A. Alger's History of the Doctrine of a
Future Life, noticed, 870. Analytic of Logical Forms, New, arti- cle on, 673.
Arnold, Prof. A. N., article by, 816. Athanasius and the Arian Contro-
versy, article on, by C. F. Schaef- fer, D.D., 1.
Atwater, Prof. L. H., article by, 65. Author of the Apocalypse, The, article
on, by Prof. R. D. C. Robbins, 319. Reasons for the following discussion, 319; the majority of leading German writers deny the apostolic origin of the Apocalypse, 319; the Apocalypse discarded at the beginning of the Reformation, 320; External arguments the belief and testimony of the early fathers, and the church itself, 322; the shepherd of Hermas, 322; Ig- natius, 322; Polycarp, 323; Pa- pius, 323; Melito, 324; Justin Martyr, 325; many indirect yet plain references to the Apocalypse, 326; Polycrates, 326; Eusebius and Irenaeus, 327; Hippolytus, 330: Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian, 331; Origen, 332; Cyp- rian, Victorinus, and writers of the fourth century, 333; Augustine and Jerome, 334; authority of certain councils, 335; the alleged testimony against the authorship of the Apocalypse, 335; the objec- tions of the opponents of the Mon- tanists, 336; of Marcion, 336; of Caius, 337; the testimony of Di- onysius of Alexandria, 339; hesi- tation of Eusebius, 343; the objec- tion, that the Apocalypse is not in the Peschito version, 344; proof that John the Apostle was the au- thor from declarations in the book, 551; assertions in the book, that the author's name was John, 551; no other designation, given with
the name of John, 552; the diocese of the Apostle John in the region of the seven churches, 552; the words "I, John, who am also your brother," etc., in ch. i. 9, 553; objections to the Johannean au- thorship in the words "Rejoice over her, Heaven," etc. xix. 20; and xxi. 14, 555; alleged differ- ences in the general characteristics of the Apocalypse and other writ- ings of John, 556; the general differences alleged, unimportant, 558; many points of agreement between John's writings, 559; the external victories of Christ neces- sarily prominent in the Apocalypse, 560; the symbolic mystical char- acter of the Apocalypse, 561; it has an air of severity and sharp- ness, 561; the manner of quoting from the Old Testament, 563; pe- culiarities of style, 564; its irregu- larity and abruptness of style, 565; the Hebraistic character of the style, 567; words found in the other writings and not in the Apoc- alypse, and the reverse, 569; proof of Jobannean authorship in the use or omission in the Apocalypse of the same words as in the other writings of John, 573; similarity of imagery in the Apocalypse and John's other writings, 577; Christ the bridegroom of the church, 577; voice and hearing used in a figu- rative sense, hunger and thirst and the water of life, 577; likeness of sentiment to the Gospel and Epistles, 578; a necessary difference in re- gard to invisible and spiritual agen- cy, 580; different representations of antichrist, 581; a double resur- rection, 582; recapitulation, 582. Authorship of the Pentateuch, article on, by Samuel C. Bartlett, D.D, 495; authorship, a matter of toxi- mony, 495; recapulation of former
arguments, 496; the testimony in favor of the Mosaic authorship, remarkably strong, 497; deniers of this authorship would make light of an explicit statement to that effect in the Pentateuch, 498; they make light of the authority of Christ and the apostles, 499; the evidence for the Mosaic authorship, liable to no decisive or even strong objection, 500; the objections of Dr. Davidson to be particularly noticed, 500; objectors confine themselves to what is called "the higher criti- cism" in reference to the contents of the Pentateuch, 501; positive objections, statements and allu- sions incompatible with the Mosaic authorship, 502; Von Bohlen's ob- jections, 502; arithmetical errors, 502; the numbering of the people near the Red Sea, 504; impossibil- ity of procuring lambs for the pass- over, 507; the great disproportion of families in the first census, 509; disproportion of the numbers of first-born sons to the fighting men, 509; errors in regard to the wilder- ness, 511; this class of objections an appeal to our ignorance of facts, 511; the turtle doves not to be found in the wilderness, 511; the wilderness not a region utterly desolate, 513; the Sinaitic penin- sula, not now a scene of utter des- olation, 514; statements on this subject from Dr. Robinson and other travellers, 516; as to the desert between the Red Sea and the southern border of Palestine, 519; the present condition of the desert, not an index of its former productiveness, 523; statement of undeniable facts in proof of this, 523; the conditions under which the march of the Israelites was performed, 526; quotation from Bunsen in regard to the condition of the wilderness, 528; historical and other notices in the Penta- teuch implying a post-Mosaic ori- gin, 529; changes may have been made in the text, 530; objection from the statement that "the Ca- naanite was then in the land," 532; the words "In Kirjath Arba, the
