VOLUME XLVII.-FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME XVII. D. D. WHEDON, D.D., EDITOR. New York: 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1865. CONTENTS OF VOL. XLVII.—186 5. JANUARY NUMBER. PAGE APRIL NUMBER. CHRISTIANITY AND THE WAR POWER...... Rev. JOSEPH HORNER, A.M., New Lisbon, Ohio. GERHAN MATERIALISM-THE NATURALISTIC SCHOOL........... CREATION A SERIES OF SUPERNATURAL GROWTHS. Prof. TAYLER Lewis, Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. THE APOCALYPSE AND ITS EXPOSITION. [FIRST ARTIOLE.].......... 230 Rev. GILBERT HAVEN, A.M., Malden, Mass. FOREIGN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE... Srxopsis OF THE QUARTERLIES–DR. SMITH ON FREE-WILL.. QUARTERLY Book TABLE. 275 281 284 308 JULY NUMBER. PAGB THE GREEK CHURCH, CONSIDERED PARTICULARLY IN ITS RELA- TION TO THE LATIN. [ARTICLE First.]..... Rev. R. B. WELON, A.M., Clifton Park, N. Y. THE SUPERANNUATED, AND HOW THEY ARE CARED FOR........ 344 Rev. M. L. SCUDDER, A.M., Hartford, Conn. ERASTUS WENTWORTH, D.D., Troy, N. Y. John Johnston, LL.D., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. LESSON FROM THE BAR TO THE PULPIT.. CALEB E. WRIGHT, Esq., Wilkesbarre, P& THE DOCTRINE CONCERNING GOD... Rev. 8. D. SIMONDS, San Francisco, Cal. AFFINITY OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK LANGUAGES. JANES STRONG, S.T.D., Flushing, N. Y. FOREIGN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.... OCTOBER NUMBER. GUIZOT ON THE RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS OF THE DAY. Rev. A. STEVENS, LL.D., Mamaroneck, N. Y. THE GREEK CHURCH, CONSIDERED PARTICULARLY IN ITS RELA- TION TO THE LATIN. (SECOND ABTICLE.). Rev. R. B. WELCH, A.M., Clifton Park, X. Y. FROM THE REVUE DES DEUX ZONDES, (J. JAMIN.) W. H. LARRAREF, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. L. R. Dunn, Newark, N. J. REVIEW OF SIR CHARLES LYELL ON THE "ANTIQUITY OF MAN." 559 Rev. Thomas HUELBURT, Sarnia, C. W. S. G. ARNOLD, Esq., Georgetown, D. C. FOREIGN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.. FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Art. I.—THE IDEA OF GOD AS A LAW OF RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT. RELIGION, true or false, is the development of the soul toward some recognized divinity. Such divinity is as truly and essentially its object, as the soul is its subject. In the popular notion religion consists in creeds, in forms of worship, in ceremonies and rules of life. Thus we speak of the religion of Buddha, of Brahma, of Zoroaster, of Mohammed; of the Jewish religion. But, in any exact sense, creeds, forms, usages, ceremonies, rules, are only the modes and means of religion, not the religion itself. This we find in certain states or exercises of the rational and affectional nature toward some divinity. Hence it is only as we come to the recognition of a divinity, and to the exercise of such thought and affection toward the same, that we enter the religious state. However active the soul may be, or vast the range of its research, or truthful and valuable its acquirements; or, however active and intense the emotions, and though they fill the circle of all other relations, still there is no religion till the soul rests upon some divinity. Without a god, without religion. True religion is the right development of the soul toward God. Only as we rise to a knowledge of him, and to a right exercise of thought and affection toward him, do we reach a true religious state. There are many virtuous affections belonging to the sphere of our earthly relations. They are rich in FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XVII.-1 |
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