of Ireland; Bishop Brown, of England. Iment has expressly declared, that, in the The most effective speech on this side is said to have been made by Bishop Strossmayer, who demanded that the rights of the Bishops be extended, and that a General Council be called every tenth year. These views have, in particular, been supported by Cardinal Schwarzenberg and Primate Simor, of Hungary PROTESTANTISM. THE BROAD CHURCH PARTY IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.-The Church of England does not find it as easy as many, both High and Low Church, had hoped, to get rid of the Broad Church or "Liberal" and "Rationalistic" elements. Even the case of Dr. Colenso remained, at the close of the year, in an unsettled condition. The Bishop of Cape Town, a resolute High Churchman and Ritualist, has consecrated a new Bishop (Macrorie, also a High Churchman) for the diocese of Colenso, and this act has been fully approved by all the other Bishops of South Africa, who do no longer recognize Bishop Colenso, but hold communion with his successor; but the English Govern eyes of the law, Colenso continues to be the regular Bishop. In England, the Broad Church controversy has been violently renewed by the appointment of one of the seven authors of the celebrated Essays and Reviews," Dr. Temple, as Bishop of Exeter. The High and Low Church party were equally surprised and mortified at the appointment; a joint opposition was at first thought of, but soon given up. A part of the chapter, chiefly High Churchmen, mustered courage to declare concurrence in the election commanded by the Government, and when the majority elected Dr. Temple, entered a protest against the election. A majority of the Bishops likewise expressed either dissatisfaction with, or, at least, regret at the election. Still the Government carried its point, and Dr. Temple has become a member of the Episcopal bench. Strong efforts were then made to prevail upon the new Bishop to repudiate his contribution to the "Essays and Reviews;" but though the new Bishop appears to be willing to act now with greater reserve, he has as yet shown no sign of an intention to separate from the party with which he had heretofore acted in union. ART. X.-FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY. Dr. Pichler, formerly Professor of The well-known Wolfgang Menzel has Munich, at present Librarian in St. Catholic Theology at the University of published a large work on the Ante-Petersburg, has published a work on christian Doctrines of Immortality (Die the Real Obstacles to, and the FundaVorchristlichen Unsterblichkeitslehren. mental Condition of, a Thorough Reform Leipz. 1869. 2 vols. The author says that this work was begun more than thirty years ago, and he claims to have found many new results, especially as regards the opinion of the ancient Germans, with regard to immortality. Among the numerous works which appear annually on the history of the Jesuits, one by Dr. Zirngible, author of an excellent life of Dr. H. Jacobi, deserves a special mention. It treats, in particular, of the history of the Jesuit schools in Germany. (Studien über das Institut der Gesellschaft Jesus. Leipz. 1869.) of the Catholic Church, especially in Germany, (Die wahren Hindernisse und die Grundbedingungen einer durohgreifenden Reform der Kathol. Kirche zu nächst in Deutschland. Leipz. 1870.) The author, who has written the best history of the division of the Latin and Greek Churches, and several other learned works on Church history, all of which have been put on the Roman Index, shows in this new work the utter rottenness of the Church of Rome. Like a number of Roman Catholic writers, he thinks that apostolic Christianity has been preserved much better among the Oriental Churches than by | has made a profound impression. Rome. in An other theological opponent of this penalty is H. Hetzel, who has written a very One of the most important works of elaborate work against it, (Die Todesrecent Roman Catholic literature, the strafe Ihrer culturgeschichtlichen "Life of Photius," by Professor Her- Entwicklung, Berlin, 1870,) in tracing genröther, of the University of Wurzburg, its history among all the civilized nahas been completed by the publication of tions from the earliest times to the presthe third volume. (Photius, Patriarch ent day, and reviewing all the arguments von Constantinopel. Ratisbon, 1869.) which at any time