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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXX.

NO. CXV. JANUARY 1881.

I. Agnosticism. By the Rev. ROBERT FLINT, D.D., LL.D.,
Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh,

II. Evolution and the Hebrews: a Review of Herbert Spencer's
"Hebrews and Phoenicians." By the Rev. ALFRED
CAVE, B.A., Hackney College, London,

III. The Eloquence of the Pulpit. Translated by CLEMENT
DE FAYE from the French of the late ADOLPHE MONOD,
IV. Two Modern Apostles. By the Rev. ALEX. MACLEOD
SYMINGTON, B.A., Birkenhead,

V. Christian Philosophy of Patience,

VI. The Observance of the Sabbath. By the Rev. LEONARD
BACON, D.D.,

VII. Evolution in relation to Species. By the Rev. J. H.
M'ILVAINE, D.D.,

VIII. Criteria of the various kinds of Truth. By the Rev. JAMES
M'COSH, D.D., President of Princeton College, N. J.,

By Professor WILLIAM

IX. The Regeneration of Palestine.
WELLS, Union College, Schenectady,

X. The Faith of Islam. By the Rev. EDWARD SELL, Church

Missionary Society, Madras; Fellow of the University of

Madras,

144

165

191

XI. Current Literature,

NO. CXVI.-APRIL 1881.

I. On some outstanding Features of the Gospel History. By the
Rev. PRINCIPAL BROWN, Aberdeen,

213

II. The Divine Names in Genesis. By the Rev. J. URQUHART,

Kirkcaldy,

227

III. Christian Morality, Expediency, and Liberty. By PROFESSOR

LYMAN H. ATWATER, Princeton College, N.J.,

243

IV. The Incarnation. By the Rev. JOHN BAIRD, Rafford,
V. A Basis of Theism. By M. H. TOWRY,
VI. Joyous Spirituality of Christian Pilgrimage; or, Pilgrimage
-not Penance,

VII. Hymnology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Hymns
of the Church. By the Rev. ANDREW CARTER, London,
VIII. The Persistence of Force; a Point in the Argument of
Natural Theology. By F. Gardiner, D.D., Professor
in Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn.,

IX. Postulates of Ethics. By PROFESSOR BORDEN P. BowNE,

Boston University,

265

280

290

305

X. Current Literature,

324

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