least the merit of being unusual. The author, who in his manner of writing is quite free from the common vices of believing or unbelieving controversialists, has no faith either in the resurrection or in any other miracle, and yet is firmly convinced that Jesus, after the crucifixion, was seen alive by the disciples. The only method of reconciling this seeming contradiction, is by the belief that the death of Christ was only apparent. The anonymous critic states clearly and forcibly enough the difficulties which attend the attempt to harmonize the narratives as they stand; but he prudently abstains from considering the greater difficulties which are involved in the reception of his own hypothesis. When rationalistic inquirers ask of believers in the ascension, what became of the body of the risen Christ-the question is not altogether easy to answer; but surely far less difficult than to account for the disappearance from history of a Christ who, with powers of mind and body unimpaired, had escaped from the cross.
We have received the two first volumes of the Memorial Edition of the Collected Works of W. J. Fox.* The first contains "Lectures, Sermons, &c., prior to 1829;" the second, the well-known series of sermons, entitled, "Christ and Christianity." We hope, on a future occasion, to return to these interesting volumes, in an attempt to estimate the whole character and religious influence of their author.
A correspondent requests us to correct a slight misstatement of fact in the note appended to the article on "Woman's Work in the Church" in our September No., p. 521. We give the correction in the words in which we have received it.
"The writer says, 'The funds for such assistance (meat, wine, tea, &c.) are supplied to the ladies (managing the district) by the Society, and are duly accounted for by them at the end of the year.' This is not correct. The wages of the nurses are paid by the Institution; but for their lodgings, and for the entire expense of the relief given to the patients, the Lady Superintendents are responsible. These must be furnished by herself, or friends, or, as in the case of the district managed by members of the HopeStreet Church, by congregational subscription."
* Memorial Edition of Collected Works of W. J. Fox. Vols. I., II. London: Fox: Trübner. 1865.
AIKIN LUCY AIKIN'S LETTERS, 92. Miss Aikin's powers of conversation, 93.
Birth and early training, 93. Literary life and works, 94. Connection with
the English Presbyterians, 95. Letters to Dr. Channing, 97. Extract on
the characteristics of the English Presbyterians, 98. On Priestley and Price,
99. More about Priestley, 100. Conclusion, 102.
Allsop, T., "Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge," 343.
America-Unitarian Convention at New York, 352, 470. Propositions for new
Theological Chairs at Harvard, 473.
BARMBY, Rev. Goodwyn, "Aids to Devotion," 342.
Beard, Dr., "Christ the Interpreter of Scripture," 453.
Beke, Mrs., "Jacob's Flight, or a Pilgrimage to Harran," 297.
Burgon, J. W., "Letters from Rome to Friends in England," 628.
CAMPBELL, Douglas, "New Religious Thoughts," 459.
Candlish, Dr. R. S., Lectures on "The Fatherhood of God," 551.
Carpenter, Rev. R. L., "Farewell Lecture to the Friends of Temperance," 345.
CATACOMBS, RECENT RESEARCHES IN THE ROMAN, 628. Modern "tomb-
breakers," 628. Explorations at Rome by De Rossi under Pius IX., 629.
Description of strata underlying Rome, 630. Adoption by the poorer early
Christians of disused sand-pits for the purpose of burial, 631. Their doctrine
of a bodily resurrection their motive for such adoption, 632. Their inscrip-
tions in the catacombs, 633. Their use of Pagan imagery and language, 634.
Similarity of Christian to Pagan inscriptions proof of the caution with which
the upper classes avowed their faith, 635. Increase of the number of cata-
combs, 636. Description of the catacomb of Calixtus, 637. The catacombs
wholly outside the walls of Rome, 638. Final cessation of burials in them,
639. Discovery of ancient Christian cemetery, 1578, 640. Researches of
Baronius and Bosio, 641. Cardinal Wiseman's "Fabiola, a Tale of the
Catacombs," 642. His descriptions of the catacombs, 643. His claim of
their testimony to the Catholic Church, 644. Anglican High-church claims
to the authority of Christian antiquity, 644. Real testimony of the cata-
combs, 645.
