MACULLAR,WILLIAMS & PARKER, Importers and Jobbers of fine Woolen Goods. Manufacturers, Jobbers and Retailers of Finst And many others. Clergymen, Laymen and Lady Writers. The Proprietor would inform the subscribers and readers of this Magazine, that it will be conducted this year by Rev. John H. Morison D. D., Editor. Assisted by Rev. E. H. Sears, with other distinguished Clergymen of the Denomination as Contributors, we hope to carry the Monthly to a high position, as a Religious Magazine and Theological Review. Each No. will contain one or more articles written expressly for the Review, expressing the highest Christian thought, to which the Periodical is pledged. Also a Sermon, with a variety of short articles in prose and poetry of a religious and practical character, which may meet the wants of families. The Department of TOPICS OF THE MONTH, will contain a brief Record of our Religious Times, selected from Magazines and Papers of different denominations. THE RANDOM READINGS, will comprise short articles, original and selected. By E. H. SEARS. New Publications.-Books sent to the Editors will be reviewed, and a number of the magazine containing the notices sent to the Author or Publisher. All communications for the work must be addressed to the Editor, care of the Proprietor. ADVERTISEMENTS. We shall be pleased to receive advertisements from our subscribers and friends, which will be inserted on very favorable terms, and the Magazine sent to all Advertisers FREE, who desire it, during the term of the advertisement. One advantage in this mode of advertising, is that periodicals of this character are not destroyed, as newspapers are, but preserved through the year or longer, if not bound into volumes. Published the first of every month in numbers averaging one hundred pages each, which will give twelve hundred pages a year, - -two large Royal Octavo Volumes well printed, on fine paper and new type. Subscribers will be furnished with the back volumes, neatly bound in cloth, in exchange for the old numbers, by paying the cost of binding. Terms.-Five Dollars per Annum. Single Numbers, 50 Cents. Two Copies to one address, $4.50 each, CLUBS.-The Magazine w th Littell's Living Age, $9.00 20 00 12.00 Terms, $5.00 per Annum, payable in Advance. Single Numbers 50 Cents. THE Religious Magazine AND Monthly Review. MAY, 1872. REV. JOHN H. MORISON, D: D. Editor. "THE CHURCH HEARETH NONE BUT CHRIST.”—Martin Luther. BOSTON: LEONARD C. BOWLES, PROPRIETOR. NO. 36 BROMFIELD STREET, Room No. 13. Second Flight. JESUS THE SENT OF GOD. By Rev. F. A. Farley, D D. To think that everything has a cause is not the same as to know the cause of anything. Nor does a knowledge of any special cause necessarily imply an understanding of what a cause is. The purpose of this essay is to attempt to make clear what is a cause; and to show that a man's mind has a knowledge of itself as a cause; of matter as a cause; and of the Creator as a cause. They who are familiar with the great controversy about causation will perceive the relations to different schools of the views which shall be presented. Space does not permit much more than a brief statement of my own opinion with some of its reasons. The several views of the chief writers upon causation may be classified as follows: I. They who define a cause to be a form of being which precedes newer forms of the same being. II. They who define a cause to be something which is unconditionally and invariably antecedent to, or present |