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Rev. GILBERT HAVEN, Bishop of the M. E. Church.

WESLEY AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY. [ARTICLE FIRST.]

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CHRISTIAN LIFE AND PRACTICE IN THE EARLY CHURCH....................... 20

Rev. W. H. WITHEOW, A.M., Toronto, Canada,

SCHLIEMANN'S DISCOVERIES AT MYCENÆ AND TIRYNS..........

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Prof. HENRY M. BAIRD, D.D., University of the City of New York.

PLAGIARISM AND THE LAW OF QUOTATION. [SECOND PAPER.].............. 62

Rev. HENRY J. Fox, D.D., Hyde Park, Mass.

THE PARISH OF WESLEY......

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Rev. E. Q. FULLER, D.D., Editor of Methodist Advocate, Atlanta, Ga,

PRESENT ASPECTS OF SCOTCH THEOLOGY......

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H. K. CARROLL, Esq., Religious Editor of The Independent, New York.

THE ZENDAVESTA.................

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Rev. J. MURRAY Mitchell, LL.D., Edinburgh. (From the British and Foreign Evan-

gelical Review.)

WESLEY AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY. JARHOLE EEGOND.]..

Rev. GILBERT HAVEN, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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SOME OBJECTIONS TO THEISM..

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Rev. BORDEN P. BowNE, Professor in Boston University, Boston, Mass.

Rev. GEORGE PRENTICE, Professor in Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.

Rev. Dr. D. P. KIDDER, Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J.

HENRY M. BAIRD, D.D., Professor in the University of the City of New York.

Rev. Prof. PRENTICE, D.D, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.

OUR COLLEGES.....

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Rev. Prof. HARRINGTON, Vyar University; Middletown, Conn.

THE DEITY AND THE PHYSICAL FORCES

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S. D. HILLMAN, Ph.D., State Normal School, Shippensburgh, Pa.

THE FRENCH REFORMED CHURCH: ITS SYNOD OF 1872, AND SUB-

SEQUENT EVENTS..

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Rev. J. C. HARTZELL, D.D., Editor South-western Christian Advocate, New Orleans.

SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES.

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FOREIGN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE

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FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE.....

REV. REUBEN NELSON, D.D........

Rev. W. L. HARRIS, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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QUARTERLY REVIEW.

JANUARY, 1879.

ART. I.-WESLEY AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

[ARTICLE FIRST.]

A Biographical History of Philosophy. By G. H. LEWES. Two volumes. London.
History of Moral Science. By ROBERT BLAKEY.
Wesley and Methodism. By ISAAC TAYLOR.
England in the Eighteenth Century.

York: Appletons.

Short History of the English People.
Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography.
Studies in Poetry and Philosophy.
& Co.

Two volumes.

London.

By W. E. H. LECKEY. Two volumes. New

By J. R. GREEN. New York: Harper & Bros.
By SIR JAMES STEPHEN. Two vols. London.
By J. C. SHAIRP. Boston: Houghton, Osgood,

The North British Review. Article, S. T. Coleridge. December, 1865.
Life of John Locke. Two volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Lives of John Wesley. By WATSON, TYERMAN, RIGG, STEVENS, etc.
MANY are the modes of contemplating a great man in his re-
lations to his age and the ages. Luther was as mighty in his
effect on German literature as on German religion, on gov-
ernment as on ecclesiasticism. His influence on all tongues
and times is equally noticeable and unsearchable. Columbus,
opening a new world, is himself the vital center of innumerable
influences which are just beginning to be. Washington to
some minds is only a soldier, to others a surveyor, to others one
who couldn't tell a lie, to others the founder of an empire.
But Washington, in his influence on nationalities yet unformed,
the representative of free and equal government over all the
earth, is an unmeasured, an immeasurable, influence.

Wesley has more sides to him than any man of his century, FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XXXI.—1

not excepting Washington; for Wesley's government was both of this world and not of this world. It was a spiritual power that is not to be measured by national lines and political influences. It is a force yet unabated; nay, more and more potent with every increasing year. To estimate that force no essay, no book, no hour, no year of hours, is sufficient. It has already entered every form of human action, molded States, fashioned philosophies, leavened literature, created philanthropies, extirpated iniquities, occupied with its influences every land under the whole heaven. The souls that have been affected by his having been, spiritually and immortally, are already numbered by scores, if not hundreds, of millions; for the spiritual life of a century and a half in Protestant Christendom has been filled with this force. All the agencies for the renewal of society have been touched to their issues by this man. Not a slave has been liberated, not a prisoner relieved, not a barbarism in warfare abolished, not a tract has given light and refreshment to the soul, not a Sunday-school scholar been taught, not a joyous Christian melody been sung, not a Bible been dropped gratuitously into a welcome or unwelcome hand, not a cheap and vivid Christian story been published, not a rumseller or drinker been suppressed, but that it can be traced as directly to John Wesley as the rays in the sky can be traced to the sun.

These are but portions of his influence. He has affected medicine, and law, and politics, and literature. The change of medical treatment from the harsh, crude, cruel course of a century ago is due in no small degree to his common sense applied to the healing of the body. The other departments equally recognize his presence. Does this seem wild? Hear Sir James Stephen on one department of this work, a department already immeasurable in its influence. Speaking of the Clapham Sect, he says: "They were the sons, by natural and spiritual birth, of men who in the earlier days of Methodism had shaken off the lethargy in which, till then, the Churches of England had been entranced, of men by whose agency the great evangelic doctrine of faith, emerging in its primeval splendor, had not only overpowered the contrary heresies, but had, perhaps, obscured some kindred truths. In their one central and all-pervading idea they had found an influence hardly less than magical."