A.

Ahlhorn's Life of Urban Rhegius, no-
ticed, 451.
American Publications, noticed, 680.
Apostolic Salutations and Benedic-

tions, The, article on, by Rev. John
J. Owen, 707; different views ta-
ken of these salutations, 707; are
not supposed to have a priestly
significance, 707; are they to be
considered as expressive of strong
desire, or as declarative of a great
truth applicable to all Christians?
707; the benedictions not a mere
wish, 708 examination of differ-
ent salutations, 708; all have the
same general form of construction,
710; in the benedictions, a great-
er diversity of form, 710; a strik-
ing correspondence between the
salutations and benedictions, 711;
why were the apostolic greetings
limited to true believers? 713;
upon whom were the benedictions
pronounced? 713; benedictions
not a wish, but statements of a fact,
714; views of Winer, 714; of
Prof. Stuart, 715; grammatical con-
struction of these benedictions, 716;
benedictions found in the Old Tes-
tament, 719; modern ministers au-
thorized to pronounce these bene-
dictions, 713.

Atonement in its Relations to God and

Man, The, article on, by Rev.
Enoch Pond, D.D., 658; notice of
Dr. Beman's work on the acone-
ment, 685; brief statement of its ar- |
guments, 686; defects of the work,
688; as to the necessity of an atone-
ment, 689; in setting forth the re-

lations of the atonement to distrib-
utive justice, 690; misrepresenta-
tions by Dr. Hodge as to Christ's
mission in the world being de-
signed merely to make salvation
possible, 692; as to holding that the
atonement was a mere symbolical
method of instruction, 692; as to
teaching that Christ in his death
had no special reference to his own
people, 693; Dr. Beman charged, by
Dr. H., with wilful misrepresenta-
tion, 694; points in which the two
writers are agreed, 696; as to the
nature of Christ's sufferings and
death, 697; Dr. Hodge insists that
Christ suffered the penalty of a
broken law, 698; God's justice and
veracity does not require the exe-
cution of threatenings, 700; objec-
tions by Dr. Hodge to Dr. Beman's
doctrine of the atonement, 701;
justification said to be comfounded
with pardon, 702; that faith is
made of little importance, 704; al-
leged that Socinianism is promoted
by Dr. Beman's doctrine, 704.

B.

Barrows, Prof. E. P., articles by, 32.
563, 748.

Bible and the Classics. noticed, 467.
Bible and Slavery, The, article on,
by Prof. E. P. Barrows, 563; all
sophistry not due to a conscious de-
sign of deceiving men, 563; an
opinion taken on trust may be true,
564; definition of slavery as the
conversion of human beings into
merchandise, 565; this definition
does not accord with its practice,

566; still it is proper to judge of
slavery from its laws, 566; the
slave code not a dead letter, 566;
all organic arrangements must be
either normal arrangements or
abuse, 569; normal institutions in
harmony with the circumstances of
the race, 569; an abuse, at war
with the constitution and circum-
stances of man, 570; is slavery an
abuse? 573; attitude of the Bible
in regard to slavery, 574; He-
brew servitude did not have its or-

igin in any divine ordinance, 575;
its regulations as to divorce, 576;
as to bigamy, 577; the New Tes-
tament does not sanction Greek
and Roman slavery, 580; as to
Hebrew servants, 581; as to ser-
vants of a foreign origin, 582; kill-
ing a servant, 583; Hebrew ser-
vants had all privileges enjoyed by
freemen, 584; American slavery
argrees with Greek and Roman
slavery, 586; the latter not sanc-
tioned by the New Testament,
587; no word designed to regulate
Greek and Roman slavery, 587;
believing masters, 589; domestic
relations, 591; Christ abolished
polygamy but not slavery, 592; the
case of Onesimus, 594; the intrin-
sic character of American slavery,
as compared with God's word,
586; distinctions of race unscrip-
tural, 596; property in man, 597;
supremacy of masters over the do-
mestic relations of slaves, 599;
mental degradation of slaves, 600;
slavery not the same in practice as
in theory, 602; results of slavery,
602; attitude of the New Testa-
ment towards Roman slavery, 603.

C.

Crato von Crafftheim und Seine

Freunde, noticed, 678.
Christ Preaching to the Spirits in
Prison, article on, by Rev. James
B. Miles. 1; this passage, of all, the
most difficult of satisfactory inter-
pretation, 1; quotations from Lu-
ther, Leighton, and Brown as to its
difficulty, 2; what are the precise
words of the passage in question?

