Andover.
[Concluded from p. 355.]

449-468

Application to the destruction of Jerusalem, 449; limitations of time, 451; De Wette, 453; testimony of the Evangelists, 454; meaning of yévntai, 456; double sense, 459; three rules for interpretation, 460; double sense, 463; principles of exegesis, 465.

THE PLATONIC DIALOGUE THEAETETUS: WITH A TRANSLATION OF THE EPISODAL SKETCH OF THE WORLDLING AND THE PHILOSOPHER,

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By Professor Tayler Lewis, Schenectady, N. Y.

468-483

Character of the dialogue, 469-473; translation from Theaetetus, 476.

LIFE OF ZUINGLI,

483-507

By Professor R. D. C. Robbins, Middlebury College.

[Concluded from p. 299.]

Conference at Baden, 483; convocation at Berne and its results, 486; war between Zurich and the Catholic cantons, differences adjusted by Berne, 490; conference at Marburg and Luther and Zuingli, 493; renewed hostilities, conflict, defeat, death of Zuingli, 498.

CLASSICAL STudies,

507-529

By Calvin Pease, D. D., President of the University of Vermont. Nature of literature as a source of culture, 507; essential likeness and incidental differences between classical literature of different periods and countries, 513; bearing of classical studies upon the social and civil relations, 512.

THE CASTES OF ANCIENT EGYPT,

529-540

From the French of J. J. Ampère, by John W. May, Esq. Discussion of hieroglyphical interpretation, 530-531; the word caste, 532533; sacerdotal and military functions not exclusive of each other, 534; the different classes intermarried, 536; members of the same family eligible to offices of the different orders, 537.

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By Charles White, D. D., President of Wabash College, Ia. Conservative by means of its peaceful modes of influence, 541; by its action on the original sources of evil things, 543; by means of the clear fulness of its ethical instructions, 545; comprehensiveness of the teachings of Christianity, 546; conservative by the immutability of its moral distinctions, 548; happy influence on society of a conservative Christianity, 550; its peaceful removal of ecclesiastical evils, 552; its removal of social evils, 555; influence of this conservatism in extinguishing domestic slavery, 556; reformations not to be committed to irreligion and infidelity, 560; not to be committed to political parties, 561.

THE SYSTEM OF THE JEWISH CABBALAH, AS DEVELOPED IN THE ZOHAR, 563-581

By Dr. Theoph. Rubinsohn.

Introduction, 563; system of the Jewish Cabbalah, 564; motto of the Cabbalah, 565; obstacles presented to the Cabbalists in God's government of the

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universe, 566; the Sephiroth not identical with God, 569; doctrine of God's concentration, 570; inconceivableness of God's substance, 571; attributes, 572; Cabbalistic tree, 574; chief method of the Cabbalah, 576; system summed up, 571.

PROLEGOMENA TO TISCHENDORF'S NEW EDITION OF THE SEPTUAGINT, 581-608

Translated from the Latin by Charles Short, M. A., Philadelphia.

[Continued on p. 82, Vol. X.]

Value of the Septuagint, 581; editions of, 582; Editio Romana, 585; Letter of Antonia Caraga, 586; preface to the reader, 587; decree of Sixtus V., 592; addenda to the notes, 593; departures from the Vatican Edition, 594; accentuation, 596; emendations, 600.

MESSIANIC PROPHECIES,

By Professor B. B. Edwards, Andover.

609-622

Messianic anticipations as entertained by the pious Hebrews, 610; importance of ascertaining the exact position of those whose language we would interpret, 611; Messianic prophecies not impaired by proneness of the Jews to sin, 612; abruptness of passing to or from the prophecies no objection to them, 613; general belief in the pagan world of a coming deliver to be explained by the Messianic prophecies, 614; positive evidence in the New Testament of such predictions, 615; how to decide when a passage is Messianic, 616; interpretation of the 110th Psalm, 619.

NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

623-641

Tischendorf's Greek Testament, 623; Kühner's Greek Grammar, 629; Owen's Greek Reader, 632; The Study of Words, 633; Conybeare and Howson's Life and Labors of the Apostle Paul, 638; History of the Second Church in Boston, 641.

SELECT THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE,

Asia, 642; Germany, 644; Great Britain, 647; France, 651.

NOTICE OF PROFESSOR B. B. EDWARDS,

By Professor E. A. Park, Andover.

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642-656

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DR. KARL GOTTLIEB BRETSCHNEIDER,

654

657-686

Translated from the German by Professor George E. Day, Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio.

[Continued on p. 229, Vol. X.]