Chenevière, Professor, of Geneva, resigns his chair of theology, 352.
Church-rates, Mr. Newdegate's Bill rejected, 463.
Cobbe, Miss F. P., "Studies, Ethical and Social," 457.
Colani, T., "Jesus Christ, ou les Croyances Messianiques de son Temps," 241.
COLENSO ON THE PENTATEUCH, Part V., 583. Analysis of the volume, 583.
Elohistic and Jehovistic authors, 585. Levitical office in Israel, 585. Cha-
racter of Dr. Colenso's investigations, 586. His bearing under provocation,
587.
Colenso, Dr. J. W. (Bishop of Natal). Case heard before the Judicial Committee
of Privy Council, 126. Question of jurisdiction first to be decided, 127.
Relation of the case to the position of the Crown in regard to the Colonial
Church, 128. Decision of the Privy Council, 346. General effect of the
decision upon colonial bishops, 347. Refusal to pay arrears of Dr. Colenso's
salary, 348. Dr. Gray's application to Government for costs of Dr. Colenso's
trial, 587. Address of Convocation to Dr. Gray, 587. Testimonial to Dr.
Colenso, who sails for Natal, 588.
Conscience clause-controversy between the clergy and the Privy Council, 461.
Court of Final Appeal, agitation to change the constitution of, 122. Associa-
tion formed, 123. Mr. Disraeli's speech at Oxford, 123. Controversy be-
tween Anglicanus and Mr. Keble, 124. Theory of "the common law of the
Church," 124. Growing coolness between High and Low Church, 125.
Subject dropped for the present, 462,
DALE ON THE HEBREWS. "The Jewish Temple and the Christian Church, by
R. W. Dale." Mr. Dale representative of a younger generation of Indepen-
dent ministers, 305. Practical part of his book valuable, 306. Mr. Dale
assumes the Trinitarian doctrine as the basis of his criticism, 307. Exami-
nation of his treatment of passages relating to the person of Christ, 307 et
seq.
His views on Jewish sacrifices and their relation to the sacrifices of
Christ, 313. Criticism of them, 314 et seq. True philosophy of retribution
and forgiveness, 319.
DANIEL, THE BOOK OF, I., 172. Uncritical spirit of Dr. Pusey's lectures, 173.
Is the book written by Daniel or about him? 179. Question historical and
apocalyptic: the former alone to be here treated, 179. Summary of the
historical contents of the book, 180. Date of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of
Judæa, 185. Nebuchadnezzar's insanity, 187. The fall of Babylon: was
Belshazzar son of Nebuchadnezzar? 190. Table of Babylonian kings from
Ptolemy, Berosus and the monuments, 193. Conquest of Babylon by Cyrus,
194. Who was Belshazzar and who Darius? 195. Story of Gobryas, 196.
Discovery of Belsharezar on the monuments, 197. Difficulties as to Darius
and Cyrus, 197. Were there two conquests of Babylon? M. Niebuhr's
theory, 199. Darius the Mede a fabulous personage, 201. Late origin of
the book of Daniel, 201.
DANIEL, THE BOOK OF, II., 477. Considered from the apocalyptic point of view,
478. Nebuchadnezzar's dream, 479. Daniel's dream identical, 481. Inter-
pretation to be based upon the fourth kingdom, 481. Second vision of Daniel,
482. Prophecy in the 11th chapter, 485. Antiochus Epiphanes a central
figure, 490. Return to Nebuchadnezzar's dream, 491. To Daniel's in chap.
vii., 492. Myth of the world's four ages, 494. Historical inconsistencies
of the book, 497. Who was Daniel? 500. A patriarch of the class of Noah
and Job, 501. Literary character of the book, 502. Quality of Mr. Fuller's
work, 503.
Darwin, Charles, "On the Origin of Species," 150.
Davidson, Dr., Translation of Fuerst's "Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the
Old Testament," 460.