have been brought The third volume contains three sections: forward for or against it. A physician, 1. The writings of Photius; 2. His the- Dr. Schaible, likewise an earnest oppoology; 3. The progress of the Greek nent, treats of the subject with special schism. The author treats the whole reference to England, (Ueber die Todes subject from a strictly Roman Catholic und Freiheitsstrafe. Berlin, 1869.) From stand-point; he recognizes, however, the the stand-point of law, the penalty is atliterary merits of Photius. In the last tacked in the work of Loos, Town Counsection the author carries the ecclesi- selor at Berlin, on the impossibility to astical controversy between the eastern and western Churches to the end of the Prove the penalty of death. (Die Unmoglichkeit einer Begründung der Todesstrafe. thirteenth century. He announces that Berlin, 1870.) On the other hand, the he is likely to treat in future of the ef- death penalty has found a number of new defenders, among whom are Pastor A. Fürer, (Die Todesstrafe, Schönebeck, 1869; an essay first read at the Lutheran Conference of Gnadau, and accompanied with an opinion of President von Gerlach, for many years one of the leaders of the conservative party,) Professor Dr. Wuttke, well known as a prominent theological writer, (in an article published in the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung,) and Dr. Kuntze, Professor of Law. (Ueber die Todesstrafe, Leipsic, 1868.) forts to reunite the two Churches. Professor Hergenrother had promised to publish, as an appendix to the third volume, several inedited works of Photius; but he has since changed his intention, and published these works in a separate work, entitled Monumenta Graca ad Photium ejusque historiam spectantia. (Ratisbon, 1869.) These works, to each of which a Latin translation is added, are partly, without doubt, from Photius; partly their Photian origin is doubtful, The Roman Catholics are fond of bragand partly they are surely from others. The publication of other works of prom-ging of the large number of distinguished inent authors of the Greek Church is promised. Germany has produced during the last two years a very extensive literature on the death penalty, called forth by the discussion of the subject in the Legisla. tive Assemblies. Public opinion declares overwhelmingly against the penalty. From a theological point of view, one of the six "prelates" of the Lutheran Church of Wurtemberg, Mehring, has been for years a very earnest opponent of the death penalty, and a pamphlet published by him on the subject (Die Frage von der Todesstrafe, second edition, 1869) A Protestant persons who, since the beginning of the An able work on the Mormons has been published by Dr. Moriz Busch, (Geschichte der Mormonen, Leipsic, 1870.) ART. XI.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES, AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS. American Quarterly Reviews. AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW, January, 1870. (New York.) 1. What is it to Think? 2. Sin and Suffering in the Universe. 3. The Meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in New York. 4. Inspiration and the Historic Element in the Scriptures. 5. Biblical Theology, with Especial Reference to the New Testament. 6. The Development of Doctrine. 7. Solomon's Song. BAPTIST QUARTERLY, January, 1870. (Philadelphia.)—1. Christ's Exaltation and Second Coming. 2. Spectrum Analysis. 3. Conception of Christ and Christianity in "Ecce Homo." 4. The New Dominion. 5. Baptism in the Greek Church. 6. The True Method of Preaching. BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, January, 1870. (New York.)1. The History and Literature of Civil Service Reform. 2. The Early Regeneration of Sabbath-school Children. 3. The Life of Samuel Miller, D. D., LL. D. 4. A Fragment. What the Greeks thought of the Religion of the Jews. 5. The Reign of Law. 6. Adjourned Meetings of the General Assemblies at Pittsburgh. 7. The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, D. D. 8. The Presbyterian ChurchIts Position and Work. CHRISTIAN QUARTERLY, January, 1870. (Cincinnati.)-1. The Creed Question. 2. Christian Apologetics -Strauss and Renan. 3. The Newspaper and Periodical Press. 4. The Papacy and Civil Government. 5. Saul of Tarsus and Paul the Apostle. 6. The Eyes of the "World." EVANGELICAL QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1870. (Gettysburgh.)