THE MONTHLY 166 RELIGIOUS MAGAZINE. VOLUME XXV. EDITED BY REV. E. H. SEARS AND REV. RUFUS ELLIS. BOSTON: LEONARD C. BOWLES. 1861. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press, Cambridge: INDEX TO VOL. XXV. The Difference between Divine and The Gospel a Word to the Strong, 156. The National Defence, and the Home The Hofrath of Graefrath, 226. The Preacher and the World, 1. The Puritan and the Cavalier, 371. The Civil War, 376. A Chapter on Fools, 125. The Alarm, 429. The Article, 66 God," 278. Christ, the Son of A Child's Interpretation of Scrip- The Church Monthly, 210. ture, 282. An Orthodox Creed, 135. A Peep at the Newsboys in their A Spectacle on Concord River, 283. Christ's Capture in the Garden. "The Destruction of the Poor is their The Mob Spirit, 427. The New Census and the Prospect, 351. The Times, 127. The Twenty-Second of February, 208. - A Troublesome Children, 355. Cream from the Boston Review, or Why not buy them? A National In the interesting story of St. Paul's voyage and shipwreck, which has been recorded by St. Luke in the book of the Acts, we find that the Apostle endeavored to dissuade the soldier in charge from setting forth, but without success: "The centurion believed the owner and master. of the ship more than those things which were spoken by Paul." As the event proved, it would have been better if the soldier had listened to the Apostle; and yet it could hardly have been expected that he would; and, had the event been otherwise, his superiors might well have complained, that, instead of being guided by the advice of merchants and mariners, he had allowed himself to be influenced by a landsman and a scholar. Paul the Apostle, the man of visions and revelations, or even the wise, because unselfish, honest, and calm adviser, was nothing to the centurion. He had possibly no knowledge, certainly no faith, either in the signs and wonders of Christianity, or in Christianity itself, and Paul's judgment was for him like the opinion of any inexperienced person. The Apostle seems not to have pressed his view upon grounds |