YAHVEH CHRIST, or the Memorial Name. By ALEXANDER MACWHORTER, Yale University. With an Introductory Letter, by Nathaniel W. Taylor, D. D., Dwight Professor of Didactic Theology, Yale Theological Seminary. 16mo, cloth, 62c.

The object of this work is to show that a most important error has hitherto been entertained respecting the Hebrew word given as "Jehovah, in the Old Testament. The author shows, by a historic-philological argument, that it was not "Jehovah," but YAHVEH,- that it does not mean "I AM" (self-existence), bnt HE WHO WILL BE, OR COME" (The Deliverer); in short, that the "Jehovah" of the Old Testament, and the Christ" of the New, denote one and the same being. EXTRACT FROM DR. TAYLOR'S INTRODUCTORY LETTER. The argument is altogether new and original; and if valid, proves what many of the ablest theologians have believed, without resting their belief upon grounds so thoroughly exegetical. It raises a question to be met wherever the Bible is read, a question in respect to a fact which it would seem, if not admitted, must at least be controverted. If the view here taken is erroneous, it is too plausible to be passed over with indifference by the friends of truth; if true, it is of unmeasured importance to the Church and to the world.

The book is an intensely interesting one; rich in suggestions with regard to the scheme of Providence and Grace as developed under both Dispensations, and presenting in its main topic a subject that is deserving of thorough investigation. We think it cannot fail to be widely circulated, and to attract in no small degree the attention of scholars. - CHICAGO CHRISTIAN TIMES.

This little volume is destined at least to awaken thought and attention, if not to accomplish all that the author expects of it. The argument to a cursory glance shows great probability, and is worth a serious attention. Ir his position could be demonstrated it would be one of vast importance to theology, and would give in some sense a new face to the Old Testament. Though the work relates to a Hebrew word, it is written in a form to be understood by all readers, and it deserves, what we have no doubt it will receive, a careful examination. - PURITAN Recorder.

It is refreshing in these days of many books, to fall in with an original work, laying open a new vein of thought, and leading the student to a novel train of investigations. Mr. MacWhorter is entitled to this rare distinction, for his conclusions will be entirely new to the large body of American scholars. We can commend the volume cordially to all readers who enjoy an investigation, marked by great thoroughness, ripe scholarship, and eminent candor, and written, too, in an animated and flowing style. We anticipate that the work must create a profound sensation in the theological world, for its conclusions are tenable; it puts at rest forever all doubts of the Divinity of Christ.-WatchMAN AND REFLECTOR.

HEAVEN. By JAMES WILLIAM KIMBALL. With elegant illustrated titlepage. 12mo, cloth, $1.00.

FROM PROF. HUNTINGTON, EDITOR OF THE RELIGIOUS MAGAZINE.-He has avoided the perilous and tempting extremes of rash or fanciful painting on the one side, or of a too exact and literal description on the other. One is surprised at the mental discipline, the variety of information, and the measure of literary skill evinced in the body of the work.

The book is full of beautiful ideas, consoling hopes, and brilliant representations of human destiny, all presented in a chaste, pleasing, and very readable style. -N. Y. CHRONICLE.

There is an air of freshness and originality about it, that will render it interesting even to some whose spirits have not caught the upward tendency. - PURITAN RECORDER.

This is a delightful volume, written by an active business man of this city, upon a subject which must always possess peculiar interest to the Christian. - N. E. FARmer.

It is suggestive of elevated thoughts respecting that lofty state and place which is called heaven, and to the attainment of which our best energies should be directed. - PRESBYTERIAN.

We welcome this contribution to our religious literature, from the open pen of a Christian merchant. Free from pedantry and the conventionalities of logic and of style, it comes to us with a freshness of thought and a fervor of feeling that are often wanting in the scholar's page. The author draws illustrations, som times, from scenes with which the professional teacher is little conversant. -N. Y. INDEPENDENT.