-1. Impor tance and Connection of Works and Faith. 2. The Influence of Revivals on the State of Religion. 3. Reminiscences of Lutheran Ministers. 4. Piety and Property. 5. The Greatness of being Useful. 6. The Chinese Problem. 7. The Ascensions of Christ. 8. The Question of Close Communion. 9. Christ's Prophecy of his Sufferings. 10. The Total Eclipse of the Sun of 1869. FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, October, 1869. (Dover.) 1. Sketches of Life and Labor in India. 2. Special Providence and Free Moral Agency not Incompatible. 3. The Disestablishment of the Irish Church. 4. Lessons from the Temptations of Christ. 5. The Religious Condition of France, from the Revolution of 1789 to the Present Time. 6. The Office and Work of the Christian Ministry. 7. The Renaissance and the Reformation. MERCERSBURG REVIEW, January, 1870. (Philadelphia.)—1. Dr. Ebrard, and his Position on the Church Question. 2. The Intermediate State. 3. Authority and Freedom. 4. Anthropological Statistics. 5. Progressive Conservatism. 6. Once for All. 7. The Pericopes, or Selections of Gospels and Epistles for the Church Year. 8. The Bible in the Common Schools. 9. The General Synod. NEW ENGLANDER, January, 1870. (New Haven.)-1. The Chinese Migration. 2. The Life of a Jesuit Father of Our Own Day-Father De Ravignan. 3. Father Hyacinthe.. 4. Review of the Life of Dr. Joseph Addison Alexander. 5. Moral Results of the Romish System. 6. James Russell Lowell and Robert Browning. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, January, 1870. (Boston.)-1. The Let-alone Principle. 2. Indian Migrations. 3. An Ancient Creed. 4. Railway Problems in 1869. 5. The Ecclesiastical Crisis in England. 6. The Treasury Reports. THEOLOGICAL MEDIUM, January, 1870. (Nashville, Tenn.)-1. The Necessity of a Knowledge of Ecclesiastical History to Young Men preparing for the Ministry. 2. The Atonement. 3. Preparation for the Pulpit. 4. Infant Salvation. 5. Power in the Pulpit. 6. A Right View of the Church is Necessary to a Right View of the Ministry-The Life of the One is Maintained by the Life of the Other. 7. Woman's Work in the Church. 8. The Bible in the Public Schools. UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY, January, 1870. (Boston.)-1. Africa: Physical, Historical, and Ethnological. 2. Primeval Man. 3. The Nature and Character of Christ. 4. Life and Death Eternal. 5. Recent German Literature. 6. The Spirit of the Monks. 7. The Moravians BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, January, 1870. (Andover.)-1. The Incarnation. 2. Revelation and Inspiration. 3. The Human Intellect. 4. The Progress of Truth Dependent on Correct Interpretation. 5. Bethesda and its Miracle. 6. The Doctrine of the Apostles. 7. Recent Theories on the Origin of Language. 8. New Studies in Egyptology. 9. Assyrian Studies-Text-Books. 10. The Topography of Jerusalem. The first article by Professor Reubelt is learned and able. It is written in favor of what is called the Kenosis; that is, as we understand it, the doctrine that, dichotomically speaking, the second person of the Trinity reduced itself to human dimensions and became the soul of Jesus. The soul of Christ was the Logos diminished down to humanity. We are not disposed to dogmatize on such a subject. We must speak with respect of a dogma held by Dorner, Pressensé, and by Dr. Nast. But as the doctrine must necessarily be that the Logos became truly and intrinsically a human soul, (otherwise Christ was not a perfect man,) it seems to follow that during the period of the hypostatic union there is no divine Logos, and there is no Trinity; only a dunity. To the 'discussion of this view the Professor would forbid our coming with "preconceived notions." But, we reply, we necessarily come to all subjects, not blank and idiotic, but with some previous prepossessions. And when we are told that the Infinite can become finite, can annihilate an infinity of power, and so can annihilate Himself, we beg to be excused from surrendering all our previous views of the necessary existence of God, and approaching the awful confines of Atheism. Surrender the doctrine of the necessary existence of God, and you surrender one stronghold of Theism. God exists in the fullness of his necessary omnipotence, omnipresence, and eternity. These attributes he may vail, may withhold their display in specific acts; but