same is Hebron," 533; the name "Hormah" in Num. xiv. 45, an anachronism, 535; Gen. xxxvi. 31, "these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king over Israel,” 536; Gen. xl. 15, "I was taken away out of the land of the Hebrews," 537; Lev. xviii. 28 "That the land spue not you out also when ye defile it," etc., 537; Ex. vi. 26, 27, "These are that Moses and Aaron to whom the Lord said," etc., 538; Ex. xi. 3, "Moreover the man Moses was very great," etc., 538; Num. xii. 3, "Now the man Moses was very meek," 539; the formula" unto this day," 539; the names Dan and Laish, 549; Ex. xvi. 35, 36, " And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years," etc., 542; Moses' knowing the situation of Gerizim and Ebal impossible, 543; from the name Gilgal, 544; the shekel of the sanc- tuary, 544; the word "prophet," 545; Num. xv. 32, the man that gathered sticks on the Sabbath, 545; supposed proofs that the writ- er of the Pentateuch must have lived in Palestine, 546; "legendary and traditional elements, involving insuperable inconsistencies," an ob- jection to the Mosaic authorship, 549; consideration of certain neg- ative objections, 725; striking omis- sions, 725; insufficient difference between the language of the Pen- tateuch and that of books written about the time of the captivity, 726 this objection admits of a threefold answer, 726; the pro- gressive character of the legislation, 730; the unsuitableness of sections and paragraphs, often noticed in the Pentateuch, 731; repetitions and alleged contradictions, 732; narratives of different transactions sometimes brought in as duplicate accounts of the same, 734; dupli- cate and conflicting etymologies, 736; discrepant statements, 787; the incorporation of pre-existing materials, 738; the fundamental principle of this objection, arbitrary, 739; simple facts, explained by
assumptions far more difficult, 740; | Beecher's Redeemer and Redeemed,
the chief statements on which the objection rests will not bear ex- amination, 741; the positions taken cannot be consistently carried out, 742; the method of argument used by objectors loose and vicious, 744; view taken of the subject by Christian scholars, 747.
Bartlett, S. C., D.D., articles by, 495, 725.
Bearing of Modern Scientific Theories
on the Fundamental Truths of Re- ligion, The, article on, by Andrew P. Peabody, D. D., 710; statement of the subject, the great doctrines of Christian Theism, untouched by the discoveries of modern sci- ence, 711; Pantheism as found in the Greek philosophy, to be rev- erenced, 711; the Pantheistic ten- dency has, of late, been made de- terminate by certain scientific theo- ries, 712; none of these theories, valid against Christian truths, 713; our personality not inseparable from our bodily organism, 713; the relation of these scientific the- ories to miracles, 714; the admis- sion of these does not exclude the possibility of miracles, 714; no physical theory can negative the historical facts of the New Testa- ment, 715; the same is true of the divine element in the scriptures. 716; the development-theories im- ply the divine personality, 717; pantheism cannot account for the beginning of the universe, 717; un- beginning existence necessary,718; the bearing of general laws on the question of divine personality, 719; the ordinary course of nature, gov- erned by general laws, either uni- form or variable, 719; uniformity implies mind, 720; this especially true in the light of the latest pha- sis of physical science, 720; no such harmony in nature as to ex- clude the necessity of a personal God, 721; illustrative examples, 722; the divine personality should be recognized in relation to our present national struggle, 723.
Bengel's Gnomon, noticed, 213. Bird, Rev. F. W., articles by, 127, 284.