The author is certainly an independent thinker, as well as a vigorous writer, and has written a book that will please the thoughtful, and will astonish pious people, who seldom, and always timidly. think. Freed from the technicalities of theological science, his style is all the more pleasing. In short, everything about the work is fresh and racy. The author's views of the society, joy, and occupations of leaven are somewhat peculiar, but none the less philosophical and acceptable. We admire him intensely, and bid him God speed. -WESTERN LIT. MESSENGER. (w)

THE TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS: or, Geology in its Bearings on the two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. By HUGH MILLER. "Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field." — Job. With numerous elegant illustrations. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

The completion of this important work employed the last hours of the lamented author, and may be considered his greatest and in fact his life work.

MACAULAY ON SCOTLAND.

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Author of "Footprints of the Creator," &c.

Critique. By HUGH MILLER, 16mo, flexible cloth, 25c.

Every one who has read Macaulay's last volumes will remember in what an unfavorable light he has presented the Scottish character. In this critique Hugh Miller enters the lists in defence of his native country. He shows that the distinguished historian has sacrificed truth for the sake of making a brilliant picture, and also gratifying his prejudices. The charm of Hugh Miller's style, rivalling that of Macaulay himself, and his manifest superiority in knowledge of historic facts, will secure for this essay a wide perusal. It certainly presents Macaulay in a new light as a historian. When we read Macaulay's last volumes, we said that they wanted nothing but the fiction to make an epic poem ; and now it seems to be proved that they are not wanting even in that. His abuse of the Scotch Presbyterians is shown up according to his deserts, in the little work before us. The truth is, that, through his religious prejudices, Macaulay is incapable of understanding either the Presbyterians or the Puritans, or any other who have a spiritual religion. - PURITAN RECORDER.

This is a searching Critique upon the most distinguished living historian of Great Britain. The name of Hugh Miller will create a demand for it among those who are acquainted with his writings. - PHILA. CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.

The historian is handled with amasterly hand in its pages. - DOLLAR NEWSPAPER.

It is very sad to know that such an intellect as beams through these brilliant pages has been quenched for this world - in the waters of death. This critique is sparkling and severe, but just. - CONGREGATIONALIST.

He meets the historian at the fountain head, tracks him through the old pamphlets and newspapers on which he relied, and demonstrates that his own authorities are against him. In the course of the discussion, some new facts in Macaulay's personal history are disclosed, tending to set his assault on the Highlanders in a very unamiable light. The weight of his character and the well known attractions of his style will secure for this tract a wide and attentive perusal. - BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.

ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM.

By PETER BAYNE,

M. A., Author of "The Christian Life, Social and Individual." Arranged in TWO SERIES, OR PARTS. 12mo, cloth, cach, $1.25.

This work is prepared by the author exclusively for his American publishers. It includes eighteen articles, viz:

FIRST SERIES: Thomas De Quincy. - Tennyson and his Teachers. Mrs. Barrett Browning. - Recent Aspects of British Art. - John Ruskin. - IIugh Miller. The Modern Novel; Dickens, &c. - Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell. - Charles Kingsley.

SECOND SERIES: S. T. Coleridge. – T. B. Macaulay. - Alison. - Wellington. - Napoleon. Plato. Characteristics of Christian Civilization. — Education in the Nineteenth Century. - The Pulpit and the Press.

LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Abridged

from the recent London, seven volume edition. By MRS. H. C. KNIGHT, Author of Lady Huntington and her Friends," &c. With a fine likeness and an elegant illustrated title page on steel. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

This is an original biography prepared from the abundant, but ill-digested materials contained in the seven octavo volumes of the London edition. The great bulk of that work, together with the heavy style of its literary execution, must necessarily prevent its republication in this country. At the same time, the Christian public in America will expect some memoir of a poet whose hymns and sacred melodies have been the delight of every household. This work, it is confidently hoped, will fully satisfy the public desire. It is prepared by one who has already won distinguished laurels in this department of literature.

