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it is an effluence from Him, Who Himself is Christ, revealed as Love, in the person of Jesus Christ, the the fact express Image of Divine Holiness, the Channel of mise of Divine Grace, the Author and Example of all true dwelling self-sacrifice. "They who would deprive mankind necessarily of Him, would tear out the corner-stone of the noblest edifice of humanity." But this they can never do. And in the darkest hour of human degradation and depression, the word of promise standeth sure, having this seal: "It is I, be not afraid:" "Lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."" Amen.

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1 Luthardt, Apolog., p. 297: "As little as mankind will ever be without religion, so little will they ever be without Christ-an historical, not a mythical Christ-an individual, not a mere symbol. Christ remains to us, as the highest we know and are capable of imagining within the sphere of religion-as He without whose presence in the mind perfect piety is impossible."-Strauss, Soliloquies, 67 (quoted by Dean Stanley, Sermons, p. 111). See Mr. Hutton, Essays, 1. 278.

2 Matt. xiv. 27, xxviii. 20. So Luther had good reason to liken the Church of Christ to the amaranth, which neither withers nor decays. "Sprinkled," he said, "with water, it becomes fresh and green once more, as if raised and wakened from the dead. Even so is the Church by God raised and wakened as out of the grave. For though temporal empires, principalities, and kingdoms have their changings—and, like flowers, soon fall and fade away-this Kingdom, so deeply rooted, by no power can be destroyed or wasted, but remains eternally.”— Tuble-Talk, 172, ed. Bohn. "Wherefore, being Christ doth promise His Presence unto the Church even unto the end of the world; He doth thereby assure us of the existence of the Church until that time, of which His Presence is the cause."-Pearson, on the Creed, Art. ix.

A.

INDEX

ADMINISTRATION, Divine, harmony
of, 127.

Admiration has a personal basis,

232.

Altruism not incompatible with
Christianity, 82, 377.
Anabaptists, their fanaticism not
due to the principles of the Re-
formation, 329.

Analogy of Nature, a theological
ground of argument, 212.
Antiquity no actual test of truth,
28.

Arabians, their services to physical
science, 350.

Aristotle, his medieval reputation,
247.

Art, its early relation to Christi-

anity, 280; its present position,
348.

Asceticism not essential to the theo-
logical spirit, 299.
Asylum, privilege of, 289.
Augsburg, Confession of, its con-
cluding declaration, 332.
Augustine, S., his view of miracles
as evidential, 139.

B.

BACON, Lord, on religious contro-
versy, 11; his view of missions,
356.

Barbarians readily admitted by the
Church, 281; mode of conversion,
286; its true causes, 288.
Barbaric Codes, show the influence
of Christianity, 284.

Becket habitually performed harvest
work, 300.

Belief, Christian, standard of, in
Scripture and Creeds, 31.
Biography, Religious, importance of,

228.

Bishops, popular election of, 280;
by royal mandate, 285; their
beneficial influence, 283, 288.
Bossuet, his argument against Pro-
testantism lies equally against
Christianity, 11.

Brahmanism, stationary, 26, 27, 29;

its doctrine of Absorption, 30.
Buckle, Henry T., his obligations to
Condorcet, 71; his views on civi-
lization, 146; on theology, 208;
confounds asceticism with self-
restraint, 299.
Buddhism, 26, 27;

once a mis-
sionary religion, 29, 363; extin-
guished caste, 30; favours Mon-
asticism, 297, 298.

Butler, Archer, on doctrinal develop-
ment, 45.

Butler, Bishop, 14, 20, 188, 212,
219.

C.

CALVIN, his doctrine of personal
assurance, 331.

Casuistry, its moral value, 166.
Catholicism, Medieval, its declen-
sion, 326.

Causes distinguished from occasions
of events, 134.

Chance equivalent to ignorance of
design, 77.