Childhood, 659; school-life in Chemnitz, 663; university life in Leipsic, 667; candidate life, 676; Dresden examination, 680; teacher in the university, 683.

VESTIGES OF CULTURE IN THE EARLY AGES,

By M. P. Case, M. A., Newburyport, Mass.

686-700

Details of the pre-historic periods, lost, 687; evidences of a high culture in the early ages, 688; tradition, 689; general belief in human deterioration, 690; actual traces of an early culture, 690; Egyptian monuments, 691; evidences of a primitive civilization in the relics of an early faith, 693.

PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ADAPTED TO BE THE RELIGION OF THE WORLD, 701-730

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By Charles White, D. D., President of Wabash College, Ia. Evidence of its own truth and divinity, 701; its special sympathy and provision in behalf of the poor, 704; its large and generous spirit of liberty, 707; its great divine method of mercy, 711; its great power over the character of men, 715; its elements of difference, 723.

ISLAMISM,

730-745

By Rev. James M. Hoppin, Salem, Mass.

Origin of Islamism, 731; character of Mohammed, 733; cause of the rapid success of his faith, 734; its affiliation to the oriental character, 735; its mixture of the true with the false, 736; Moslem fatalism, 738; prescriptive duties of Islamism, 740; its civil morality, 741; conclusion, 742.

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By Professor Enoch Pond, Bangor Theological Seminary. Pelagian theory, 746; evangelical theory, 747; objections to the latter theory, 748; sinful character of infants, 749–752; how they are sinful, 753; how they are to be saved, 759.

THE ALLEGED DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN PAUL AND JAMES, 761-782 By Professor E. P. Barrows, Andover.

Reason for the investigation, 762; points of agreement, (1) true faith is essentially connected with good works, 762; (2) those who do righteousness shall be justified and saved, 763; quotation from Neander's Commentary on James, 764; no saving efficacy in good works without faith, 765; Pauline view, 767; De Wette's view, 768; date of The Epistle of James, 769 sq.; objections against its early origin, 772 sq.; exposition of the last six verses of the second chapter, 780.

LIFE AND SERVICES OF PROFESSOR B. B. EDWARDS,

783-821

A Discourse delivered June 25, 1852, in the Chapel of the Andover Theological Seminary. By Edwards A. Park, Andover.

Birth, 783; childhood, 784; college life, 785; early religious life, 786; life at the seminary, 788; tutor in Amherst College, 789; assistant secretary

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of the American Education Society, 790; an editor, 792; philanthropist, 796; a preacher, 799; a teacher, 803; a theologian, 807; a scholar, 811; a christian, 813; a man, 814; in his family, 815; sickness, 816; death, 817; burial, 818; conclusion, 820.

Sketch of Justin MARTYR,

By Professor C. E. Stowe, Andover.

821-830

Birth and early life, 822; conversion, 824; becomes a missionary, 824; order of public worship, 825; extracts from his apologies, 827; summary of his theological system, 829.

NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

831-840

Trailll's Josephus, 831; Works of Richard Whately, D. D., Archbishop of Dublin, 835; Memorial of Dr. Popkin, 837; Paul's Analysis of the Hebrew Text of the Book of Genesis, 838; Professor Barrows's Memoir of Mr. Judson, 840.

SELECT LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE,

841-846

Germany, 841; the Netherlands, 844; Sweden, 845; Great Britain, 845.,

SOCRATES AS A TEACHER,

VOLUME X.

By Professor William S. Tyler, Amherst College.

1-33

Universality of his genius, 2; engaged in different pursuits, 3; an orator by force of genius, 3; chiefly known as the moral philosopher, 4; his proper vocation that of a teacher, 5; his modesty as a teacher, 6; he taught in all places, 7; sought to educate the people, 8; published nothing, 9; aimed to establish a method of education based on the nature of the being to be educated, 9; inculcated the necessity of self-knowledge as the foundation of all knowledge, 12; humility and modesty the fruit of self-knowledge, 14; Socratic method, in its early stages, rather negative than positive, 17; he patiently taught one thing at a time, 19; regarded education as a development from within, 21; the method of question and answer suited to this view, 23; reduced all knowledge to its first principles, 25; insisted on the symmetrical education of the whole man, 27; regarded himself as only an instrument of Divine Providence, 30.

THE RIGHT INTERPRETATION OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES
HELPS AND THE HINDRANCES,

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By Professor C. E. Stowe, Andover.

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Great advances in the science of Biblical interpretation, 34; Professor Stuart's services, 35; advice still to be made, 36; the Bible, as addressed to

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