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THE CHURCH MEMBER'S MANUAL

Of Ecclesiastical Principles, Doctrines, and Discipline. By the REV. WIL LIAM CROWELL. Introduction by H. J. RIPLEY, D. D. Second edition, revised and improved. 12mo, cloth, 75 cts.

We have looked through this book with no little interest. It is written with perspicuity, candor, and ability. It contains much to which all denominations, and especially Orthodox Congregationalists, would heartily subscribe.- Puritan Recorder.

We welcome this Manual with unusual satisfaction. In a brief compass we have a development of Baptist principles as to church organization, and church order, with a comprehensive view of the doctrines of the gospel as held by Baptists, and an exhibit of various usages which obtain, more or less, in the denomination. We regard the work as one of great practical value, and desire for it a wide circulation in our churches.-N. Y. Recorder.

We would be happy to see a copy of this work in every Baptist family in our state. - Zion's Adv. As a Manual of ecclesiastical principles, doctrine, and discipline, presenting a systematic view of the structure, policy, doctrines, and practices of Christian churches, as taught in the Scriptures, as a book for old and young, it will be found very interesting and instructive, and as a book of reference, one of great value. We wish all our young brethren would study it. - Bap. Register.

This has now, by common consent, obtained a place among our permanent literature as a denomination. It is a book that should find a wide circulation in the west. - Ch. Messenger.

The first edition was well received. The author has been over every chapter and line, and presented us with a new and thoroughly revised edition. It should be introduced into all the families, and among all the members of our churches. Its influence, in explaining and enforcing our polity, as a denomination, would be most instructive and salutary. Phil. Ch. Chronicle.

The main positions are defended with a vigor and clearness of argument that reflect great credit upon the bearing and tact of the author. There is an air of practical good sense, and a candor and good feeling towards other denominations, which give the book additional value, and will, undoubtedly, enhance its usefulness. - Biblical Repository.

Hardly any question can be raised with regard to the nature, powers, rights, and duties of a church, to the appointment, character, ordination, and authority of its officers, to the articles of its belief and the nature and proofs of its positive institutions, to its government, discipline, and usages, which is not here met by a distinct, intelligent, and satisfactory answer. -Southern Baptist.

It bears the marks of attention, study, and great care in the arrangement and discussion of the numerous topics embraced in it, and contains much that will interest evangelical readers of every church. Phil. Ch. Observer.

THE CHURCH MEMBER'S HAND-BOOK; a Plain Guide to the Doctrines and Practice of Baptist Churches. By REV. WILLIAM CROWELL. Fifth thousand. 18mo, cloth, 38 cts.

CONTENTS. The Ground Work of Religion; Christian Truth: Frame Work of Religion; Christian Churches: Memorials of Religion; Christian Ordinances: Symbols of Religion; Christian Sacraments: Privileges of Religion; Church Discipline: Life of Religion; Christian Love, etc.

We have never met with a book of this size that contained so full and complete a synopsis of the doctrines and practice of the Baptist, or any other church, as this. Just such a book as is needed by every young church member. Ch. Secretary.

It is concise, clear, and comprehensive; and, as an exposition of ecclesiastical principles and practice, is worthy of study by all young members of our churches. We hope it may be widely circulated, and that the youthful thousands of our Israel may become familiar with its pages. Watchman and Reflector.

This is just the book wanted in all parts of our country. It contains a condensed but complete epitome of all those things which come up in practice, and on which churches and ministers are frequently called to act.- Western Watchman.

A brief, plain guide to young church members. We wish every one of this class might have the "Hand Book." Ignorance of the doctrine of the Bible and the laws of Christ's house is the disgrace of too many, both of the young and old, and through it blight and dishonor often come upon the visible church of God. Mich. Ch. Herald.