12:

3; important explanation which
the passage has received, 6; the
language found, in the apostles'
creed, 6; statements as to this by
Pearson in the Expositions of the
creed, 6; history of the doctrine
of Christ's descent into hell, 7;
this doctrine not tenable, 12; its
want of agreement with the gen-
eral scope of the teachings of Chris-
tianity on the subject, 12; Peter
not to be supposed to accommodate
his language to a vulgar error,
the notion of a subterranean man-
sion for departed spirits, common
before the time of Christ, 12; this
notion not countenanced in the
New Testament, 13; views of Ols-
hausen and Trench, 15; of Fair-
bairn and Huidekoper, 16; para-
dise and hades distinct, 17; teach-
ings of the early Christians on this
point, 19; the language of Peter
not that of accommodation to a
vulgar error, 21; a second inter-
pretation, that which regards the
spirits in prison as sinful men,
righteously condemned the slaves
of Satan, 22; a third interpretation,
that which makes "quickened in
spirit" signify that Christ was filled
with the Spirit in consequence of
his penal sufferings. 24; the pas-
sage implies that the Spirit of Christ
at the moment of the death of the
body, passed into the spirit-world.
25; what was done by the Spirit
of Christ in this paradise, 27; in
what sense did Christ preach to
these wicked spirits in the prison
of despair? 28; his preaching the
natural effect of the completion of
his sufferings and his entrance into
glory on the mind of lost spirits,
28; this view gives a proper sense
to the word kŋ ›úσσw, 29; in harmo
ny with the context, 30; it accords
with the analogy of faith, 31.
Close Communion, article on, by Rev.

Alvah Hovey, 133; statement of
the object of the article, 133; prin-
ciples, underlying the argument
for close communion, 133; the
New Testament an ultimate au-
thority, 133; constitution and

work of Christian churches defi-
nitely fixed in the New Testament,
135 churches who observe the
Lord's supper, to determine the
qualifications for admission, 136;
Baptists should follow out their doc-
trine of baptism to its legitimate re-
sults, 137; scriptural prerequisites
to communion, 139; faith in Christ
the first prerequisite, 139; proved
by the import of the ordinance,
139; by the example of the apos-
tolic churches, 140; by Paul's cau-
tion to the Corinthians as to self-
examination, 141; baptism the
second prequisite, 143; proved
from the relation of the two ordi-
nances to each other, 143; by the
apostolic churches, 144; not true
that some who received the sacra-
ment from Christ had never been
baptised, 145; John's baptism was
virtually Christian baptism, 147:
Christians of every name have
considered baptism a prerequisite
to communion, 151; an orderly
church walk the last prerequisite,
153; becoming connected with a
Christian church naturally precedes
admission to the eucharist, 153; the
Lord's supper a church ordinance,
154; Corinthian Christians wont to
"meet together" to observe the
Lord's supper," 154; it could not
be observed without coming togeth-
er, 155; the Corinthians came to-
gether in church to observe the
Lord's supper, 156; no other one
besides l'aul has spoken at length
of the Lord's supper in the New
Testament, 157; institution of the
supper by Christ, 160; the great
question relates to the subjects and
the rite of baptism, 164.
Church-Book of the Puritans at Ge-
neva, from 1555 to 1560, article
on, by Rev. H. B. Hackett, 469;
who the Refugees were, 469; for-
tunes of the book, 471; its preser-
vation at Geneva, 472; history of
the colony, 473; arrival of the fu-
gitives at Geneva, 479; return of
the exiles to England, 481; de-
scription of the book, 483; date of
admission, 485; explanation of the

tables, 487; tables, 488; personal
notices, 498; subsequent relation
of the English and Genevans to
each other, 509; Goodman's letter
to Calvin, 513.

D.