how can he abdicate or diminish their existence ? The Professor's first proof-text is, The Word became flesh; which he transforms into The Word became man. Thereupon he insists that these words affirm that the eternal Logos ceased to be God and commenced to be man! But if yέveto is to receive so literal a rendering, we must literalize oàp also; and then we shall have it that the eternal Logos ceased to be God and became a portion of fleshly matter. The Professor's argument from Mark xiii, 32, we think, he will find amply answered in our commentary on the passage. English Reviews. BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, January, 1870. (London.)-1. The Jewish Synagogue. 2. The Distinctive Character of Old Testament Scripture. 3. Life of Sir William Hamilton. 4. Laics in Theology-1. Matthew Arnold. 5. "As Regards Protoplasm." 6. A Chapter on France. 7. Union of Church and State. 8. Female Catholic Life in France. 9. Principal Candlish's Introductory Lecture. BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1870. (London.)-1. The Irish Land Question. 2. Lord Lytton's Horace. 3. Revision of the English Bible. 4. The Free Church of Scotland. 5. National Education-The Union vs. The League. 6. Ecumenical Councils. 7. Mr. Tennyson's New Poems. LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1870. (London.)-1. Denominational and National Education. 2. The Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson. 3. Morris's Poetry. 4. The Greco-Russian Church. 5. Reconstruction of the Irish Church. 6. Ultramontanism. 7. Egypt and the Suez Canal. 8. Sainte-Beuve and Renan. NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, January, 1870. (Scott's Republication, New York, 140 Fulton-street.)-1. Babylonian and Assyrian Libraries. 2. Swift. 3. Origin of American State Rights. 4. Autobiographies. 5. Decentralization in France and Prussia. 6. History of Irish Land Tenures. 7. Repentance of the Tory Party. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, January, 1870. (Scott's Republication, New York, 140 Fulton-street.)-1. Our Colonial Empire. 2. Land Tenures and their Consequences. 3. The Subjection of Women. 4. The Irish Land Question. 5. Prostitution: Governmental Experiments in Controlling it. 6. Our Policy in China. 7. American Claims on England. EDINBURGH REVIEW, January, 1870. (Scott's Republication, New York, 140 Fulton-street, N. Y.)-1. Mr. Froude's History of Queen Elizabeth. 2. Geological Theory in Britain. 3. Memoirs of General von Brandt. 4. Sir Charles Adderley on Colonial Policy. 5. John Calvin in Church and State. 6. London Topography and Street-nomenclature. 7. Veitch's Memoir of Sir William Hamilton. 8. The Prechristian Cross. 9. The Irish Land Question. Touching the destiny of earth and sun, the second article has the following passage: It is absolutely certain that all planetary matter is inevitably gravitating toward the sun, which will be the common bourne of our system. "As surely," eloquently writes Sir William Thomson, "as the weights of a clock run down to their lowest position, from which they can never rise again unless fresh energy is communicated to them from some source not yet exhausted, so surely must planet after planet creep in, age by age, toward the sun;" not one can escape its fiery end. In like manner the satellites of the planets must inevitably fall into their respective planets. As, then, it has been proved by geology that our earth had a fiery beginning, so it is shown, by an appeal to the law of gravitation, that it will have a fiery end... The earth passed from the incandescent into the habitable state, and will have its individuality annihilated by falling into the sun, and the same fate will ultimately overtake the sun if it be true that it also is revolving round some enormously distant center of attraction. German Reviews. STUDIEN UND KRITIKEN. (Essays and Reviews.) 1870. Second Number. Essays: 1. BEYSCHLAG, The "Vision Theory" and its most Recent Defenses 2. WIESELER, The Fourth Book of Ezra Examined with Regard to its Content. and Age. 3. Christianity and Civilization. Thought and Remarks: 1. SACK, A Few Passages on the Fear of the Lord. Reviews: CASPANY, ChronologicalGeographical Introduction to the Life of Jesus Christ, reviewed by RoscH. The first article concludes the important defense of the reality of the resurrection of Christ, against the work of Dr. Holsten, |