The present edition has been carefully revised, and a number of errors in the three preceding editions have been corrected. With the variorum readings of the different editors and the manuscripts, and the remodeled Greenfield's Lexicon appended, the student will find little room for criticism but plenty of occasions to test the utility of the volume. Point Prominence; the History of a Church. By Rev. Y. B. MEREDITH.* A LAMENTED college president, walking into his class-room one morning with a weary and dejected expression, dropped into his chair and exclaimed: "I do believe that Christianity actually intensifies the meanness of a mean man." It must have been a severe trial of patience—and a college president has not a few such trials-that wrenched such an expression from him, for he was a man who habitually spoke kindly of others. The readers of "Point Prominence" will be inclined to subscribe to the opinion, however, especially if they have had any experience with that class who have the gift of grace in their hearts, but are very careful to keep the door locked lest it should get away from them. It is the simple story of a pastor's life with a Church, many members of which seemed to be of the opinion that the preacher, being engaged on spiritual things, had no need of any of those things which their own grosser natures required, such as bread, meat, potatoes, clothes without holes in them, and the like. The conclusion of the story relieves, in a measure, its bitterness, for every thing comes out satisfactorily. The Church members have their duty brought home to their consciences, and the whole aspect of the fastidious, ungrateful, penurious charge is changed. A minister's wife upon reading the book, remarked, "I have seen days like those, and for much the same reason, too." The author in his Preface distinctly states that the pictures are drawn from llfe, and he adds: "Professed Christians are either the best or the worst of men; and when a man gives up vital religion for the sake of worldly gain, be assured he is capable of close figures on his pastor's salary and all God's other claims." *Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe. Price, $1.00. 210586 THE BAPTIST QUARTERLY REVIEW, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1883. J. R. BAUMES, D. D., EDITOR. CONTENTS. PAGE. I. THE TRUE STORY OF JOHN SMYTH, THE SE-BAPTIST. By I II. THE SUBJECTION OF CHRIST. BY REV. PHILIP S. MOXOM, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Cleveland, O., 24 III. THOMAS AQUINAS. (Art. Second.) BY THE LATE REV. RICHARD M. 39 IV. DR. SEARS AS A THEOLOGICAL PROFESSOR. BY PROF. O. S. . V. JESUS CHRIST AND "THE NEWER SCHOOL OF CRITICISM.” BOOKS-REVIEWS AND NOTICES, CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY J. R. BAUMES, No. 180 Elm Street. 1883. 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