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shall we revise the Westminster Confession of 

 Faith ? " consisted of papers edited by Charles 

 A. Briggs, D. D. " Errors of Campbellism " 

 were reviewed by T. McK. Stuart, D. D., and 

 Rev. John H. Hopkins printed in book form 

 " Articles on Romanism : Monsignor Capel ; Dr. 

 Littledale," first published in the "American 

 Church Review." "Life inside the Church of 

 Rome " was an exposition made by " The Nun of 

 Kenmare," while ."Who was Bruno?" by J. A. 

 Mooney, gives the Catholic side of that famous 

 controversy. Prof. George Trumbull Ladd wrote 

 an " Introduction . to Philosophy, an Enquiry 

 after a Rational System of Scientific Principles 

 in their Relations to Ultimate Reality," and J. 

 P. Newman " The Supremacy of Law." From 

 Dr. James McCosh we had a study of " Prevail- 

 ing Types of Philosophy," as well as an enlarged 

 and improved edition of " The Religious Aspect 

 of Evolution," while "The Evolution of Man 

 and Christianity," by Rev. Howard MacQueary, 

 led to the trial of that clergyman on charge of 

 heresy, by the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

 " Evolution " was the title given to fifteen lect- 

 ures and discussions before the Brooklyn Ethical 

 Association, and " Semitic Philosophy," by Philip 



C. Friese, showed the ultimate social and scien- 

 tific outcome of original Christianity in its con- 

 flict with surviving ancient heathenism. " Chris- 

 tian Socialism" was treated by Rev. P. W. 

 Sprague, and from Revs. H. T. Bray and J. Con- 

 way we have " The Evolution of Life " and " Ra- 

 tional Religion." "The Way out of Agnosti- 

 cism " was shown by Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 

 and " Concessions of ' Liberalists ' to Orthodoxy," 

 by Daniel Dorchester, D. D.. published in 1878, 

 was reissued during the year. " Jewish Dreams 

 and Realities " were " Contrasted with Islamitic 

 and Christian Claims " by Rabbi Henry Iliowizi, 

 and Lorenzo Burge supplied a theory of his own 

 as to the " Origin and Formation of the Hebrew 

 Scriptures." "Judaism and Christianity" were 

 dealt with by Prof. C. H. Toy. M. J. Barnett 

 wrote a metaphysical work upon " The Five Re- 

 deemers," and " Liberty and Life " was a series 

 of discourses by E. P. 'Powell, somewhat in the 

 style of Robert G. Ingersoll, which last writer 

 conducted a symposium with H. 0. Pentecost 

 and others entitled "Free Thought, is it de- 

 structive or constructive ? " Hudson Tuttle had 

 a volume on " Religion of Man and Ethics of 

 Science," and " The World moves : all goes well " 

 was the cheerful conclusion of " a layman." In 

 religious history we have " Chapters from the 

 Religious History of Spain," by H. C. Lea ; " The 

 Church in the British Isles," five lectures by as 

 many divines of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 

 delivered under the auspices of the Church Club 

 of New York ; a " History of the American Epis- 

 copal Church," by Rev. S. D. McConnell ; " The 

 Lutherans in America," by Edmund Jacob Wolf, 



D. D. ; " The Presbytery of the Log College, or 

 the Cradle of the Presbyterian Church in Ameri- 

 ca," by Rev. Thomas Murphy ; " Boston Unitari- 

 anism, 1820-1850," originally designed as a study 

 of the life of Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, 

 by Octavius B. Frothingham ; " Unitarianism," 

 a course of sixteen lectures delivered in Channing 

 Hall, Boston, by Rev. Joseph H. Allen, Andrew 

 P. Peabody, and others ; " Carmel in America, a 

 Centennial History of the Discalceated Carmel- 



ites in the United States," by Charles Warren 

 Currier ; " Roman Catholicism in America," by 

 J. E. C. Bodley ; and " Our Own Church " (the 

 Methodist Episcopal), by Bishop John H. Vin- 

 cent. " The Colored Man in the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church " was the subject of a volume by 

 Rev. L. M. Haygood, and " The Negro Baptist 



History or the Young 

 People's Baptist Union of Brooklyn," by T. R. 

 Jones; the "Annals of Trinity Church, New- 

 port, R. I., by G. C. Mason; "The True Historic 

 Episcopate, as seen in the Original Constitution 

 of the Church of Alexandria," by Rev. Mason 

 Gallagher ; " The First Church, Quincy," a me- 

 morial of its two hundred and fiftieth anniver- 

 sary, edited by Rev. D. M. Wilson ; and the " His- 

 tory of the O'ld South Church, Boston," in two 

 volumes, by H. A. Hill, are of local interest, 

 while "Christian Missions in the Nineteenth 

 Century " were treated by Elbert S. Todd, D. D. 

 To biblical criticism and study belong: "The 

 Bible verified," by Rev. A. W. Archibald ; " In- 

 dications of the First Book of Moses, called Gene- 

 sis," by E. B. Latch; the seven. volumes of the 

 " American Commentary on the New Testa- 

 ment,/ edited by Alvah Hovey; "The World 

 lighted," a study of the Apocalypse, by C. E. 

 Smith ; " Word Studies in the New Testament," 

 Vol. Ill, by Dr. Marvin R. Vincent; "Aids to 

 Scripture Study," by Frederick Gardiner; " Bible 

 Studies for 1891," by G. F. Pentecost, D. D., who 

 published also "Israel's Apostasy, and Studies 

 from the Gospel of St. John covering the Inter- 

 national Sunday - School Lessons for 1891"; 

 " English Bible 'Studies," by James C. Murray ; 

 the second series of " Studies in St. Luke's Gos- 

 pel," by Charles S. Robinson, D. D. ; and " Es- 

 chatology," by F. G. Hibbard, D. D. " The Lost 

 Tribes of Israel " were the theme of C. L. McCar- 

 tha, and also of Charles A. L. Totten in " The 

 Voice of History." " The Sabbath in History " 

 was treated by Rabbi I. Schwab. " Personal 

 Creeds," by Newman Smyth, was a timely vol- 

 ume, and "Prayer as a Theory of Fact," by D. 

 W. Faunce, D. D., received the Dartmouth prize 

 for 1889. Among sermons are to be noted " Five 

 Sermons;" by Bishop H. B. Whipple, preached 

 on special occasions ; " The Calvary Pulpit ; 

 Christ and him crucified," by Rev. R. S. Mac- 

 Arthur; "The Light of the "World and other 

 Sermons," by Philips Brooks, D. D. ; " The Causes 

 of the Soul," by Rev. W. R. Huntington ; " The 

 Seven Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the 

 Church," by Howard Crosby, who also published 

 separately " Will and Providence " and the 

 " Good and Evil of Calvinism " ; " Peculiarities 

 of the Disciples," by B. B. Tyler ; " Trumpet 

 Peals," by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage ; " Sermons 

 and Lectures," by J. F. Loughlin, D. D. : " Burn- 

 ing Questions," by Rev. Washington Gladden ; 

 " The Person and Ministry of the Holy Spirit," 

 twelve sermons by as many speakers, edited by 

 A. C. Dixon ; and " Cities of Our Faith," by Rev. 

 S. Lunt Caldwell. " Outpourings of the Spirit " 

 was a narrative of spiritual awakenings in dif- 

 ferent ages and countries, by Rev. W. A. McKay, 

 and " Why not and why," short and plain studies 

 for the busy, by Rev. W. Dudley Powers. " The 

 Ten Commandments in the Nineteenth Century " 