Divine Decrees, The, article on, by
Rev. D.T.Fiske, 400; importance
of the doctrine, 400; doctrine de-
fended, 401; the decrees of God
not commands, 402; not God's
wishes, 402; to be distinguished
from foreknowledge, 403; from
God's creative and administrative
agency, 403; his decrees not mere
permission, 404; they relate pri-
marily to his own acts, 404; differ-
ence between certainty and neces-
sity, 404; proofs of the doctrine,
406; argument from creation and
from providence, 406; the acts of
moral beings certain, 407; this cer-
tainty must have a cause, 407;
this certainty grounded on the di-
vine agency, 407; God's agency
proved to be the ground of this
certainty, 407; argument from the
analogy of the moral to the natural
world, 410; argument from the
foreknowledge of God, 412; from
the benevolence of God, 415; the
biblical argument, 416; the scrip-
tures teach that God decrees some
things, and some things to appear-
ance very trivial, 417; they imply
that God's purposes extend to all
things, 417; that God's decrees ex-
tend to events involving the moral
acts of men, 418; objections to the
doctrine from the holiness and be-
nevolence of God, 420; from his
justice and sincerity, 423; from
the inconsistency of the doctrine
with man's free agency, 424; no
influences employed by the Al-
mighty which are irresistible, 425 ;
he uses only influences to make
human actions certain, 426; objec-
tion from the supposed bad effect
of the doctrine, 428; cannot be
shown that it exerts a bad influ-
ence on such as embrace it, 429;
its influence sometimes bad because
the real doctrine is not seen, 4230;

Editorial Correspondence, letter from
Rev. B. Schneider, Aintab, Syria,
in regard to tombs near Oorfa, 849.
Ellicott on the Ephesians, noticed, 234 ;
Life of Christ, noticed, 235.
Egyptology, Oriental Archaeology and
Travel, works on, noticed, 881.
Erasmus, Life of, article on, by Rev.
Enoch Pond, D.D., 106; memoirs
of Erasmus, 106; his birth, 107;
his parentage, 107; his childhood,
108; his life in a convent, 109;
his release from the convent, 111;
enters into holy orders, 111; visits
Paris, 112; visits England, 113;
his poverty, 114; his second visit
to England, 115; second visit to
Rome, 116; goes again to England,
117; his views of England, 119; pa-
tronised by Charles V., 119; means
of his celebrity, 123; a great pro-
moter of classical learning, 123;
the father of biblical criticism, 123;
publishes an edition of the Fath-
ers, 123; Erasmus at the summit of
his glory, 124; beginning of the
Reformation, 124; his relation to
Luther, 125; controversy with Hut-
ter, 127; controversies with Lu-
ther, 128; his death, 131; character,

132.

English Etymology as adapted to Pop-
ular Use; its Leading Facts and
Principles, article on, by Dr. Benja-
min W. Dwight, 274; the science of
etymology hitherto much neglected,
274; advantages of etymology, 275;
applications of general philology to
English etymology, 277; the Eng-
lish one of the Teutonic family of
the Indo-European languages, 277;
grammatical identity the basis of
all linguistic analysis, 277; earlier
grammatical elements more
merous than in later derived lan-
guages, 277; Indo-European phil-
ology a system of high philosophi-

nu-

cal verbal analysis, 278; the graph-
ic symbols of all languages of one
common Phoenician origin, 280;
first principles and facts of leading
interest in the study of words, 280;
words never were arbitrary sym-
bols of thought, 280; the root con-
tains all the sense of the word, 281;
mutilations of original word-forms
always to be expected, 281; every
word, in order to its right etymol-
ogical attitude, must be compared
with other cognate words in the
same and in kindred languages,
281; the etymology of a word de-
cides its radical signification, 282;
no two separate words precisely
alike in their entire meaning, 282;
a word will take different mean-
ings according to the different
minds that use it, 283; derivation
of words not to be arrived at by a
guess, 284; some words cannot be
satisfactorily derived, 284; words
retrospective and not prospective,
285; the great mass of words fig-
urative and historical, 285; words
full of tendencies to the expression
of analogical ideas, 285; words
perpetually changing, 286; fixed
laws of criticism ever at work
upon words, 286; the revealing
power of language, 287; climatic
influences in language, 287; an
"imperium in imperio" in all lan-
guages, 287; general words made
special, 288; onomatopoetic words
in all languages, 288; self-defining
power of English words, 289;
words the most permanent of all
records, 290; the Latin the centre
of all modern etymological research,
291; specific facts pertaining to
English etymology, 291; English
etymology a vast unity in diversi-
ty, 291; facts and principles in
English concealed beneath the
surface, 292; the English addicted
to abbreviations of its forms, 292;
many Latin-English words unjoin-
ted from their original form, 293;
many English words of the same
origin though unlike in appearance,
294; many words apparently of the
same origin, not so, 295; many in-