Chivalry, its relation to Medieval
Christianity, 311; its origin, ib.
Christ, Jesus, perennial influence of
His example, 35, 334.
Christianity, most vigorous in the
most civilized regions, 3; a factor
in civilization; 8, 152, 308; a
fact of long standing, 9; its dura-
bility ascertainable, 23; its anti-
quity, 28; an historical and docu-
mentary religion, 34, 64, 212;
the religion of progress, 51, 220;
its perpetuity a doctrinal tenet,
52, 56, 57, 264, 379; its assumed
failure, 58; as being a phase of
religion, 60; not a necessary
result only of antecedents, 144,
180; its progress, how far super-
natural, 145, 265; natural, 162;
limited, 169, 171; in advance of,
yet co-existent with, civilization,
172, 242; importance of its ideal
standard, 173; did not originate
in a moral protest, 169; not
eclectic, 177; is not a new code of
morals, 257; has not declined in
moral effect, 175; its part in ad-
vancing morals, 170, 176; its
slow progress not due to feeble-
ness, 188, 373; has survived
changes of opinion, 203; theories
of its origin, 261, 275; true
causes of its success, 262, 266,
268, 273; its moral power, 269,
272, 276; its services wrongly
attributed to positive institutions,
274; founded on a sense of sin,
276; its early influence on litera-
ture, 281; intellectual services in
Middle Ages, 193; its politi-
cal affinities, 359; whether demo-
cratic, 360; internal evidence of
its permanence, 375, 376; its
benevolence, 378.

Christians, moral excellence of the
first, 263.
Church, The, temporal supremacy
of, 185.

Circumstances, their coincidence ad-
mits of no law, 129.
Civilization, multiform, not a mere
intellectual advance, 146, 147;

answers to the whole nature of
man, 149; difference of Ancient
and Modern, 148.
Classicism, its effects on Christianity,
346, 348.

Communism, early view of, in the
Church, 187.

Confucius, his view of Providence,
125; of religion, 178, 257.
Consciousness, testimony of, analo-
gous to perception, 106.
Constantine established Christianity,
277; its consequences, 278.
Controversy a sign of religious acti-
vity, 11.

Conversion, power of, an element
in religious vitality, 26, 253,
362; essential to Christianity,
363.

Creeds, how connected with Scrip-
ture, 37, 38; independent form
of, 358.

Cromwell, Oliver, cause of his death,
131.

Crusades, The, criticisms of, 304;

really defensive, ib.; their services
to civilization, 305; their spiritual
import, 306; exhibit the heroic
type of Christianity, 307; later
Crusades, 315.

Cycles, theory of, in history, 131.

D.

DEDUCTION, its character as an in-
strument of proof, 215, 216.
Design, Argument from, not identical
with order, 22.
Development, Theory of, its influ-
ence on the perpetuity of Christian
doctrine, 42; dubiously admitted,
ib.; rests on authority, 43; really
an historical process, 44; Rational-
istic theory of, 46.
Discovery in Natural Science a
species of Revelation, 217.
Distance of time necessary to clear
judgment, 9.

Dominicans, their humane efforts,
366.

Durability, test of, in religions, 26.
Duration a relative idea, 23.

E.

EASTERN CHURCH, its failings, 170;
its subordination to the Greek
Emperors, 285; its Monachism,
298; its future, 372.
Effectual Call, sense of, in theology,
101.
Epicureanism, modern, traceable in
the view of Laws of Nature,
115.

Erasmus, his complaints, 346.
Error, slow extension of, 15.
Establishments, Church, usefulness
of, 357, 358.

Evangelical Preparation, truth and
importance of, 144.
Evil, existence of, explained by
partial knowledge, 20; nature
of moral and physical, 245; mode
of its extinction, 246.

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H.

HEGELIANISM, its essence, 353.
History sometimes confounded with
biography, 135.

Hospitals, a Christian institution,
271.

Humanists at the Reformation, 347;
their servility, 354.

I.

IDEAS gain credence from repetition,

61.

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