A MAGAZINE BEARING ON PROPHETIC ENQUIRY. EDITED BY WILLIAM MAUDE. "Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech." VOLUME II. ODLI LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW. Hades not the Grave..................23, 54, 94, 127, 163, 192, 260, 326, 336 Human Race, The Future of the. .....133, 169 Infallibility 381 Invisible World, Opinions of the Contemporaries of our Lord and 238 Literature-continued. Minton's All Things are Yours... Minton's Confessional, Altar, and Chancel Soul, The. Is it in its own Nature Immortal? Wilkin's Errors and Terrors of Blind Guides.... 299 200 200 OUR HOPE: A Magazine bearing on Prophetic Enquiry. OCTOBER, 1874. CHILDISHNESS IN RELIGION. "And Jesus called a little child unto Him, and set him in the midst of them, and said-Verily, I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." -Matt. xviii. 2, 3. "That we be no longer children, tossed as waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness that leadeth to the system of error; but being followers of truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ."-Eph. iv. 14, 15, ALFORD'S Translation. BETWEEN these words of the Master and of the disciple there is no real discrepancy, for while the former exhorts to childlikeness, the latter expostulates against childishness. And need it be said that childlikeness and childishness are very different and even opposite characteristics, It is childlike to be teachable, for example, but it is childish to be "carried about by every wind of teaching." It is childlike to manifest in our words and conduct the harmlessness of the dove,'-thus" in malice being children;" but it is childish not to possess something of the prudence (ppóviμos) of the serpent'so "in understanding being men." It is childlike to have strong faith, but it is childish to allow our faith to be shaken by imaginary dangers. Peter was childlike B |