Brethren of Christ, The, article on, by Philip Schaff, D.D., 855. Brigham, Rev. C. H., article by, 89. Brugsch's Works, noticed, 666.
Caraites, The, article on, by Rev. Charles H. Brigham, 39; residence of the Caraites in Jerusalem, 89; origin of their name, 40; the sect but little known, 40; the origin of Caraism, 40; Caraism, a resuscita- tion of Sadducism, 41; the Cara- ites, as resembling the ancient Sadducees, 42; a preparation for Caraism in the inventions of the Maronites, 43; the labors of Acha and Mocha, 43; of Chahib and Pinchas, 43; a preparation for Ca- raism in the pretended Messiahs of the eighth century, 44; Anan ben David, the founder of the sect, 47; he taught the spirituality of God, 49; his views of Christ and the founder of Islam, 49; his method in the interpretation of the scrip- tures, 50; his alteration of the Jewish Calendar, 50; his theory of the Sabbath, 52; claims for new religious teachers a respectful hearing, 53; and the right and duty of free inquiry, 53; proclaims the duty of missionary labor and the dignity of the prophetic office, 54; four peculiarities of the Cara- ites, 55; death of Anan - his suc- cessors, 55; Nissi ben Noah, 56; Benjamin ben Moses, 57; Daniel ben Moses el Kumassi, 58; Schod- gan, 59; the progress of Caraism, greatly influenced by two Moslem sects, 60; Caraite doctors in the latter half of the ninth century, 60; Eldad ha Dani, 60; Chawi-el- Balchi, 61; the Caraites of this period not rationalists, 62; the highest stage of Caraism in the year 900, 63; some communities of Caraites still remaining, 64. Chudbourne, Prof. P. A., article by,
Chester's Memoirs of John Rogers, noticed, 440.
Clark, Rev. S. D., article by, 449. Clark's Daleth, or the Homestead of
the Nations, noticed, 443. Coleman, Lyman, D.D., article by,
Confidence, the youngest Daughter of
Caution, article on, by Leonard Withington, D.D., 180; the Bible everywhere gives token that it comes from an omniscient mind, 180; all the principles of the Bi- ble rest on a stable foundation, 180; the Bible makes provision for evils which did not exist when it was written, 182; its provisions in ref- erence to objections which science would hereafter raise, 183; infan- tine views taken in the Bible of the material creation, 183; the Bi- ble has made provision for these objections, 184; it has not foretold these objections, 185; the Bible teaches the ignorance of man and his ignorance after discovery, 185; fulness and completion not to be ascribed to a science prematurely, 187; the Bible clearly insulates its own province and knows nothing beyond it, 188; it frequently cau- tions us to beware of philosophy, 189; geologists too dogmatic, 192; the attempts of geologists to recon- cile the first chapter of Genesis with geological discoveries, 194; quotation from Calvin's Commen- taries, 195; Moses did not intend to teach geology, 197; many inter- pretations of the Bible by geolo- gists too dogmatic and positive, 198; the premature joy felt by scientific men at some alleged sim- ilitude, 200; geologists should be less articulate and definite, 202; the opinion that geology alone proves a supernatural interposition among the operations of nature,
Correspondence, Editorial, 205. Craik's History of English Literature, noticed, 439.
