THE

METHODIST

VIEW.

(BIMONTHLY.)

VOLUME LXXIV.-FIFTH SERIES, VOLUME VIII.

J. W. MENDENHALL, D.D., LL.D., EDITOR.

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THE VIRGIN-BIRTH-ITS EXPECTATION AND PUBLICATION.........

Professor WILBUR FLETCHER STEELE, Ph.D., Berlin, Germany.

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GENESIS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. [SECOND PART.].

Professor L. T. TOWNSEND, S. T.D., Boston University, Boston, Mass.

THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.....

J. C. HARTZELL, D.D., Corresponding Secretary of Freedmen's Aid and

Southern Education Society, Cincinnati, O.

THE PROVINCE OF PHILOSOPHY

WILLIAM RILEY HALSTEAD, D.D., Bloomington, Ind.

THE PORTICO TO OUR BOOK OF DISCIPLINE

WILLIAM F. WARREN, S.T.D., President Boston University, Boston, Mass.
PERSONALITY IN AUTHORSHIP

.....

Professor W. A. HEIDEL, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill.

WESLEY AS A SCIENTIST

W. C. CAHALL, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa.

THEISM-A BRIEF STUDY

J. M. WILLIAMS, D.D., Fall River, Mass.

CHRISTIAN AMERICA CHRISTIANIZING CHRISTIAN NATIONS...... 98

Editor.

EDITORIAL NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS:

OPINION

CURRENT DISCUSSIONS.

100

105

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The Life Tenure of the Methodist Episcopacy, 105; Methodism: Centripetal

or Centrifugal? 118; The Church, 120.

PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION..

127

THE ARENA.

131

The Benefit of the Doubt, 131, A Century of New York Methodism, 133;

Can the Deity Suffer? 135; Dr. Bristol and St. Mark, 135.

136

THE ITINERANTS' CLUB.....

The Preacher and Sermon-Building, 136; The Selection of Books to Read,

137; The Art of Constructing Materials into a Sermon-The Logic of Sermon-

Building, 140; The Young Preacher and the Field of Knowledge, 140.

FOREIGN RÉSUMÉ.........

Some Leaders of Thought, 141; Recent Theological Literature, 143; Relig-

ious, 147.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS:

SPIRIT OF THE REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES.

BOOKS: CRITIQUES AND NOTICES...

Books as Lamps, 157; Wise's Pronaos to Holy Writ, 157; Upham's Saint

Matthew's Witness to Words and Works of the Lord, 159; Sohm's History

of Christianity, 160; Dod's Gospel of St. John, 161; Historical Evidences

of the Old and New Testaments (two volumes), 162; Genung's Epic of the

Inner Life, 163; King's Kóhaois Ailvios, 164; Cooke's Christianity and

Childhood, 164; Wright's Introduction to the Old Testament, 165; Cox's

Book of Ecclesiastes, 165; Johnson's What is Reality? 166; De La Saus-

saye's Manual of the Science of Religion, 167; Chandler's Spirit of Man,

168; Hurst's Indika, 169; Von Moltke's Franco-German War of 1870-71,

171; Winsor's Christopher Columbus, 172; Reed's Hindu Literature, 178;

Darkness and Daylight, 173; MISCELLANEOUS, 174.

141.

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WHAT IS THE RESURRECTION?.....

177

L. R. FISKE, D.D., LL.D., President of Albion College, Albion, Mich.

THE COMPULSORY LOCATION OF INEFFICIENT TRAVELING

PREACHERS..

195

J. M. BUCKLEY, D.D., LL.D., Editor Christian Advocate, New York, N. Y.

DIVORCE: A SYMPOSIUM..

212

C. W. SMITH, D.D., Editor Pittsburg Christian Advocate, Pittsburg, Pa.;

Hon. H. L. SIBLEY, Marietta, O.; H. W. ROGERS, LL.D., President North-

western University, Evanston, Ill.

THE CHURCH IN THE SOUTH..

229

A. E. P. ALBERT, D.D., Editor South-western Christian Advocate, New Or-

leans, La.

.......

Diocesan Episcopacy Sui Generis, 272; Revolution in Theology, 281; The

Efficiency of Methodism Dependent on its Spirituality, 288.

PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION..

296

THE ARENA

300

Prohibition in Kansas, 300; The Elements of a Strong Church, 301; Some

Exceptions, 302; "Regeneration as a Force in Reform Movements," 303.

THE ITINERANTS' CLUB....

305

The Preacher and Sermon-Building, 305: Bible-Readings, 306; More

Thoughts on the Selection of Books, 308.

