to Archbishop Trench's work on the Parables, whose rule of not pushing the details of the parables too far he has followed (we think) with such strictness as occasionally to miss some interesting lessons which may be drawn from them without straining. He is, however, too anxious to find in them the doctrine of Final Restoration, a doctrine upon which he also insists very strongly in a second publication, entitled "Ten Manchester Lectures," and boldly urges this view as beyond dispute:
"There is a great deal in the Bible that looks like an affirmation of some kind of eternal punishment; but if you could shew me the place where it is plainly taught, I confess I would not believe it. What is a text of Scripture to me, when my reason, my moral sense, and all the best instincts of my nature, rebel against what the text affirms ?”+
These lectures were delivered, we believe, in the Corn Exchange at Manchester, to a miscellaneous audience. They are well adapted to such a purpose, and would leave a strong impression on the minds of thoughtful working people who might assemble to hear them. Some of the theses (as, e.g., the true way in which man is saved by faith) are treated in a novel and original way. We were especially interested in the first lecture, on the True Nature of Christianity, which might advantageously be printed by itself as a tract for wide distribution. But in their complete form, these lectures are issued at so low a price that they may readily meet with the large circulation they merit.
"Church Comprehension," a pamphlet which assumes the form of a letter to Mr. Gladstone, is an elaborate and able attempt to overcome the practical difficulties which are at once suggested by its title. No doubt they might be overcome, if men of all sects and churches were willing to think the effort desirable, and to make the necessary sacrifices of principle and prejudice. But if not? If only a large-hearted Christian here and there cares for Church comprehension at all, except upon the supposition that his own Church shall swallow up and digest all the rest? The
*Ten Manchester Lectures. London: Whitfield. 1868.
Church Comprehension: a Letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. London: Longmans. 1868.
author of this pamphlet possibly does not read the signs of the times as we are reluctantly compelled to do. To us, all ecclesiastical tendencies are in the direction of disintegration, and our only present hope for comprehension is in the complete pulverizing of existing religious organizations, and the desire for unity which may possibly grow out of it. For the details of the scheme, which are worked out with much ingenuity, we must refer our readers to the pamphlet itself. We desire also earnestly to recommend an essay "On Certain Moral Aspects of Money-getting," by Dr. Gairdner, Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the University of Glasgow, in which a question which excites far too little interest is treated with much intellectual ability and moral straightforwardness.
* On Certain Moral Aspects of Money-getting. By W. T. Gairdner, M.D., &c. &c. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co. 1868.
AGE OF THE WORLD: RECENT SPECULATIONS AS TO THE AGE OF THE WORLD,
567. Biblical chronology, 568. Attempt to date a geological epoch by Mr.
Croll, 571. By Sir C. Lyell, 575. By Sir W. Thomson, 577. By Professor
Huxley, 580.
AGRICULTURAL LABOURER, THE CONDITION OF, 107. Class of Englishmen
little known, 107. Village life knowledge of the poor by clergyman,
squire and Dissenting minister, 108. Education of the peasantry, 111. Con-
dition of cottages, 114. Public-houses and public rooms, 115. Women's
work, 117. Chastity of the agricultural poor, 119. Their religion, 122.
Pauperism, 125.
Discoveries of
Copies of oldest
Use of square
Suspicious points
Karaite Jews, 478.
ANCIENT TOMB INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CRIMEAN JEWS, 463.
Firkowitsch, 463. Description of Tschufutkaleh, 464.
inscriptions, 465. Chronological eras used in them, 468.
character, 469. What became of the ten tribes? 470.
in these inscriptions, 472. Evidence of geology, 477.
Codices in the Firkowitsch collection, 481.
ANTHONY, CHARLES, Jun., author of article, "On Pulpit Reform," 546.
BEARD, CHARLES, author of article, "Conformity from a Nonconformist Point
of View," 292.
BELGIUM AND HOLLAND: A FEW NOTES ON THE RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF
BELGIUM AND Holland, and ESPECIALLY ON THE CHURCH AND SEMINARY OF
THE REMONSTRANTS AT AMSTERDAM, 91. Movement of theological thought
in the Low Countries, 91. M. Bost, of Verviers, 92. Universities of Hol-
land, 94. M. Scholten, 95. M. Cobet, 96. Leyden, 96. Remonstrant
seminary at Amsterdam, 99. M. Tideman, 99. Synod of the Remonstrants,
103. Remonstrant Church at Amsterdam, 104. Athenæum of Amsterdam,
105.
