sentiment; it has its root in the truth of things; The 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 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.
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."— Table-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.
ADMINISTRATION, Divine, harmony of, 127.
Admiration has a personal basis,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
HEGELIANISM, its essence, 353. History sometimes confounded with biography, 135.
Hospitals, a Christian institution, 271.
Humanists at the Reformation, 347; their servility, 354.
IDEAS gain credence from repetition,
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