CONTENTS VOLUME XXVII.—1875. JANUARY. PAGE 56 67 89 III.-UTILITY OF THE CHURCH CONGRESS-By the Rev. Julius H. IV. PRESENCE IN THE EUCHARIST-By the Rev. John Fulton, D.D., V.-FAITH-WORSHIP OR WILL-WORSHIP-By the Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. - VI. THE NEW CANON ON RITUAL-By the Rev. John Henry Hopkins, VII-MODERN DOUBT AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF-A Review of Prof. Christlieb's Lectures-By the Rev. John M. Leavitt, D. D.. New York. VIII-CHRISTIAN TRUTH AND MODERN OPINION-A Review of Seven Sermons preached by Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church- By the Rev. Julius H. Ward, Thomaston, Maine. IX.-BOOK NOTICES-Leathes' Bampton Lecture for 1874.-Recollec- - 105 138 144 II. THE APOCALYPSE OF THE PAST-By Rev. E. S. Wilson, Corning, III.-STUDIES IN DARWIN-By Rev. J. F. Garrison, M.D., Camden N. J. 197 IV.—THE ILLINOIS CASE—By Rev. S. C. Thrall, D.D., Cumberland Md. 219 VI. THE SCHISM OF 1873-By Rev. E. B. Boggs, D.D., Newark, N. J. 255 VII-THE POPE AND THE BIBLE-By Rev. J. M. Leavitt, D:D., N. Y. 279 VIII-BISHOPS ELECT-By Rev. E. B. Boggs, D.D., Newark, N. J. IX. ANTHONY BRADE.-THE EVANGEL.-CHRIST AND OTHER MASTERS-SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.-SOCIAL LIFE IN GREECE.-DISCOUR- SES; THE PARACLETE.-LATIN HYMNS.-THE CHURCH IDENTIFIED.— PARNASSUS.-MANUAL OF FAMILY DEVOTION. DENTON ON THE ACTS.— WILLIAMS ON THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS.-ABOUT MEN AND THINGS. — I.-CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THEOLOGY-By Rev. E. A. Washburn, II.-REGENERATION IN ITS MANIFOLD ASPECTS-By Rev. James III.-PRAYER AND LAW-By Rev. William E. McLaren, Cleveland, Ohio. 354 V. SAVONAROLA.-By Rev. W. Wilberforce Newton, Newark, N. J. VI-SOCIETY OF JESUS-By Edmund De Pressensé, Paris, France. VII. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, 666-By Rev. E. S. Wilson, Corn- X.-A CHRISTIAN ARTIST-PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAWS-PREACHING WITHOUT OCTOBER. IX. THE BONN CONFERENCE.-MAHAN'S WORKS-JACKSON'S DISCOURSES- TERMS:-(in advance), $3.00 a year, Missionaries, $2.00. Any Clergyman sending three new subscriptions and nine dollars ($9.00), will be entitled to receive the REVIEW free for this or the next year. THE QUARTERLY-Editorial. The question has been asked of late, is there any need of a QUARTERLY REVIEW in the Church? Does not the Weekly Journal supply all that is wanted in the way of periodicals, and is not a Review issued at intervals of three months, too slow and too far behind the times? We propose to answer these questions, by showing that each--the Weekly and the Quarterly-has its appropriate sphere and work to do, that both are useful, both needed, and in no way interfere with each other. I. The Weekly Church Paper ought to supply the current news of the Church at home and abroad, and furnish articles on the topics and controversies of the day-articles brief, brilliant, and easily read, therefore not deep in character so as to require much study or repeated reading. There are hundreds of topics constantly arising, of interest at the time, but yet more or less ephemeral in their nature or duration, about which churchmen need information, or which they are anxious to have discussed. There are thousands of items of Church news, parochial, diocesan, or general, which all desire to know, or which have special interest in some sections of the Church, but a great many of which are not of permanent historic value nor worth preserving. All these, and such like, it is the province of the Weekly Journal to supply, but long and learned dissertations are in it out of place. They are seldom read. There is not time to read them. When the paper comes it is eagerly opened, is hurriedly glanced over, the news items and shorter articles read, anything of special interest at the time, whether of controversy or a personal nature, noted, and either perused at once or soon after; and then the longer and abstruse articles are passed over with a mental resolve "that seems to be an important article, but I cannot read it now, cannot take time, I will put away the paper and study it when I have more leisure." But before the vacant moment is found, another weekly comes with its vast amount of new reading matter, and thus they accumulate so fast, that at last, lumbering up the study table, the careful housewife either thrusts them aside in a closet, or consigns them to the waste basket; and so they are never really read. It has often grieved us to see such valuable articles printed in our Church papers, because we have felt they are there almost entirely thrown away, that it is nearly impossible they should there receive merited attention. Besides, from its very form the Church Paper is not convenient. for preservation, and in fact even if filed (which is seldom done), is rarely bound or preserved in such a way as to be useful for future reference. II. But the QUARTERLY REVIEW takes up the work just where the Weekly leaves it. It is intended for more elaborate and lengthy articles, and on subjects of permanent interest. Articles which will be always valuable, either in themselves or because of the position of the writers, or as treating of matters of historic importance. Besides giving such articles the QUARTERLY ought to select from the weekly press, for permanent record, such items of news as prove to be well authenticated and are of permanent interest. It should also preserve for future reference, as far as it has room, all Church documents of historic value. And being in book form it is easily and is generally preserved, even if it be not bound, so that reference to it is convenient. To show that others have felt all this, we take the liberty of quoting a few words from a letter received from one of the most respected Presbyters of the Church. He refers to a valuable article which had been written by an Editor and inserted in his own paper. It would be a shame to our Church to have no periodical above the rank of a Weekly. There are constantly recurring questions which cannot be sufficiently treated in a newspaper. * * ** And more elaborate articles such as the recent * might with great advantage to the Church, appear first in the REVIEW, where they would be preserved, and from which they might be copied into the Weekly Paper. one on * ** There are two theories on either of which a Church Review, so far as the character of its articles is concerned, may be conducted. |