The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-05-04

Attitude OF the Christian Church." by
Professor Ransom B. Welch, D. D. An
article on Charles Hodge by Prof F. L.
Patton, is one which all will read as a
matter of course.
The Bs6Aotheca Sacra opens with an
article by the Rev. DR.. VIM. Hayes Ward
of N. York city, on 1.-The Serpent Tempter
in Oriental Mythology" An elaborate
and learned article follows, by the Rev.
W. 81. Cobb, of Uxbridge, Mass, on 1.-TWO
Isaiahs, or One?" The Rev. William De
Loss Love contributes his fifth article on
The Sabbath" The point discussed in
this is. Did the Early Fathers Hold that
the Fourth Commandment is Abolished {?
We have read these articles of Mr.. Love
from the first, and regard them as an ex-
ceedingly valuable contribution to the
discussion of the Sabbath question; in
deed, they constitute in our judgment the
fullest and atlest treatise on the subject
with which we are acquainted, as far as
ne has gone. Not being yet concluded,
we cannot speak of the work 1--WE presume
the articles will be collected in a volume)
as whole. 1.-The Fundamental Laws of
Belief in this same number of this re-
view is good article "The Syntax of
the Hebrew word translated Seed" is val
liable. There are articles also on iona
than Edwards and the Trinity, on Theo-
logical Education, etc.
A very valuable article on anglican
Exclusiveness: its Rise and Progress"
will be found in the April number of the
Catholic Presbyterian, by the late Rev. DR..
Andrew Cameron of Melbourne, Victoria.
This article (from which we make long
extract elsewhere) shows beyond all pos
sibility of contradiction that the first and
second generations of English Reformers
held no exclusive theory of Episcopacy !;
that there is no trace of such theory in
the writings of Cranmer, Parker, Grin
dial, and Whitgift, the first four Protes
tant Archbishops of Canterbury. The
Church of England was for generations
IN full communion with all the other Pro
testant Churches of Europe.
In the Contemporary Revie,O the Duke
of Argyle continues his articles on "The
Unity of Nature, the subject of the pre-
sent one being "The Origin of Religion
considered in the light of the Unity of
Nature" Other articles are: "The Ar
rogance of Modern Skepticism," "a
Study of Carlyle" The South African
Question" Edgar Quinet."
The Methodist Quarterly Re0iew for
April has profound analysis of " English
Thought in the Eighteenth Century" by
Prof. Winchester, Wesleyan University
Conn. The writer is thoroughly &C
quainted with the literature and discus
sions of the eighteenth century. Another
article in this Review is on Hermann
Lotze, by W. L. Cooling A. NJ, Heidel-
burg. 1t illustrates what DIR. Dabney
points out in his article above referred to
the capriciousness and changefulness
OF German speculation. Until the time
OF Kant most philosophers regarded space
and time as purely objective-in word
as substantial things. Kant came for
ward and resolved these concepts into
mere mental impressions or forms of
thought-a garment in which the infinite
Idea revealed himself. Herbart held
space to be mere projection of the mind
in the spaceless world, and therefore
merely a subjective existence. Lotze,
until recently, held the SUFFICIENTLY of
both time and space, but in his latest
work he regards time as involving "a
certain degree Of objectivity" We should
be pleased to have it pointed out by those
philosophers who hold time to besa mere
fancy, how there can be SUCH thing as
cause and effect, which imply sequence,
without time. And SO if space has no
existence, the existence of Being becomes
unthinkable.
The Methodist Quarterly Revieao has
valuable department under the three
heads of Synopsis of the Quarterlies, -
Foreign Religious Intelligence. For
eign Literary Intelligence"
The British Quarterly Review for April
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