About Beginnings, — ПEPI APXÓN. Ar- ticle on, 1; omens of the times, in mot- tled theology, deficient creeds, divided ecclesiastical councils, contempt of doctrines, 1; growing anxiety and de- sire for better things, 4; hopeful signs in State Associations of Massachusetts and Connecticut, 5; what is meant by principles, 7; power of theological ones, 9; mental and moral deficiencies of those who sneer at them, 11; charity for er- rorists must have a limit, 13; the place for principles in religious systems and teachings, 16; characteristic of the New Theology to suppress doctrinal preach- ing. 17; why doctrines are dry to some, 18; how to preach them, 19; laymen should study them, 20.
Accidents or Providences, Which? Article on, 63; there is no real accident, 63; all events are providences, 64; false views of providence, 64; true view of, 65; Cal- vin on, 66; particular providence a ne- cessity, 67; human acts come under it, 68; little things not unworthy of God's notice, 70; providence does not infringe on free agency of man, 71; the doctrine of, mysterious, 72; a system of myste- rious providences necessary to proba- tion, 73; and of great comfort in afflic- tion, 73.
tutor to the Dauphin, 544; is denied a bishopric by Louis, 544; the Court of Louis XIV., 545; opposes Romish des- potism and the Jesuits, 547; draws the line between Church and State in France, 548; "The Discourse on Uni- versal History," his great work, 549; influence as a politician, 549; favors the persecution of the Protestants, 551; as a pulpit orator, 552; influence as a theologian, 557; controversy with the Protestants, 561; their error in opposing him, 563; his theology, 564; social char- acter, 566; his death, 567. Browning, Mrs. and Christian Poetry, ar- ticle on, 154.
Bull-Run Battle, and its teachings, 505. Bushnell's Christian Nurture, noticed, 411.
Canaan, not invaded, but repossessed by Israel, 472.
Carthage, Council of,on Infant Baptism, 21. Centres of Ministerial Influence, article on,
595; three classes of ministers with ref- erence to these centres, those who care little about them, 595; those who make them for themselves, 595; those who seek them as starting-points, 596; many failures in the third class, and why, 597; facts drawn from twenty such centres, 598; ministerial influence of these centres vitiated, 599; greater power and permanency of influence in rural settlements, 600.
Circumcision, as related to baptism, 24. Communing with Spirits, article on, 568; all outside of Christ's kingdom. under Satan, 568; his connection with idolatry affirmed by the Scriptures, 569; import of δαιμόνιος and διάβολος, 570; power of idolatry formerly much greater, 572; how Satan obtained such power, 574; use of magic, 575; the Egyptian magi- cians, 577; modern spiritualism, 578. Conscience, in its relations to belief and duty, 165.
Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, noticed, 92.
Creeds, article on, 489; danger of being sacrificed to union, 490; their origin, 491; the Apostles' creed, Nicene, Augs- burg, 492; relation of a church to, 494;
uses of, 496; a system of principles, 496; provide for unity of action through unity of opinion, 497; preserve definite expressions of truth, 498; helps in the study of the Scriptures, 499; benefit the children of the church, 500; promote personal religion, 502; and the spread of it through denominations, 502; are not divisive in their nature and tendency, 503.
Cyprian's Letter to Fidus, article on, 21.
Daniel Safford, Memoir of, noticed, 608. Decrees of God eternal, 586. Devil Worship, 568.
Dexter's Twelve Discourses, noticed, 201. Distinctions with a Difference, article on, 517; indifference with some to doctrine, 517; preaching of positive error, 518; J. M. Manning's sermon at Milford on total depravity, 518; the Universalists rejoice in it, 519; Isaac Taylor on enter- taining preachers, 521; true office of the church and pulpit, 522; the " Westmin- ster Review" on religious persecution, 522; what is toleration? 523; the dan- ger of the Evangelical church in New England, 525; her position wilfully mis- represented, 526.
Doctrinal Preaching, article on, 209; doc- trines are the foundation of all preach- ing, 209; the substance of Christianity, 210; duties grow out of them, 210; ser- mons powerless without them, 212; sub- stitutes for doctrines, 214; 'practical preaching," 214; must use doctrines to convict men, 219; why in modern re- vivals conviction and regeneration are less marked, 220.
Du Challau's Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, noticed, 604.
Edwin of Deira, noticed, 606. Election, 586.
Ellicott's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, noticed, 201. Elsie Venner, criticized, 384. Ephesians 1, 3-6, Exegesis on, 586. Escaping Oblivion, article on, 579; not by tombs and epitaphs, 579; nor by un- natural and cultivated oddities, 581; very little of history survives, 582; the principle on which any survives, 583; view of Charles Julius Hare, 583; Christ the centre of universal history, and so acts in love for him become of perma- nent record, 584.
