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NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI. VOL. XXIII.-NUMBER III. JULY, 1864. The New Englander will be published in the months of January, April, July, and October. NEW HAVEN : WM. L. KINGSLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 68 GROVE ST. AGENTS. NEW BAVEN.-F. T. JARMAN, 3 Exchange Build- | HARTFORD.-L. E. HUNT. ing, Church st.; T. H. PRASE, 328 Chapel st.; NEW YORK.-N. A. CALKING, Office of the Ameri- BOSTON.-CROSBY AND NICHOLS, 117 Washing FARMINGTON.-S. S. COWLES. LONDON.-TRUBNER & Co. Postage according to the New Law. This number weighs 9 ounces. The postage, when paid by the publisher in New Haven, is 3 cents; when paid by a subscriber at the office of delivery, it is the same. New Haven Post Master. T. J. STAFFORD, printer. The reader is referred to pages 8 and 9 of the Advertising Sheet, for information respecting Postage-Exchanges--Price of Index-Complete and Incomplete Sets-Back Numbers. ART. I. The Conflict with Skepticism and Unbelief. Rev. Prof. George P. Fisher, Yale College. II. Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables," Mrs. C. R. Corson, Philadelphia, Penn. Rev. J. G. Hale, East Poultney, Vt. 401 454 482 IV. Review of Bayard Taylor's "Hannah Thurston.” 496 V. The Key of the Continent, 517 NEW THE ENGLANDER. No. LXXXVIII. JULY, 1864. ARTICLE I.—THE CONFLICT WITH SKEPTICISM AND UNBELIEF. THIRD ARTICLE:-BAUR'S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE APOSTOLIC HISTORY, AND ATTACK UPON THE CREDIBILITY OF THE BOOK OF ACTS.* Das Christenthum u. die Christliche Kirche der drei ersten Yahrhunderte, von Dr. Ferdinand Christian Baur. Tübingen, 1853. (Author's last Ed., 1860.) Die Composition u. Entstehung der Apostelgeschichte, von Eduard Lekebusch. Gotha, 1854. THE great question which the Church in the Apostolic age was required to consider and determine, was the relation of Christianity to the ritual law of the Old Testament. Was that law still binding? Or rather-for in this form, as was *It is hardly necessary to remind the reader that the views examined in this Article have become current through the Westminster Review, and various other publications, and are likely to be still further promulgated. In order to meet the prevailing unbelief, it is necessary to confront it where it assumes a consistent and tangible form. |