Dana's Text Book of Geology, noticed,
Day, Prof. H. N., article by, 673. Doctrinal Attitude of the Old School Presbyterians, The, article on, by Prof. Lyman H. Atwater, 65. Doctrine of God's Providence, in it- self, and in its Relations and Uses, The, article on, by Benjamin W. Dwight, D.D., 584; society ever slowly oscillating from one ex- treme to another, 584; the highest religious thought culminates in the realization of God's personal prov- idence, 584; the imagination ex- erts its highest powers in bringing home the immortal objects of re- vealed faith, 585; God, the neces- sary counterpart to our own being, 587; our capabilities for realizing great divine truth, cannot now be fully divined, 587; the fact of God's providence, 588; this fact intimated on every page of the Bible, 588; testified to by human experience, and especially in Chris- tianity, 589; God's providence always in an incomplete condition, 590; God's providence testified to in the natural sciences, 591; the characteristic features of God's providence, 592; its origination in the humanity of God's heart, 592; the vast comprehensiveness of the plan of God's providence, 593; the government of the world by general laws, 594; God's mak- ing all things conduce to the suc- cessful issue of his universal provi- dence, 597; his own inexorable withdrawment from human view in the management of his provi- dence, 598; his patience in the execution of his purposes, 593; two leading authropomorphic concep- tions of God's providence, 600; the interior principles of the ad- ministration of God's providence, 601; they are twofold in their form or style, being either those of direct agency or simple permission, 601; God's decrees, 601; God's de- crees of two sorts, absolute and con- ditional, 603; forms and directions of God's permissive providence, 604; he allows full scope to evil human action, 604; he allows men to sway the characters and desti-
nies of others, 605; vast negations of attainable good to preceding generations, G07; great inequali- ties allowed in human experience, 608; the promotion of the greatest good the final end of God's provi- dence, 609; in all outward change, God ever the same, 610; the con- nection of God's providence with other things, 611; the course of na- ture, fore-ordained, 611; vitalized by the will of God, 612; the su- preme blessings of life, spiritual, 613; good often conferred without any use of the outward course of nature, 613; three ways of con- ceiving of God's sovereignty, 615; connections of divine providence with human agency, threefold, 616; grace the constant form of his sovereign good will to men, 616; the immediate designs of God's providence to perfect virtue in the human heart, 616; men have but little power to interpret God's providences, 617; mistakes of those who deny divine interest in human affairs, 617; God's providence has vast and universal bearings, 618; the function and value of miracles, 619; the connection of God's prov- idence with his own feelings con- cerning it, 620; God has demon- strated his love of beauty, 622; thorns and briars have their moral uses, 623; diseases teach useful moral lessons, 625; the elements of nature held in quiet action for man's good, 627; the great generic forms of God's providence, 628; his maintenance of the course of nature, 628; the laws of social life and order, 628; his gift of ordinary daily blessings, 628; his gift of spiritual blessings, 630; great moral lessons to be drawn from the doc- trine of God's providence, 632; the doctrine not used as it should be in the pulpit, 633.
Duns, John, D.D., article by, 163. Duns's Biblical Natural Science, not- iced, 210.
Dwight, B. W., Dr., article by, 584.
Egyptology, Oriental Travel and Dis-
covery, articles on, by J. P. Thomp- son, D.D., 425, 666. Examination of Philip. iii. 2 and Rev. xx. 4, article by Prof. John J. Owen,362; the resurrection spoken of in Philip., a resurrection of the righteous dead, 363; why should Paul have so earnestly labored to attain to this resurrection, 364; the resurrection to which he as- pired of a more special significancy, 365; the Greek word used, not ἀνάστασις but ἐξανάστασις, 365 ; the latter term equivalent to resurrec- tion from the dead in 1 Pet. i. 3, and Acts iv. 2, 366; "the dead does not mean the wicked dead, 367; a prior resurrection of the pious dead taught elsewhere in the New Testament, 368; the day of judgment not a day of twenty-four hours, 369; a prior resurrection plainly taught in Rev. xx. 4, 5, 370; the thousand years of Satan's confinement and of the martyr- reign not contemporaneous, 371; the prior resurrection physical, and not merely symbolical, 871; what persons are to reign in the second thousand years, 373; the "living again" here spoken of, a revival of the martyr spirit, 873; not a mere increase of happiness and joy for departed saints, 375; it is a resurrection of the bodies of saints and martyrs, 375; this proved by the antithetical meaning of ἀνέζησαν and (noav, 376; no violation of scripture analogy in this interpre- tation, 378; what class of persons meant in the words "the rest of the dead," 379; it means the pious dead, 379; this confirmed by the expression" this is the first resur- rection," 379; this idea may be taught nowhere else in the scrip- tures, 381; no valid objection that it supposes some saints raised to heaven without passing through the judgment, 381.
Final Cause of Varieties, article on, by Prof. P. A. Chadbourne, 348; varieties produced by the variation of species, 348; the final cause of
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