Evenings with the Doctrines, noticed, 93. Exegesis, an, on Ephesians 1., 3-6, 586; the persons addressed are Christians, 586; are such in accordance with a previous purpose of God, 586; the pur-
pose was such as made the result a cer- tainty, 588; that purpose was eternal, 590; the predestination in the case was unto holiness, 591; and simply because it pleased God so to do, 591; the whole was the working and fruit of his grace, 592; objections to these truths answer- ed, 593.
Fear as a Christian Motive, article on, 165; it is a constitutional susceptibility, 166; manly to feel it, 167; we have great reason for it in our sins, 168; God uses it as a motive, 171; has been much used in leading to repentance, 172; should be appealed to, 173; is not one of the highest motives, 173.
Future Punishment, Will it be merely the Re- sults of Natural Laws? Article on, 113; the state of the impenitent dead the great theological question of the age, 114; fu- ture blessedness is more than the result of natural laws, 116; so future punish- ment may be, 117; God has punished in this world beyond such result, 118; the theory of punishment by natural laws alone destroys the governmental connection between sin and punish- ment, 119; on this theory one may abate all punishment, 120; it does not allow to adjust punishment to demerit, 121; does not allow to punish sins against the public welfare, 121; does not allow an atonement as possible, 123; nor pardon, 124; makes the gen- eral judgment a mere form, 125; show no just appreciation of sin, 126; this theory is corrupting our evangelical pulpits, 126.
vinism, 296; both greatly misrepresent- ed, 297. Historical Sketch of the Congregational Churches in Massachusetts, noticed, 197. Hitchcock's Religious Lectures on Peculiar Phenomena in the Four Seasons, noticed,
Holmes, O. W., his skepticism and infi- delity, 384.
Holy Spirit, The, in Troublous Times, ar- ticle on, 338; our need of him from the necessities of our nature, 340; for man has not intuitional knowledge of his re- lations and duties to God and his fel- lows, 340; and his experience is insuf- ficient, 341; so are speculation and hy- pothesis, 341; and he is depraved, 342; the miraculous character of revelation attests our need of it, 342; history shows that religion is not of human reason, 842; the Holy Spirit needed to apply a revelation already given, 343; we need him because of external difficulties, 347; if no Holy Spirit, there would be no church, 351; needed to check our idolatries as probationers, 353; specially speculative idolatry, 356. Homes of Literary Men, The, article on, 528; the country, 530; the rural clergy a literary class, 530; evil influences of city life and our Magazines on author- ship, 531; unfortunate influences of literary clubs, 533; rural life has given the best examples of literary life, 534; power of nature and the country on the mind and heart, 537.
Hudson on Annihilation reviewed, 445. Hudson's Debt and Grace, noticed, 412.
Idolatry, and Satan's connection with it, 568.
Immortality and Annihilation, article on,
445; what is a human soul, 446; its powers and adaptations indicate im- mortality, 448; the human soul pro- tests against annihilation, 450; to be rational assumes immortality, 452; the scheme of salvation presupposes im- mortality, 453; Christ did not die to se- cure immortality, 454; doctrine of an- nihilation inconsistent with the doctrine of future punishment, 455; Scripture views, 456.
Infant Baptism in the Early Church, 21. Itala Scriptures, what, 184.
It was Always So, or this age no worse than the preceding, 175.
Jerome and the Latin Scriptures, 184.
Laws, natural, and their agency in pun- ishment, 113.
Literary Men, Homes of, 528. Literary Notices, 87, 197, 302, 411, 507, 604
Lord Bacon's Personal History, noticed, 304.
Lyra Domestica, noticed, 303.
Macaulay's History of England, noticed,
Manual of English Pronunciation and Spelling, noticed, 605.
Memorial Volume of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, noticed, 608.
Metes and Bounds, Compass and Chain, article on, 313; doctrinal discussions necessary, 313; no new and true doc- trines in revealed theology, 315; "im- provements" in theology are mostly old errors revived, 316; each rising generation needs this doctrinal discus- sion, 317; the skepticism of the age demands it, 318; refusal to preach doc- trines ends in their rejection and in ra- tionalism, 319.
Minnie Carlton, noticed, 510. Monica, the Mother of Augustine, article on, 363.
Müller's Life of Trust, noticed, 87.