DENMARK, RELIGION IN. Society of theological students in Bonn and its tra-
velling scholarships, 322. Mr. Lüttke's orthodox point of view, 323. The
Reformation in Denmark, 324. Less a theological than a social movement,
327. Barrenness of subsequent history, 327. Refusal of an asylum to
Polish Socinians, 328. Danish missions in Tranquebar, 328. Professor
Clausen's work, 329. Grundtvig, 329. His reply to Clausen, 330. Secedes
from the National Church, 331. Succeeds in liberating the Danish Church
and re-enters it, 332. Subsequent reforms, 333.
Dissenters: Mr. Hadfield's Bill for their relief rejected, 464. Mr. Göschen's
Bill for relieving them from disabilities at Oxford, 464. The various types
Doherty, Hugh, M. D., "Philosophy of Religion," 703.
DONALDSON ON EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND DOCTRINE, 543. Qualities
of Mr. Donaldson's work, 544. His impartality, 545. His treatment of
the Tübingen school, 546. Epistle of Clement, 547. Of Polycarp, 548. Of
Barnabas, 548. The Shepherd, 549. Papias, 550.
Drummond, Rev. R. B., "President Lincoln and the American War," 460.
ECCLESIASTICAL CHRONICLE, 120, 346.
ENGLAND, CHURCH OF ITS INFLUENCE ON SOCIETY. Changes taking place in
the spirit of the Church, 277. How far does it represent the religious life
of the country? High and Low Church answers to this question, 278.
Different positions of the Church in the north and south of England, 279.
Influence of the Church traced back to the Universities, 280. Tractarian
and Evangelical schools at Oxford and Cambridge, 281. Tractarianism at
Oxford after Mr. Newman's secession, 282. Influence of four younger
Oxford tutors: Stanley, Congreve, Jowett, Powles, 285-Maurice, Kings-
ley, Wilson, 286. Newer High-church party, 288. Conservatism of the
laity, 289. Effect upon the minds of the clergy, 289. Clergymen and
women, 290. Clergymen and bishops, 290. Changes in clerical life, 291.
The clergy and the poor, 292. Possibility of a larger comprehensiveness in
the Church, 294.
ENGLAND, CHURCH OF ITS INFLUENCE ON THEOLOGY, 522. Paper restricted
to the influence of the clergy, 522. Two books representing the Church's
mind 1, the Authorized Version of the Bible, 523. Beauties of the trans-
lation, 524. Comment insinuated in the headings of the chapters, 525. 2,
the Prayer Book, 527. Church of England Trinitarian, 528. The Incar-
nation, 529. The Resurrection, 530. Both accepted explicitly and impli-
citly, 531. The Sacraments, 531. Low-church party, 532. High-church
party, 537. Liberal party, 538. Future of the Church, 541.
Essays and Reviews, controversy arising out of, 120. Debate in the House of
Lords as to the synodical condemnation of the book by Convocation, 121.
Declaration of the students of the Natural Sciences, 121. Address of thanks
to the Archbishops for their Pastorals, 121. Dean of Westminster and
others' protest in Convocation against the synodical condemnation, 351.
"Eternal Punishment," by a B.D., 344.
"FABIOLA, a Tale of the Roman Catacombs," 628. Attributed to Cardinal
Wiseman, 642.
FATHERHOOD OF GOD, THE, 551. Character of Dr. Candlish, 521. Theory
of the Lectures, 552. Fatherhood of God inconsistent with his character as
Creator, 553. This theory brought to the test of facts, 554. Dr. Candlish's
conception of God based upon his knowledge of men, 558. The Fatherhood
of God constituted by the Sonship of Christ, 560. Assumption of the
Eternal Sonship, 561. This argument a series of fictions, 563. Scriptural
evidence of God's limited Fatherhood, 566. Interpretation of the parable of
the Prodigal, 567. Alleged distinction in Christ's teaching of his disciples
and the multitude, 569. True spirit of the New Testament, 573.
Fitzgerald, Dr. William (Bishop of Killaloe), article on Miracles in "Smith's
Dictionary of the Bible," 45.
