we venture a suggestion to some of these unprogressive enterprises of which we have been speaking, and to certain communities that are anxious to start more of them.
We suggest that they give their house of worship, after paying up the mortgages on it, to some destitute county in Minnesota. It would furnish from two to twelve houses for such humble and tough piety as they have there. We suggest that they give their pastor to the Aroostook, and his annual salary to support half a dozen more ministers there. What a contribution for one feeble church! A minister and salaries for six, as its annual donation! But they can do it by walking a mile. A contribution of from nine hundred to three thousand annually by one feeble church that can now hardly keep itself alive! And all this after paying its proportion for sustaining worship in the inviting and half filled church a mile off.
As some gracious return for such benevolence the self-denial and exercise of walking a mile to worship God will impart to a formerly weak piety something of the vigor and hardiness of frontier religion. The idea, moreover, will prove a positive and constant Christian luxury that one, for Christ's sake and the destitute, has given up a church enterprise not needed, and is now giving as much for Home Missions, as he once gave to have his own will. And all by walking a mile to
Ar last we have the creed of the "Broad Church," at least upon one point of importance. Bread and the Newspaper in the September Atlantic enlightens our darkness on this long dubious subject. The credo aforesaid is this that all the poor fellows who fall (on our side, that is,) in the war now raging, are therefore sure of a place in Abraham's bosom. The Divinity professor of the Broad Church (at the corner of Washington and School streets) affirms this, and notifies the "Narrow Church" that its presence is not wanted at the funeral rites of such. We heartily wish that every soldier of our flag was a soldier also of Christ. We know that many of them are. But we remember no gospel voucher to the saving efficacy of lead and gunpowder per se. This dogma smacks a little of the Koran ; — heaven to all who die in arms against the Infidel. We think that we recollect a good deal said in various autocratic and other talks, about the odium theologicum. Have we here an attempt to smother the orthodox with a puff of the odium patriot-icum? After all, however, our Medical Doctor of Doctrines has not widened his ecclesiastical longitude so very much bounding it thus, as he does, by Mason's and Dixon's line.
THE Reverend Pyro Technics preached a splendid sermon last Sunday evening at the Church of the Holy Vanity on "Man Etherial and Explosive; the Heroism of Dogmatism," which kept the audience a full hour. We are induced to refer to this wonderful performance, partly that the congregation at the Holy Vanity may know what a very remarkable minister they have, and partly, also, that the natives in general may know. Such a candle must not be put under a bushel. Be it ours to set it on a stick. Then all around may see and admire, and another pleasant illustration will be supplied of Mr. Shakspeare's observation, —
"How far that little candle throws his beams."
We have heard of a minister who always made it a point to enter tain his funeral audiences with the good qualities of the deceased — on the charitable "nisi bonum principle of the old poet. Of course, his stock of eulogistic material sometimes was decidedly scanty. On one occasion, all that he could say was this that the departed was said to have been a capital hand in running to fires. If some of our religious newspapers, and even pulpits, should give up the ghost, we have a notion that the thing, which would be most characteristically remembered about them, would be their skill in playing the cold-water hose on consciences that should rather be kept in a quick blaze of awakening under the truth and spirit of the Lord.
WE cannot close the first volume of the Boston Review without an expression of devout gratitude to the Author of Truth for the favor he has shown to our endeavors.
In the opening of unprecedented civil and commercial reverses in the country we commenced this work. We looked for neither popular credit nor pecuniary profit.
We entered into it because we thought that Evangelical truth and the Great Master asked of us the sacrifice.
In the number of friends discovered and in the variety and quality of the communications offered us, in the number of subscribers obtained, and in the very extensive and favorable notices of the Review by the press, we have succeeded beyond our best expectations.
We are now prepared to enter into another year of this work with stronger hopes, and greater energy, and with a wider and more cordial offer of theological and literary resources.
About Beginnings, - ΠΕΡΙ ΑΡΧΩΝ. Αr- 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 Associatious 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.
Annihilation of the wicked, theory of, ex- amined, 445.
Apocalyptic symbols, Generic Application of, article on, 398. Arminianism, 287.
Augustine and his mother, 363.
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 I., 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, 342; 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,
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,
Lord Bacon's Personal History, noticed,
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, 262.
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.
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