Nature-Worship; Its Root and its Fruit, article on, 77; naturalism and panthe- ism, 77; what is Nature-Worship? 79; bold infidelity of, in Theodore Parker, 82; corrupts our literature, 83. Northern Army, The Standard of, article on, 402; not emancipation, or popular sovereignty, or the will of majorities, but allegiance to government, as a di- vine institution, 404.
Old Unitarianism and New Orthodoxy, ar- ticle on, 261; New Orthodoxy in the "Essays and Reviews," or "Recent In- quiries in Theology" and the infidelity of the same, 264; Old Unitarianism re- jects these teachings of the Essays, 268; modern Unitarianism accepts them,
Paleareo's Benefits of Christ's Death, no- ticed, 199.
Plymouth Pulpit, Theology of, 129, 228. Poetry, Our Sea-Shore, 61.
Poetry, 61, 594.
Predestination, 586.
Latin Vulgate, The Origin of the, article Professor's Story, The, article on, 384; the on, 184.
author violates good taste in construct-
ing such a character as Elsie Venner, 384; and in the composition of his scenes, 387; false theology, 391. Providence, doctrine of particular, 63. Public Schools, Intellectual and Moral Cul- ture in, article on, 371: first designed for moral and religious culture, 371; the constitution of the State enjoins the culture of virtue in, 372; objections to this considered, that children should be left to form their own religious notions, 373; that religious teaching is not con- gruous with the school-room, 374; evil propensities of the children demand it, 376; that differences in religion among parents would make it impossible, 378. Pulpit of the American Revolution, noticed,
Repose of Faith, The, article on, 273; dis- cussions of the last few years between Faith and Infidelity, 273; mental state of the universal skeptic, 274; we are con- stituted for belief, 276; in what our faith can find repose, 279; no antago- nism between faith and reason, 280; na- ture and use of the miraculous, 281; revelation indispensable for the com- plete repose of faith, 284. Revelation, Book of, its symbols, explain- ed, 398.
Romance in Literature, The Place of, ar- ticle on, 460; Romance, what, 461; two divisions of literature, of fact, and of the imagination, 461; nature and use of the fancy, in writing, 463; rise of romance, 465; related to the Old Epic, 466; still has a place in our litera- ture, 468; where like and unlike the modern novel, 469; as having a moral character, 471.
Round Table, The, 95, 203, 308, 415, 514,
Tales of the Day, Original and Selected, noticed, 608.
Taylor's Method of Classical Study, no- ticed, 607.
Temptation of Jesus, Scheffer's Painting of the. 223.
Tennyson's Poems, One of, article on, 436. Texts, used and explained, Isa. 61: 1; Lk. 4: 18, 19; James 1: 17, 94; Lk. 22: 42; Rom. 7: 9, 195; Jn. 17: 23; Ps. 115: 1, 306; Mk. 2: 27; 1 Jn. 5: 17, 410; Isa. 60: 12; Isa. 1: 18, 511; 1 Cor. 9: 16; Eph. 4: 4, 602; Eph. 1: 3-6, 586. Theodore Parker, Who was he? 27. Theology of Plymouth Pulpit, The, article on, 129; assumes to be orthodox, 130; overlooks divine justice, human guilt, and condemnation, and the sacrifice of Christ, 133; ridicules the doctrines, 146; denies election, 148; has a creed, preaches it, and is consistent, 228, 255; broad church views, 230; views of the Sabbath and its observance, 236; of cards, games of chance, and theatres, 237; irreverence of the Bible, 241; pleads for infidelity, 247; strange views on the Trinity and the duty of Christ, 253; agreement with Morell, J. D., 256. Theology Old and New, article on, 97; characteristics of each, 98; need of constant discussion of, 99; who create divisions in schools, 105; new and spu- rious theology in New England, 106; remedy for, 111.
Thomas Paine, article on, in the New American Encyclopædia, noticed, 507. Transcendental Science, article on, show- ing its nature and use, 75.
Unitarianism and Orthodoxy, Old and New, 261.
Unitarians and Theodore Parker, 45. Uzzen-Sherah; and Israel's Right to Ca- naan, article on, 472.
Who was Theodore Parker? Article on, 27; Parker on Miracles, 27; infidel logic of, 28; existence of such a man doubt- ful by his own logic, 29; self-conceit of, 29; did he write his "Experience as a Minister?" 31; early religious experi- ence, 33; gross caricature of orthodoxy, 42; sensitiveness, 43; as related to Uni- tarianism, 45; bitter feelings towards the Bible, 45; not owned by the Uni- tarians, 50; individual notices of, 52; though the denomination is responsible for him, 56;
Wise's Vindication of the New England Churches, and the Churches Quarrel Es- poused, noticed, 198.
Worcester's Dictionary, noticed, 199.
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