FOREIGN RÉSUMÉ.................

310

Some Leaders of Thought, 310; Theological Literature, 312; Religious, 316.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS:

SPIRIT OF THE REVIEWS AND Magazines..

BOOKS: CRITIQUES AND NOTICES....

318

Driver's Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, 326; Bernard's

Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament, 327; Harrison's Problems of

Christianity and Skepticism, 328; Weidner's Biblical Theology of the New

Testament, 329; Stokes's Natural Theology, 830; Rawlinson's Ezra and Nehe-

miah, 330; Walls's Oldest Drama in the World, 331; Dale's Fellowship With

Christ, 332; Wise's Faith, Hope, Love, and Duty, 332; Fradenburgh's De-

parted Gods, 332; Rodgers's Unpublished Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, 333;

Hempstreet's Mind is Matter, 333; Conduct as a Fine Art, 334; Bissell's

Practical Introductory Hebrew Grammar, 334; Johnson's English Words,

335; Edwards's Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers, 335; Humphreys's Antig-

one of Sophocles, 336; Hutton's Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh, 336;

Latest Literary Essays and Addresses of James Russell Lowell, 337; Moore's

Republic to Methodism, Dr., 337; Stephens's Story of Portugal, 338; Louns-

bury's Studies in Chaucer, 339; Twitchell's John Winthrop, and Wendell's

Cotton Mather, 340; Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson, 341;

Schurz's Abraham Lincoln, 341; Tiffany's Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 342;

Child's Spanish-American Republics, 342; Stephenson's Public Lands and

Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic, 343; MISCELLANEOUS, 343.

326

Rev. H. A. BUTTZ, D.D., President Drew Theological Seminary, Madison,

N. J.

OUR SPECIAL LEGISLATION ON AMUSEMENTS: HONEST DOUBT

AS TO ITS WISDOM...............

375

Rev. G. P. MAINS, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

THE CHARACTER OF HAMLET

390

Professor D. DORCHESTER, Jr., Boston, Mass.

ROYAL SEIZURE; OR, THE ETHICS OF PLAGIARISM...........

Rev. J. M. DRIVER, Fort Wayne, Ind.

........ 405

ALFRED GRIFFITH

Rev. J. A. M'CAULEY, D.D., Baltimore, Md.

CONGREGATIONALISM VERSUS OUR EPISCOPACY....................................

Rev. C. A. CRANE, Danville, Ill.

THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD.

J. E. LEARNED, New York, N. Y.

EDITORIAL NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS:

OPINION

CURRENT DISCUSSIONS

Connectionalism, 443; The True Biblical Criticism, 451; A Retrospect of

Four Years, 457; Benjamin St. James Fry, 462.

PROGRESS OF Civilization..

419

429

434

438

448

463

THE ARENA .....

467

Sunday Opening of the World's Fair, 467; Probation, 468; The Trial of Trav-

eling Ministers, 469; Approaches to Union, 471; An Echo from the Method-

ist Episcopal Church, South, 472.

THE ITINERANTS' CLUB...

473

Question Drawer, 473; Reading Books, 473; The Study of Science, 476.

FOREIGN RÉSUMÉ..

478

Some Leaders of Thought, 478; Theological Literature, 480; Religious, 484.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS:

SPIRIT OF THE REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES.

BOOKS: CRITIQUES AND NOTICES..

486

Miley's Systematic Theology, 494; Bacon's Genesis of Genesis, 497; Rey-

nolds's Natural History of Iminortality, 498; Lang's Gideon and the Judges,

499; Murray's Introduction to Ethics, 500; Strong's Our Lord's Life, 501;

Spaulding's Jesus Christ the Proof of Christianity, 501; Hughey's Baptismal

Remission, 502; Haven's Natural Religion, 502; (Sixty) Living Papers Con-

cerning Christian Evidences, Doctrine, and Morals, 503; Stanton's Place of

Authority in Matters of Religious Belief, 504; Sayce's Races of the Old Tes-

tament, 504; Child's Art and Criticism, 505; Newman's Poetry, with Refer-

ence to Aristotle's Poetics, 506; Choate's Wells of English, 506; Ward's Dis-

eases of the Nasal Organs, 508; Fisher's Letters of Field-Marshal von Moltke

to his Mother, 508; Grimke's William Lloyd Garrison, 508; Merrill's Organic

Union of American Methodism, 509; Adams's Story of Jane Austen's Life, 509;

Zimmer's Irish Element in Medieval Culture, 510; Mitchell's Evolution of

Life, 510; Fotsch's Memorabilia of the New World, 511; MISCELLANEOUS, 512.

494