This is decidedly the best treatise that has ever come under our notice. - Indian Advocate. Its doctrinal views would tend to stability, as its practical suggestions would to spiritual life. Its hints and rules on rights, duties, discipline, business, and order, if duly observed, would contribute greatly to the peace, purity, and efficiency of our churches.-N. Y. Recorder.

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MODERN ATHEISM, under its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws. By JAMES BUCHANAN, D.D, LL.D. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

The Author of this work is the successor of Dr. Chalmers in the Chair of Divinity in the New College, Edinburgh, and the intellectual leader of the Scottish Free Church.

FROM HUGH MILLER, AUTHOR OF "OLD RED SANDSTONE," &c., &c. The work before us is one of at once the most readable and solid which we have ever perused.

FROM THE "NEWS OF THE CHURCHES." It is a work of which nothing less can be said, than that, both in spirit and substance, style and argument, it fixes irreversibly the name of the author as a leading classic in the Christian literature of Britain.

FROM HOWARD MALCOM, D. D., PRESIDENT OF LEWISBURG UNIVERSITY. -No work has come into my hands, for a long time, so helpful to me as a teacher of metaphysics and morals. I know of nothing which will answer for a substitute. The public specially needs such a book at this time, when the covert atheism of Fichte, Wolfe, Hegel, Kant, Schelling, D'Holbach, Comte, Crousse, Atkinson, Martineau, Leroux, Mackay, Holyoake, and others, is being spread abroad with all earnestness, supported, at least in some places, both by church influence and university honors. I cannot but hope that a work so timely, scholarly, and complete, will do much good.

It is one of the most solid and remarkable books in its department of literature; one of the most scholarly and profound productions of modern Christian literature.- WORCESTER TRANSCRIPT. Dr. Buchanan has earned a high and well-deserved reputation as a classical writer and close logical reasoner. He deals heavy, deadly blows on atheism in all its various forms; and wherever the work is read it cannot fail to do good. - CHRISTIAN SECRETARY.

It is a work which places its author at once in the highest rank of modern religious authors. His analyses of the doctrines held by the various schools of modern atheism are admirable, and his criticism original and profound; while his arguments in defence of the Christian faith are powerful and convincing. It is an attractive as well as a solid book; and he who peruses a few of its pages is, as it were, irresistibly drawn on to a thorough reading of the book. BOSTON PORTFOLIO.

The style is very felicitous, and the reasoning clear and cogent. The opposing theories are fairly stated and combated with remarkable ease and skill. Even when the argument falls within the range of science, it is so happily stated that no intelligent reader can fail to understand it. Such a profound, dispassionate work is particularly called for at the present time. - BOSTON JOURNAL. It is justly described as “a great argument," "magnificent in its strength, order, and beauty," in defence of truth, and against the variant theories of atheism. It reviews the doctrines of the different schools of modern Atheism, gives a fair statement of their theories, answers and refutes them, never evading, but meeting and crushing their arguments. - PHILA. CHRISTIAN OBSErver. Dr. Buchanan is candid and impartial, too, as so strong a man can afford to be, evades no argument, undertakes no opposing view, but meets his antagonists with the quiet and unswerving confidence of a locomotive on iron tracks, pretty sure to crush them.- CHRISTIAN REGISTER.

We hail this production of a master mind as a lucid, vigorous, discriminating, and satisfactory refutation of the various false philosophies which have appeared in modern times to allure ingenuous youth to their destruction. Dr. Buchanan has studied them thoroughly, weighed them dispassionately, and exposed their falsity and emptiness. His refutation is a clear stream of light from beginning to end. - PHILA. PRESBYTERIAN.

We recommend "Modern Atheism" as a book for the times, and as having special claims on theological students. - UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY.