Fox, W. J., "Memorial Edition of the Collected Works of," 704.
FRANCE, PROTESTANTISM IN, 1559-1598, 1. Element of worldliness introduced
into the French Reformation, 2. Conspiracy of Amboise, 2. Persecutions,
3. L'Hopital advocates toleration, 3. Edict of toleration, 4. Contrast
between the French and the Scotch and Swiss Reformations, 5. The St.
Bartholomew of 1562, 7. Coligny heads the Protestants, 8. The St.
Bartholomew of 1572, 9. Republican principles shew themselves, 10.
Accession of Henry IV., 12. Edict of Nantes, 13. Clerical influence
within the Church, 14. Morely and his democratic opinions, 14. Similar
opinions maintained by Ramus, 17. Censorship of books, 18. Royal grant
for the support of Protestant churches, a first step towards the union of
Church and State, 20.
FRANCE, PROTESTANTISM IN, 1598-1789. Revival of persecution, 129. Vio-
lation of the Edict of Nantes under Louis XIII., 129. Defection of the
nobility and appeal to arms, 130. Fall of Rochelle, 131. Policy of Richelieu,
131. Persecution under Louis XIV., 133. The Dragonnades, 136. Revo-
cation of the Edict of Nantes, 138. Emigration, 138. Fresh devices of
persecution, 140. The Churches of the Desert, 141. War in the Cevennes,
142. Protestant Synods revived, 143. The Regency, 144. Persecution
under Louis XV., 144. Outbreak in the Cevennes, 145. Protestantism
and the philosophers, 146. Executions of Rochette, Calas, Sirven, Labarre,
147. The Conciliateur of Turgot, 148. Reign of Louis XVI., 149. The
Revolution, 150.
FRANCE, PROTESTANTISM IN, 1789-1864.
liberty of worship, 353. Concordat of the year X., 354. Protestant churches
gather strength, 356. Return of the Bourbons and of persecution, 357.
Renewed life, 358. Protestantism and the Charter of 1830, 359. Decree
of March 1852, 360. Churches of the Confession of Augsburg, 361. Pro-
testantism and the Second Empire, 362. Present condition, 363. Religious
revival from England, 365. Samuel Vincent, 367. Albert Stapfer, 369.
Daniel Encontre, 370. Alexandre Vinet, 371. Ed. Scherer, 373. Revue
Freckelton, Rev. T. W., "The Church and the Drama,” 345.
"French Protestant Church." M. Colani elected professor at Strasburg,
M. J. Monod at Montauban, 237. M. Réville prevented from preaching at
Paris and Geneva, 238. M. Ath. Coquerel fils, an unsuccessful candidate
for the office of Pastor at Paris: M. Ath. Coquerel père, request for an
assistant again refused, 238. Election of new Presbyteral Council and
Conistory at Paris, 239. Alleged informality in forming the register, 239.
Result of the election, 240. Second election for one vacant seat, 352.
Further proceedings, 474.
Fuerst, Dr., "Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament," translated
by Dr. Davidson, 460.
Fuller, Rev. J. M., "An Essay on the Authenticity of the Book of Daniel," 477.
GERMANY, ecclesiastical affairs of (Eccl. Chron.), 218. Three great German
churches, 219. Romanist tendencies of Lutheranism, 220. Controversy
with the Swiss Reformers, 221. Continued dissensions in the German
churches, 222. King Frederic William III. of Prussia attempts to unite the
Lutheran and Reformed Churches, 223. The Evangelical Union, 224.
Imposition of the Union Liturgy, 225. Doctrinal symbols of the Evangelical
Church, 226. Church government in Prussia, 228-in Baden, 229. Effects
of the admission of the laity to a participation in church government, 230.
Dr. Schenkel, of Heidelberg, 231. His Life of Jesus, 232. Resolution of
the clerical meeting at Carlsruhe, 233. Final decision of the Ober Kirchen-
rath, 233. Church diet of Germany, its meeting at Altenburg and discussion
upon recent works on the Life of Jesus," 235.
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