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.
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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.
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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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