Blunt, J. H., “The Annotated Book of Common Prayer,” reviewed, 292.
BOWRING, SIR JOHN, LL.D., author of article, "On the Influence of Profitable
Prison Labour upon the Reformation of Criminals," 415.
Brodrick, G. C., and Freemantle, W. H., "Collection of the Judgments of the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Ecclesiastical Cases," reviewed,
292.
Bunsen, Baroness, "Memoir of Baron Bunsen," &c., reviewed, 440.
BUNSEN, C. C. J., 440. Book too big, 441. Bunsen's birth and childhood,
442.
Early and college life, 443. Impressions made by the Theologia
Germanica, 444. Bunsen a travelling tutor, 446. Settlement and marriage
at Rome, 448. Composition of a Liturgy, 449. Minister at Rome, 450.
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Friendship with the Crown Prince of Prussia, 452. Visit
to England, 455. Mission to England, 456. The Bishopric of Jerusalem,
456. Estimate of Bunsen's literary work, 458.
461.
Declining years and death,
C. K. P., author of note to Art. VII., No. XIX., "Liddon's Sermons," 161.
CARPENTER, J. E., author of article, "The Epistle of Jude and the Prophecy
and Assumption of Moses," 259.
"Church, the, and the World," Second Series, Essays on Questions of the
Day: edited by Orby Shipley, M. A., noticed, 155. Ditto, Third Series, 592.
"Church Comprehension," noticed, 600.
CHURCH, THE, OF ENGLAND, AND WHO SHOULD STOP IN IT, 482. Practical diffi-
culties arising from changing thought and unchanging creeds, 483. Duty of
teachers of religion, 486. Of the laity, 487. Question of State Church or
Voluntaryism, 489. The Church of England national, 490. Danger of
turning the Church into a dominant sect, 492. Fallacy of common Volun-
taryism, 493. No expectation of immediate widening of the Church, 496.
Question of Conformity for those who are outside, 497. Of continued Con-
formity, 498. Criticism of previous articles upon this subject, 502. Diffi-
culties attendant upon public prayer, 504. Conclusion, 506.
COBBE, FRANCES POWER, author of articles, "The New Creed and the Old, in
their Secular Results," 26. "The Church of England, and who should stop
in it," 482.
CONFORMITY FROM A NONCONFORMIST POINT OF VIEW, 292. New law of sub-
scription ineffectual to increase Conformity, 293. Bitterness of controversy
between Conformity and Nonconformity, 293. Object of the paper, 294.
Obligation of subscription, 294. Moral obligation not determined by the
legal, 296. Attempted distinction between believing and teaching, 297.
Are the Articles articles of peace? 298. Scope of subscription, 299. Obli-
gations involved in the use of the Liturgy, 300. The Baptismal Service,
302. The Communion Office, 304. Form of ordaining Priests, 304.
Creeds, 306. Case not quite the same in each of the three Creeds, 307.
Doctrinal position of the Church practically unchanged, 308. Conclusion,
309.
CONFORMITY: THE OBLIGATIONS OF CONFORMITY IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
401. Probable effect of disestablishment, 401. Conformity a question of
fact for Conformists, 403. Historical statement, 404. Actual condition of
things, 460. Universal consent as to implied conditions of Conformity, 408.
The Liturgy and the Creeds, 410. The purpose of subscription, 412.
Cranbrook, J., "The Founders of Christianity," noticed, 596.
CREATION, THE, I. Distinction between the story of the Creation and the
patriarchal history, 2, Matter not treated from the scientific side, 3.
Translation of Genesis i. 1-ii. 3, 4, 5. Principle of syntax peculiar to
the Hebrew language, 6. Commentary on the translation v. 1-3, 7. Paral-
lel with the Proem of the fourth Gospel, 12. Continuation of commentary,
14, 15. Sacredness of the number seven, 16. Institution of the Sabbath,
17. Correspondence between the first three and last three days, 18. Story
of the Creation to be divided into two corresponding parts, 20.
CREATION, THE, II., 224. Second account of Creation: translation of it, 224.
Discrepancies between this and the first account, 228. In the story of the
formation of man, 230. First account physical; second, religious, 232.
Difference in the name of God, 233. Other differences of language, 235.
Other passages of the Old Testament which speak of the Creation, 237.
Comparison of these with Gen. i. ii., 241. Inference as to the date of
Gen. i., 243.
CREATION, THE, III., 334.
Other passages of the Old Testament in which
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