It is remarkable for the clearness with which it apprehends and the fairness with which it states, not less than for the ability with which it replies to, the schemes of unbelief in its various modern forms. It will be found easy to read-though not light reading - and very quickening to thought, while it clears away, one by one, the mists which the Devil has conjured around the great doctrines of our Faith, by the help of some of his ingenious modern coadjutors, and leaves the truth of God standing in its serene and pristine majesty, as if the breath of hatred never had been breathed forth against it. CONGREGATIONALIST.

Dr. Buchanan has here gone into the enemy's camp, and defeated him on his own ground. The work is a masterly defence of faith against dogmatic unbelief on the one hand, and that universal skepticism on the other, which neither affirms nor denies, on the ground of an assumed deficiency of evidence as to the reality of God and religion. - N. Y. CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE.

It is a clearly and vigorously written book. It is particularly valuable for its clear statement and masterly refutation of the Pantheism of Spinoza and his School.-CHRISTIAN Herald.

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THE

PROGRESS OF BAPTIST PRINCIPLES

IN THE

LAST HUNDRED YEARS.

BY THOMAS F. CURTIS,

PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LEWISBURG, PA. 12mo. Cloth. $1.25.

GENERAL CONTENTS.

Part One. PROGRESS OF PRINCIPLES NOW CONCEDED IN THEORY BY THE MOST ENLIGHTENED OF OTHER DENOMINATIONS.

CHAPTER 1. Opening remarks. 2. Freedom of Conscience, and Separation of Church and State. 3. A converted church membership. 4. Sacraments inoperative without choice and faith. 5. Be lievers the only Scriptural subjects of Baptism of the New Testament. 6. Immersion always the Baptism of the New Testament.

Part Two. PROGRESS OF PRINCIPLES STILL CONTROVERTED.

CHAPTER 1. The command to Baptize, a command to Immerse. 2. The importance of Believers. Baptism. 3. Infant Baptism injurious—its modern defences considered. 4. Open Communion unwise and injurious.

Part Three. PROGRESS OF PRINCIPLES ALWAYS HELD BY EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS, BUT MORE CONSISTENTLY BY BAPTISTS.

CHAPTER 1. The Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures. 2. Salvation by grace alone. 3. The essential priesthood of all Christians. 4. Connection of Baptist Principles and Political Liberty. 5. Summary of the foregoing work.

In the course of the work the author reviews the opinions of many distinguished men, as Roger Williams, Wesley, Nevin, Coleridge, Neander, Bunsen, Augustine, Origen, Cyprian, Authon, Pond, Stuart, Bushnell, Robert Hall, &c.

The work has already rapidly passed through several editions, and has received the emphatic approval of many of the most distinguished clergymen and scholars in the country. Among the numerous testimonials to its value which have been received are the following

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

Henry J. Ripley, D. D., Prof. Newton Theol. Inst.

The work bears ample testimony to its author's extensive reading and accurate reflection: it cannot fail to awaken in a reader much serious and profitable consideration, and will abundantly repay the time and attention which it occupies. Even should a reader hesitate to adopt the author's views, he cannot but admire his spirit. It is gratifying to see so much evidence of growing agreement among Christians, and to meet with a book so well illustrating the candor and the independence which should mark, as well as guide, the progress of Christian principles.

J. Newton Brown, D. D., Philadelphia.

It is one of those first-rate books, which it is of great importance to keep constantly before the public. Its principles are sound. Its facts will repay perusal. Its spirit is lovely; its style lucid and attractive; its images full of the purest light and beauty. Some of its argumentative illustrations appear to me to possess original and irresistible force. Indeed I have seldom read a book with more pleasure. It is full of the seeds of things.

George C. Baldwin, D. D., Troy, N. Y.

I religiously feel two desires. One is, that it may find its way into every Baptist family on the continent; for it will greatly strengthen their faith and confirm their hope. The other is, that all candid inquirers after truth, in the directions it discusses, will give it a fair consideration; for it will assuredly, by the kindness of its tone, the reliableness of its facts, the scope of its arguments, and its manly ability, aid them in finding "the right way of the Lord."

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